The educational tool is for children ages three and up. By playing with the pieces, children learn about shapes and their constituent parts - halves, quarters, eights. In higher grades of primary school, they then learn to express these in abstract form using fractions.
The product includes three key properties:
- Each part (whole, half, etc.) is made out of one solid piece!
- All components are of the same colour (natural wood), which mean that the parts really do make up one single whole.
- The child takes each piece from its own space on the board. He can count on a tray, how many unites he needs to make a whole cube (two halves, four quarters, ect.)
Children learn by playing on how many different ways they can construct a cube; one whole, one half and two quarters, etc.
We highly recomend this educational tool for children with special needs.
With manipulation children adopt substantial ideas about the whole (cube) and its parts; half, quarter, eight.
