That's your opinion, mine is that yours is extremely uneducated. Besides teaching how to be organized and meticulous and it involving manipulative materials (w

That's your opinion, mine is that yours is extremely uneducated. Besides teaching how to be organized and meticulous and it involving manipulative materials (which happens to be something you should do in education), it being an aide to study any kind of material, and providing you with the essential skills to do Maths by yourself using a pen in the future, either you develop fine motor skills at that age or you won't. It's as simple as that.