Daniel Walter highlights the potentials of digital media and examines how elementary school children utilize tablet applications and their physical counterparts. He assesses the usage patterns identified through clinical interviews in terms of overcoming counting-based problem-solving strategies. The author demonstrates that the potentials of digital media are not always intuitively and adequately utilized by learners, but can only be fully exploited through appropriate tasks and prompts. Furthermore, he identifies both beneficial and negatively evaluable usage patterns in both physical and virtual materials.