@futurebird I went to an elementary school that heavily emphasized arts and crafts, which was torture for me because I have always struggled to do tasks with my hands where precision matters.
I was so happy to largely leave arts and crafts behind after that, and I think incorporating it into math class probably would have been enough to turn me off the subject.
I do think that physical models can be really illuminating, that much more when they're interactive, but constructing such models can be really difficult/frustrating for some students (not sure what proportion).
