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Spielgaben: Manipulatives for Math - $450 (William's Lake)
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"Spielgaben (Spielgabe) consist of 14 sequential series of wooden manipulative to be used for children between 1 and 12 years old(under 3 years old needs parent’s supervision). Each set added to the next in a particular order, growing more complex over time and teaching different lessons about shape, structure and perception along the way.
A soft knitted ball could be given to a child just six weeks old, followed by a wooden ball and then a cube, illustrating similarities and differences in shapes and materials. Then, kids would get a cylinder (which combines elements of both the ball and the cube), and it would blow their little minds. Some objects were pierced by strings or rods so kids could spin them and see how one shape morphs into another when set into motion. Later came cubes made up of smaller cubes and other hybrids, showing children how parts relate to a whole through deconstruction and reassembly.
In a very structured way, these lessons encouraged young children to think abstractly and to relate ideas, objects and symbols. A set of blocks could be used to teach counting, then they could be turned into a house and then be used to tell the story of a family living in that house. Children will learn to model the world in fundamentally different ways while using the same set of geometric forms, arranging and rearranging them to make new connections.
Spielgaben (Spielgabe) was originally developed by founder of kindergarten, Friedrich Fröbel with his highly organized and linear approach, which has inspired so many world famous artists, architects and designers such as Albert Einstein, Buckminster Fuller, Charles Eames, Frank Lloyd Wright, Paul Klee and Piet Mondrian."