Today’s society places a lot of pressure on schools, teachers, and students to improve test scores.This paper discusses the possibility of using mathematical manipulatives to improve student testscores and students’ attitudes towards mathematics. Forty-three Grade 2 students with age rangesbetween six and eight from a rural town in Saskatchewan were selected. They were dividedrandomly into two groups: the treatment group (n=22) and the control group (n=21) and theirpre- and post-test scores compared. Findings supported the hypothesis that students in thetreatment group who received the math intervention obtained higher post-test scores incomparison to their classmates in the control group.
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Robert Liggett (2017) studied this question.