Frequently Asked Questions Thousands of web sites for educators and students. Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. Intended for children aged 4 to 9, this software learning game features four game choices which introduce numbers, pre geometry concepts, and encourage inventiveness in learning. Each activity starts with a one hundred square grid of tiles.
Students can choose from an on screen palette that has basic shapes and colors.
Any tile selected appears on an easel so that students can rotate it, swap foreground and background colors, otherwise transform it, and then click on the desired location to place the tile on the grid. Feedback is provided on each choice. Specific content areas addressed include visual perception, pattern recognition, and spatial abilities. Children can apply their understanding of rotation, directionality, sequence, order, regularity, repetition, equivalence, similarity, conservation, one to one correspondence, coordinates, mental transformations, area, and fractions. A player's guide is included.