This is one of the best purchases I have made in both toys and educational elements. I mean the strips of wood I bought in Dolmen, a store in Madrid that is located in the Ribera de Curtidores and also serves online.
They are made of wood and painted in cheerful colors. In this package that I chose come 300 pieces of different sizes and the unit, the cube, measures 1 cubic centimeter, so it is not advisable for children under three years.
The strips are pieces of increasing size on the basis of the unit, and allow the child to become familiar with the proportions and numbers in a playful way, using the different sizes to play freely or making mathematical games that we can propose. They can form series from 1 to 10, compare quantities and add.
Through manipulation they assimilate concepts such as major and minor or the properties of addition, since it is very practical to convert quantities into something they can touch. In a playful way you can work all these concepts with them. The maths How they should be discovered, in my opinion, is this way.
In addition, as children have a lot of imagination, they will use them to represent figures on the ground or to make varied constructions, so in addition to an object with an educational use they are very versatile toys, with hundreds of possibilities that never run out.
That's why our Dolmen strips They are one of our favorite toys. They are not expensive, the box costs 12.85 euros, so I can say that it is one of the best purchases I have made. I recommend them.
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