The impact of virtual manipulatives on student achievement in integer addition and subtraction

Authors

J. Bolyard
Patricia S. Moyer-Packenham, Utah State UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Paper

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education

Volume

2

Publication Date

11-2006

First Page

879

Last Page

881

Abstract

The study investigated the impact of virtual manipulatives on student achievement in integer addition and subtraction. Participants were 99 sixth-grade students in six mathematics classes. Results showed that students made significant achievement gains in both integer addition and subtraction using three different virtual manipulatives. The general conclusion is that the virtual manipulative environments supported students’ learning of these concepts.

Recommended Citation

Bolyard, J., & Moyer-Packenham, P. (2006, November). The impact of virtual manipulatives on student achievement in integer addition and subtraction. In S. Alatorre, J. L. Cortina, M. Saiz, & A. Mendez (Eds.). Proceedings of the 28th annual meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (Vol. 2, pp. 879-881), Merida, Mexico. http://www.pmena.org/2006/cd/index.htm