A board or tray strewn with sand in which numbers, letters, diagrams, etc., can be traced and erased. Cf. sandboard, n. 1, sand-table n. (a) at sand…

A small stick, pin, etc. used for pointing out the letters to children learning to read; a pointer.

A stick used as a pointer.

= fescue, n. (see quots.).

A rod used (esp. by a teacher or lecturer) to point to something on a blackboard, map, diagram, etc.

A board or tray sprinkled with sand in which numbers, letters, diagrams, etc., can be traced and then obliterated, often used as a teaching aid.

A card marked with one or more letters of the alphabet, esp. as used in literacy instruction.

a visual aid for use in object lessons.

North American. Education. Facts, objects, and material from everyday life used as teaching aids.

a length of film bearing a sequence of still frames.

illustrative matter designed to supplement written or spoken information; spec. in Education with reference to pictures, models, films, etc., as an…

(see quot. 1945).

a sheet of flannel to which (paper or cloth) cutouts will adhere, used as a teaching aid.

a mechanical device for giving instruction in the form of a teaching programme which allows a pupil to progress according to his response to…

North American. Education. In teaching or learning arithmetic: a physical object which may be manipulated to help demonstrate a concept or…

A quantity of printed matter on a specified topic for students, etc.