Abstract
Manipulative materials is one of equipment that can be used for teaching mathematics concept to students at elementary schools. Hopefully the students have the skill to compute mathematics by fun. This research used to teach concept of addition and subtraction in grade five at public. Elementary Schools in Kecamatan Mandiangin Koto Selayan Bukittinggi. For collecting data, the respondents were given a test after learning the subject matter. The data processing was used the hypotesis test o mean of population by using software Minitab. Based on the data analysis this experiment show that (p<0,05) which means the difference of result of the test was significant. It concluded that the result of test of experiment group is better that control class.
