Learning Resources Soft Foam Geometric Shapes (LER6120) Rating :
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
Shapely
By Melanie Gilbert
These soft foam shapes are a perfect tactile tool to help explain 3-dimensional concepts to your young learner. The 12 foam shapes give them a real feel for how a square drawn on a piece of paper is way different from a cube, or how a circle is different from a sphere.
Concepts that are obvious to the adult mind are not always so to the emerging learner. Manipulatives are an especially good way to illustrate these higher level, dimensional concepts. Their look and feel also allows learners to visually count - versus decipher from 2-D drawings - the faces, edges and vertexes of each object.
The 12 shapes are pretty standard, but I especially liked the inclusion of both the square pyramid contrasting with that of the triangular prism which also has a square bottom. Seeing these two shapes together, in real space and time, allowed my second grader to begin to grasp complex shape differences and formation.
These are light-weight but sturdily constructed and brightly-colored shapes. And the plastic bucket is a handy container. I highly recommend adding this and the Learning Resources View-Thru Geometric Solids (LER4331) to your geometric toolkit.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.Geo Shapes
By TJohn
These shapes have been a great addition to my classroom manipulatives supply. They are easy to handle and very durable.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.If only there were more shapes . . .
By nvlmommy
These are just as you'd expect - foam shapes! They are firm, colorful and the kids love them. I'm very pleased with them. I just wish there was more variety, but they cover the basics well.
Product Description
Soft Foam Geometric ShapesShapes come in three colors and measure 2"–3". Teaching Guide included. Set of 12 includes cones, sphere, hemisphere, cube, cylinders, pyramid, prisms and rectangular solid shapes. • Grades K+
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #7675 in Office Product
- Color: N/A
- Brand: Learning Resources
- Model: LER6120
- Published on: 2010-03-22
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 6.40" h x6.20" w x6.20" l,.40 pounds
Features
- Great for quiet explorations of geometry
- Mades of soft foam
- Set of 12
