When Autumn was 2, I found a great set of math manipulatives in a bag at a garage sale for $3. That was when I started my collection. I knew I wanted to homeschool, so I just started keeping an eye out. My youngest is now entering 2nd grade and my math manipulatives have been used a lot over the last 9 years (beginning when my oldest was in PK3). Here are the manipulatives I've found most helpful (and that I would buy at retail price if I hadn't gotten them at a garage sale).... 1. Unifix Blocks A set of 100 is very helpful. I store them in a tupperware, rather than stressing about getting them all back in color coded stacks of 10 each time we use them. I had the other type of cube at one point that look like this: But, I found them harder to link together and I wasn't as pleased with them, so I gave them away. 2. Scale I found this at a garage sale and had no idea how often I would need it in the future for m...