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This is an absolutely beautiful set of blocks that will build your child’s math skills and provide a great challenge! Pattern cards of increasing difficulty are provided, with the object of this math toy to match the blocks to the design on the card. There are a total of 40 different pattern cards…
This is an absolutely beautiful set of blocks that will build your child’s math skills and provide a great challenge! Pattern cards of increasing difficulty are provided, with the object of this math toy to match the blocks to the design on the card. There are a total of 40 different pattern cards and 40 wood blocks in 10 different colors. This game helps develop math skills like sorting, matching, and symmetry. And with such an attractive, well-made set, each finished pattern is a work of art!
Origami is a fun way to work on geometric and spatial reasoning, and even help develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. This particular kit has easy to follow instructions for the different creations, along with fold marks on the papers for easy folding. It comes with everything you need to create 40 origami animals…
Origami is a fun way to work on geometric and spatial reasoning, and even help develop fine motor skills and hand-eye coordination. This particular kit has easy to follow instructions for the different creations, along with fold marks on the papers for easy folding. It comes with everything you need to create 40 origami animals– most of the paper included is animal print, with a few papers that are simply patterned, and quite a few stickers for your finished products! The projects included range from beginner level to advanced, so kids of all ages and experience can enjoy the set.
This is a great game to help develop visual perception and spatial reasoning. In Ready, Set, Silhouette children must find silhouette cards to match object cards. The game includes two sets of cards—one with pictures on them and one with silhouettes on them…
This is a great game to help develop visual perception and spatial reasoning. In Ready, Set, Silhouette children must find silhouette cards to match object cards. The game includes two sets of cards—one with pictures on them and one with silhouettes on them. The cards are quite sturdy and hold up well. Each card includes several objects, offering an extra challenge; not only does it require finding silhouettes that match the objects, but you must also rotate the card to match the pictures. Many of the cards have some of the same objects to make it more complex– just because you found a card with a bicycle on it does not mean it’s the correct card! There are quite a few cards in the set, so if you need to start more simply, only give your child a few matching sets to start with and then increase the number of sets as you go. The game can be played by a kid on their own, or by a group.
A tessellation is an arrangement of shapes closely fitted together in a pattern with no gaps or overlapping. In this project, your child can explore different shapes and combinations of shapes to determine which ones tessellate. The possibilities are endless here for creating tessellating designs!
A tessellation is an arrangement of shapes closely fitted together in a pattern with no gaps or overlapping. In this project, your child can explore different shapes and combinations of shapes to determine which ones tessellate. The possibilities are endless here for creating tessellating designs!
In this activity, your child gets a chance to play architect, creating blueprints of your own house or apartment. Doing so, they can practice measurement as well as ratios and scale.
In this activity, your child gets a chance to play architect, creating blueprints of your own house or apartment. Doing so, they can practice measurement as well as ratios and scale. They will record dimensions of walls, windows, and doors and mark their locations. Then, using graph paper, they will draw them to scale.
Send your child on the hunt for specific shapes and angles, whether around the house, in the yard, at the park, or even while out running errands.
Send your child on the hunt for specific shapes and angles, whether around the house, in the yard, at the park, or even while out running errands. The more they are able to contextualize shapes in the real world, the more comfortable they will be when practicing fundamental geometric skills.
As you build forts with your child using cardboard, you can focus on design and planning, weight, measurement, and working with shapes.
As you build forts with your child using cardboard, you can focus on design and planning, weight, measurement, and working with shapes.
In this activity, you will be demonstrating the types of shapes that sink and those that float. Your child can have fun sculpting boats with clay while also learning about displacement.
In this activity, you will be demonstrating the types of shapes that sink and those that float. Your child can have fun sculpting bathtub boats with clay while also learning about displacement. Splash around while soaking up plenty of math principles.
The Tuck family all have eternal life after drinking magic water from a spring, and they roam about trying to go unnoticed. But ten-year-old Winnie finds out their secret and must decide between living as a mortal or an immortal. Things are further complicated when a stranger also finds out about the Tucks’ secret…
The Tuck family all have eternal life after drinking magic water from a spring, and they roam about trying to go unnoticed. But ten-year-old Winnie finds out their secret and must decide between living as a mortal or an immortal. Things are further complicated when a stranger also finds out about the Tucks’ secret and wants to sell the magic spring water. This classic book actually has a surprising amount of mathematics within it. There is quite a bit of geometry vocabulary—fixed point, curves, angles, tangent, arc, square, solid, narrowing dimension, axis, acres, edges, and center. Have your child take notice of other places that math is found or referenced, related to geometry or otherwise. Also, keep track of references to wheels, cycles, etc.; how does the wheel allusion tie in with the story line?
This book uses U.S. weather to cover area, elapsed time, data, and graphing…
This book uses U.S. weather to cover area, elapsed time, data, and graphing.
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