Description
A world full of shapes.
The translucent colored geometric shapes in 6 bright colors are designed to provide basic knowledge about the relationship between regular and irregular shapes. The inner and outer pieces of the puzzle match by color and attributes; for example, the orange pentagons each have 5 sides; the irregular shape fits within the regular shape to reinforce the understanding that both shapes are still pentagons, although they look different.
The set can be used to show that regular shapes have equal angles and sides; irregular shapes can have angles and sides of any value. The mathematical extension of this process is that the sum of the interior angles of a regular shape will always equal the sum of the interior angles of the corresponding irregular shape.
An ideal resource to learn about the names of shapes and their properties, as well as to work with mathematical termssuch as side, point, curve, interior, exterior, plane, 2D, solid, 3D, angle and symmetry. It can also be used for shape and color recognition, color mixing, as stencils for drawing and coloring, as shape matching puzzles, and for research on a light panel.
The shapes are made of 3mm acrylic and each comes with a 2.5mm hole at the top balance point so they can be hung against a window or outdoors to create shades of colorful shapes.
Supports the following learning areas:
– Mathematics: shape and space
– Understanding the world – color
– Communication and language: reasoning
From 3 years old.
