Editing Embodiment Principle (section)

====Learning through manipulatives====
Manupulatives are objects, external to the students body, that can help learners understand a new idea by offloading the knowledge on the object and relating them to more familiar experiences. For example, when reading stories set in different scenes (farm, space), learners learnt better from the support of toys (barn tractor) as it enganced recall of the stories. Learners who received the physical manipulation learnt better than without <ref>Glenberg, A. M., Gutierrez, T., Levin, J. R., Japuntich, S., & Kaschak, M. P. (2004). Activity and imagined activity can enhance young children’s reading comprehension. Journal of Educational Psychology, 96(3), 424–436. </ref>

Similarly, learners also use "currency notes" while solving puzzles or learning addition and subtraction. The goal of learning manipulatives is to help understand the analogies between abstract concepts (addition and subtraction) and meaningful objects (give and take of money) so that students can [[transfer]] their learning into new situations