MANIPULATIVE MATERIALS

When learning to measure in mathematics classes, it is important that students have the real manipulative material that serves to measure in the real life. With this kind of tools they can play, experiment, investigate and find out a lot of facts, like needing an instrument if they want to measure some magnitude, the necessity of a unit of measurement... 

There are a lot of manipulative materials that teachers can bring to the classes, depending on what magnitude students are learning:

Length: 

Ruler

Meter

Capacity

Recipients of different sizes

Time

Analog clock

Digital clock

Calendar 

Money

Fake coins and notes

Weight

Balance

Weight meter