MathTabla Labs
Drag it. Count it. Watch the math click.
These are the playful, tactile experiments behind MathTabla: Cuisenaire® rods for systems, rods for fractions, and algebra tiles that make symbolic math feel like moving pieces on a table.
Choose your lab
The fun part of the app
Rough edges are welcome here — the point is to feel the math before it turns into notation.
Forward rectangle lab
Base-Ten Area Model
Build 22 x 21 with base-ten blocks, move the same partial products into the box method, then run the rectangle backward for division.
Reverse rectangle lab
Base-Ten Division
Start with 84 as eight tens and four ones, use the known 7-side, and discover the missing quotient through regrouping.
Layout sketch tool
Base-Ten Division Layout Playground
Drag labels, rails, regions, tens, and ones into a rough division setup, then copy the JSON snapshot so the real model can match it.
Prototype rebuild
Quadratic Factoring Box
Split the middle term, build the factoring box, and move the shared factors into the row and column rails. This is the recovered CAMT prototype rebuilt for the web.
Area model lab
Algebra Tiles
Set the factors, build the product grid, click-count every tile, then watch the middle terms combine into the trinomial. This is the hands-on algebra playground.
Equation systems lab
Systems with Cuisenaire® rods
Use Cuisenaire® rods to compare two relationships, align unknowns, and see where the equations balance. It is really systems of equations made tangible.
Rod fraction lab
Fractions with Cuisenaire® rods
Build fraction sums with Cuisenaire® rods instead of flat bars alone: choose a whole, compare rod lengths, and make equivalent pieces snap into meaning.
Common unit lab
Fraction Graphic Organizer
Race denominator rows to find the first shared unit, move the landing groups into scale factors, then build equivalent fractions before adding.
Composable common unit lab
Fraction Graphic Organizer V2
Work the same common-unit organizer through smaller engines: denominator race, scale-factor mapping, common-unit addition, reduction, and mixed-number conversion.
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