S11 Geometric solids

Description

Introduction to different geometric solids

Purpose

To learn different geometric solids

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DIY

S12 Geometric shapes

Description

Make their own shapes

Purpose

To learn making different shapes

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Buy

(geoboard, plastic band)

S13 Geometric Insets

Description

Trace and learn shapes

Purpose

To learn different shapes

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DIY

(cardboard, pins as knobs)

S14 Geometric Shapes

Description

Present shapes & arrange each shape from largest to smallest

Purpose

To learn geometric forms and awareness of gradations

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DIY

(balsa wood & cardboard)

S15 Color Tablets

Description

Color matching & arrange tablets in gradation of colors

Purpose

Develop color appreciation and sensitivity to the harmony of color

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DIY

(paint color samples, cardboard/any hard backing)

S16 Button Game

Description

Sort & count colored buttons

Purpose

Differentiate between colors

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DIY

(tray with slots, color buttons)

S17 Naming the color

Description

Present color circles with name to child

Purpose

To associate the name with the color it represents

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DIY

(cardboard & labels)

S18 Cylinder Insets

Description

Block A: same height, different diameter
Block B: same diameter length decreases
Block C: diameter decreases, length decreases
Block D: diameter increases, length decreases
Remove cylinders & replace by blocks, then do 2, 3 & 4 blocks together and eventually do exercise blindfold.

Purpose

Visual and tactile education of differing dimensions.

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Constructive Playthings search on “cylinder blocks”

S19 Pink Tower

Description

Ten solid wooden cubes varying in size from 1 cubic centimeter to 1 cubic decimeter.

Purpose

Visual and muscular perception of dimension leading to an abstract understanding of size.
Perfection of hand movements.
Preparation for mathematics.
Preparation for cube root.

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DIY

DIY. Made from cardboards & wrap with pink art paper.

S20 Brown Stairs

Description

Ten, brown, wooden prisms all the same length but varying height and width from 1 centimeter to 10 centimeters (or one decimeter squared). The end faces represent the squares of the numbers one through ten.

Purpose

Visual and muscular perception of dimension.
Demonstrates the relationship and difference between the squares of the numbers 1 to 10.

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DIY

Made from cardboards & wrap with brown art paper.