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Special Agents of Δ Academy

Thursday 1:45-3:00 Session: N17 3rd - 5th Level Ballroom C Room

Number Line to 10,000,000 and Other Math

Manipulatives

Jim Franklin is a special education teacher at Elm Street Elementary School in Rome,
Georgia. During the 2011-12 school year, Jim needed some new rounding

strategies/interventions that had been successfully implemented by other teachers.

He asked math specialists in his school and searched for ideas on the Internet. There

were not a whole lot of options. he only saw blocks, dry erase markers and boards,

and number lines. Other than those options, paper and pencil were the last resort.
Jim could not use a number line above the large dry- erase board in his lesson

because it only went to 100; his students were rounding numbers greater than 100.

Although all four options have been used for years and have had some success, he

wanted math manipulatives that could make an immediate impact on educational

performance and not be considered a “toy” by his students. Then, Jim had an idea…
Google "Rounding Math Manipulatives and join Jim as he demonstrates his number

line to help students round numbers up to 10,000,000. View a variety of math

manipulatives and learn differentiation strategies and tips that address the standards

of fractions, decimals, money, elapsed time, capacity, and weight.

Jim Franklin

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