Math Games and Manipulatives

Every since I was a kid I have loved cleaning and organizing stuff. Today I cleaned out and organized math materials. I kind of just stuck stuff in the organizers with no rhyme or reason last year. So since I received lots of games and manipulative at the fraction workshop this summer, I decided to reorganize! 


The first step to my process is to get everything out of the space. Next I sort through and group things. Lastly I put them in tubs or baskets and place back into the original space. I arrange and rearrange to get the most of my space. I do this with everything: closets, shoes, junk drawers, dresser drawers, cabinets. You get my drift.

Anyways. I started by dumping everything onto the floor and 2 hours later I had this! I labeled each tub. I just noticed i still have the post it note label on the clock basket. That will have to change.

It took forever because I cleaned out the pattern blocks. Here it goes OCD at it's finest. I have both wooden and plastic pattern blocks and over the years they've gotten mixed up. So. I sorted each shape into wooden and plastic. Then divided the wooden among four buckets equally. And the plastic between two buckets. Again equally. So now each bucket has the same amount of each color. I know right. I'm weird.

More pictures of my organized classroom to come.