Place Value Flip Stand - Valuable for Reinforcing Place Value
Written: Jul 04 '09
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Pros: easy to use, durable, effective
Cons: none really
The Bottom Line: The Bottom Line is this product can make learning a skill like place value easier.
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| KMINER's Full Review: Place Value Flip Stand |
My job requires me to be very creative and find ways to help children learn new strategies to be successful in their academic areas - in particular in the areas of reading, writing, and math.
This job comes with a small amount every year that can be used to order materials for the children on my caseload to use, and so every Fall I place an order after looking through catalogs. When I saw the Place Value Flip Stand I knew it was something that I needed.
I teach children with Learning Disabilities in a mostly inclusion setting - meaning I go into their regular classrooms and work with them on the skills and standards the regular education teachers are working on. The students are expected to work on grade level material, but often have various difficulties that prohibit them from accessing, participating and/or recalling the information the way a child without a disability may be able to. A lot of the students on my caseload additionally have accommodations and learning styles that state that the child can have additional visual aides or manipulative materials.
I bought the Place Value Flip Stand to serve children I work with in grades 3, 4, and 5. Each grade level teaches the skill of Place Value, though to different degrees. I hoped this flip stand would be able to work with multiple age levels of children, and provide them some success and independence.
Nuts & Bolts
The Place Value Flip Stand itself is a durable, spiral bound book that can open at the bottom to support itself. (sort of like a long pyramid) Each place value is written in bold black lettering on the base under the set of flippable numerals. Each set of numerals rest side by side but are able to be flipped and manipulated independently of each other. Each set of numerals are colored slightly different than the one next to it, but with compatible colors. (the picture this site provides of the product is very accurate to what I have) The entire flip stand is very durable and I've had it for 2 years now in my classroom with no signs of wear and tear. I paid about $20.00 for it through an educational catalog.
One side of the Place Value Flip Stand has the place value from one to millions, so 7 numerals. A comma is located with the millions and thousands groupings of numerals, as the children would see in their regular writing and reading of place value. The opposite side of the stand has the place value from decimals to thousandths up to the thousands, this time with the appropriately needed decimal and comma where needed. Each set of flip numerals are printed on the colored flip paper in bold black lettering on both sides and includes numerals 0-9.
My Use
I use this Place Value Flip Stand in a variety of ways. At times I need to pull a small group of students to my room, and we can use the stand to reinforce place value skills and names without me having to go up to the board and re-write the entire place value chart. This stand is hands-on and I've been able to have it on a table with a group of about 6 children and we can all see it well, pass it around, and the like.
The children use this stand differently depending on the nature of their disability, and what I love most about it is how this one product can solve a lot of issues they face. Some of the students know their place values, they just have difficulty completing worksheets where they have to spell out the words - and so the Place Value Flip Stand serves as a way for them to check the correct spelling. Other students need to actually manipulate and flip - meaning they look at the numeral written on their worksheet and recreate it with by flipping to the correct numerals and make the numeral they see on the page. This helps them have a concrete way to check the value of an overall numeral or individual place values asked. It also reminds them that some places will need a "zero" as a place holder.
In terms of group instruction I usually have the Place Value Flip Stand in my hands and create some numerals that touch on a variety of needed skills and try and keep the children's attention by purposely making mistakes in my flipping. I also have the children each take turns creating a numeral on the flip stand and then the other students have to answer a question about it.
One of the additional reasons I really get a lot of use out of this product is that I can take it into the classrooms as well. There are always students who do not have a disability that struggle with skills like place value. Part of the inclusion model that we provide at my school is to group other low performing students to be in the same homeroom as my students with disabilities. This allows those struggling regular education children to also use the materials and services. I often bring this Place Value Flip Stand into the classroom and do a mini-lesson on how it might be used. Then I leave it on the back table and any child needing (or wanting) to use it can take it to their seat or sit in a small group at the back table and use it.
Overall
I feel that I get a ton of value out of the Place Value Flip Stand. I can use it with 3 grade levels of students, and it's one of the few concrete things I have found that is simple and easy to use. Additionally it is so durable that I really feel like we have gotten our money's worth out of this purchase.
Recommended:
Yes
Amount Paid (US$): 20.00
Type of Toy: Educational
Age Range of Child: Kids to Teens
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