Features:

  • These plastic bears come in three sizes, three weights and six colors
  • Help children understand abstract math concepts with hands-on bear manipulatives
  • Bears are proportionally weighted to use on a balance for measurement
  • 96-piece set includes 24 Papa, 24 Mama and 48 Baby Bear counters, storage container, and activity guide
  • Ideal for ages 3+
Excellent Hands on Learning Fun!

These are very standard counters that you'll find in most preschool/kindergarten classrooms. Great for teaching sorting, patterning, counting, sequencing, colors, and all kinds of other skills! I wish they'd come out with more counters that are of the different sizes in a series like the Bear Family. My 5 year old likes to pretend there's a Daddy Bear, Mommy, etc. I bought these with the patterning cards and we've had fun practicing her skills together. I think some children will have fun playing with these bears or lining them up on their own. My daughter is not really an independent learner, so she prefers that I sit with her for this activity.

I used those little bears as tokens for training my ...

I used those little bears as tokens for training my son to poop in the toilet. He could pick one little, medium or big bear whenever he did so. As you can imagine, he had a growing collection until he felt he did not need those bears anymore. Now that they do not serve as tokens anymore, I use it with both of my sons to sort size and colours, reproduce patterns and count.

The large size bear weighs 12g, the medium 8g and the small 4g. Using these in a college math class, and the students love them

I am using these in a college level statistics class for teaching sampling, central limit theorem and standard deviation. My students actually enjoy the hands on experience with these bears, in fact some of them used them in grade school. I was surprised by how much they enjoy them and have a more concrete understanding from using them. I have them take samples, and then weigh the samples and calculate the mean and standard deviation of the various samples , it provides a concrete example of how standard deviation varies. Plotting those means then shows them how the central limit theorem works. The large size bear weighs 12g, the medium 8g and the small 4g.

Educational, fun, super durable

My kindergarten students always loved working with these bears- they were wonderful for sorting, making patterns, and learning early math concepts. I got them for my toddler and they are a huge hit. We practice scooping them, using tongs to pick them up, lining them up, making 'families' with the Papa, Mama, and Baby bears, and talking about the colors. I also got the corresponding colored bowls and we practice sorting them by color, or just using the bowls to pour the bears back into the container. I love that these are weighed so you could also use them on a scale, and the different sizes are really cute.

Great multi-use, educational toy

These bears are great learning tools for children. I worked with preschool aged children for 10 years and these were always in the classroom. I recently purchased these for my 2 year old son and he enjoys playing with them. He uses them for imaginative play and color sorting. We are working on sorting by size and counting, but he is more interested in color sorting. I will also use these in the future for teaching him patterns. This size container has enough bears that more than one child could use these at the same time to do sorting or pattern work. There are three different sizes that are easy to tell apart. The red and the orange are fairly similar in color, but you are able to tell them apart. Great purchase for anyone wanting to do color, size, patterns, counting, etc with small children.

Great Value and will last a long time.

I could take one star off because stepping on them hurts just as bad as stepping on a lego, but that wouldn't be fair. My three year old loves these bears. She had a little trouble distinguishing between the red and orange bears as the orange bears are very red-orange, but now that she's had them on month or two, she knows the difference. She will sort them by size and color. We make patterns and use the Learning Resources Sorting Bowls for sorting by color. I love that they are weighted so that we can later bring out the scale and this can grow as a math manipulative with her.

Awesome resource

These are pretty straight forward, if you are looking for a manipulative for counting, sorting, weighing, comparing, graphing, etc these bears are super cute and a great resource. There are six different colors of bears: purple, blue, red, orange, yellow and green, and with those colors there are three different sizes of bears, small (baby bears), medium, and large. These are made of hard plastic, which I think are great (stays clean, doesn't pick up lint, dog hair, etc) just mentioning this because some manipulatives out there are softer like the density of an eraser.

Beary Fun product!

These bears are fantastic for teaching math whether it be basic counting, sorting by color, size or weight. There are 4 different sizes and each size is a different weight so there are a lot of math lessons you can do with this. When not is teaching mode they are simply fun to play with. I don't Home School in the technical sense but I do supplemental teaching at home so I'm always looking for new items to use in our lessons. My kids love these and they especially like have access to some of the same things that they use at school. I'm very happy with this product the quality is good the bears are colorful and the sizes and the weight differences mean a good variety of exercises can be performed. I highly recommend this product.

the loved counting them

I homeschool and let me just say the kids gave these bears a A++ today! the loved counting them, sorting them, lining them up by size. Making patterns with them. I was a little bummed that I couldn't string them for string patterns but the kids loved them anyways! I would recommend them!

Amazing in So Many Ways

I remember these counting bears from when I was in elementary school. I loved using these bears to count, add, subtract, categorize, and even play with. I wanted my daughter to have the same experience so I purchased these for her. You should have seen the look on her face when she saw these bears -- she was so excited! She's two years old and she was able to notice the differences amongst all of the bears. These bears are great quality and the colors are very vibrant. I have to add, I watched her closely while playing with these because they can be a choking hazard for any child. That's the only "negative" thing I have to say.

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