Online Math Manipulatives - Pattern Blocks

With our new math curriculum students are often asked to have A LOT of "stuff," ranging from index cards to fraction dice to pattern blocks.  I try to be clever in coming up with ways to save on the amount of "stuff" I have to purchase and what not...index cards were sort of hard to avoid.  That said, I have found solutions for dice by using the following website: http://goo.gl/SMTM, which happens to create virtual dice.  This is perfect for projecting on the SMARTBoard or for students to create on their own computer.

The virtual dice led me to wonder if there were also virtual pattern block shapes, since our curriculum uses them often for comparing fractions.  Thank goodness for Google.  Within minutes I stumbled upon a great resource through McGraw Hill at: http://goo.gl/HNEh

Check out this short video of our class utilizing this great...FREE resource: