Product Overview
The Enhanced Points of Departure series provides ready-to-use lesson starters, exploration prompts, and guided investigations that help teachers introduce, extend, and reinforce foundational mathematics concepts using hands-on manipulatives. This set includes 11 English-language titles. Each book focuses on a specific classroom material and supports number sense, spatial reasoning, patterning, problem solving, and mathematical communication. Suitable for centers, small groups, or whole-class instruction.
French versions are available separately.
Includes 11 English Titles:
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Enhanced Points of Departure with Attribute Blocks
Activities using Attribute Blocks to build skills in sorting, classifying, comparing attributes, and early logical reasoning. -
Enhanced Points of Departure with Base Ten Blocks
Lessons that model place value, regrouping, multi-digit operations, and decimal concepts using Base Ten Blocks. -
Enhanced Points of Departure with Color Tiles
Hands-on investigations exploring symmetry, perimeter, area, patterns, and number relationships with Color Tiles. -
Enhanced Points of Departure with Deci-Rods
Activities that strengthen proportional reasoning, linear measurement, fractional understanding, and number patterns with Deci-Rods. -
Enhanced Points of Departure with Geoboards
Explorations in geometric shapes, area, coordinate concepts, and transformations using elastic band constructions on Geoboards. -
Enhanced Points of Departure with Geoblocks
Tasks that promote 3-D spatial reasoning, volume comparisons, structure-building, and shape composition using Geoblocks. -
Enhanced Points of Departure with Hundreds Board
Activities building number sense, skip counting, operational patterns, and place-value skills on the Hundreds Board. -
Enhanced Points of Departure with Interlocking Cubes
Investigations covering counting, equivalence, early measurement, patterning, and 3-D construction with Interlocking Cubes. -
Enhanced Points of Departure with Pattern Blocks
Lessons exploring symmetry, tessellations, angles, and geometric relationships through engaging Pattern Block tasks. -
Enhanced Points of Departure with Pentominoes
Spatial puzzles and tiling challenges that develop visualization, rotation/reflection strategies, and problem-solving skills. -
Enhanced Points of Departure with Tangrams
Activities using Tangrams to explore shape composition, symmetry, geometric reasoning, and introductory fraction concepts.