If it's up to me, I'd say go with the traditional materials and let the child use ALL of his senses in learning. But when the present generation seems eons away from how we were as kids, I say just go with what you see works.
My sharing today is on a great site ( ooopppss guilty as charged) on Virtual base ten blocks.
Anyways the computer program might give you creative ideas on how to this with your kids the 'tactile' way.
click on the picture to be redirected to the page. =)
