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The area of mathematics is one of the most socially valued, due to its instrumental character (Talis, 2014). From education policies, a lot of emphases is placed on their teaching, being one of the main areas of the curriculum. However, its abstract component places it as one of the most difficult areas for students (Sotos, 2016). With a view to reducing the learning difficulties of students in this area of knowledge, manipulable materials arise to help, advise and decode those eminently abstract contents (Gairín-Sallán & Fernández-Amigo, 2015). In fact, the use of manipulable materials is not unique to the area of mathematics, but also takes on great prominence in the rest of the areas of knowledge, as they arise as facilitators of learning. Through manipulation, the child explores, experiments, learns and understands the reality around him, and by extension, the contents (Novo-Martín, 2018).