Lego is hugely popular among most kids, but it looks like the pieces can actually be used as a maths aid!
Alycia Zimmerman, a 3rd-grade teacher in New York, uses them to explain fractions, squares and other mathematical concepts.
“In the classroom, the tiny bricks are now my favorite possibility-packed math manipulative,” she writes in an article for Scholastic that goes more into depth about these bricks’ potential uses.
This is a super idea, as it increases the likelihood of the children engaging!
NZME.
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