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The Importance of Math Manipulatives: A Math Playground

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The participants were given several math problems and asked to solve them using the fewest steps possible. The researchers found that the style of drawing and mental model used to solve the problem was highly predictive of whether the student was able to find the faster way to solve the problem or not. Gros et al.,

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