TickiT Colour Acrylic Block Set

Product Description

• Beautifully polished translucent acrylic blocks in different shapes, with a plane mirror, 15 work cards and teachers' notes included.
• The smooth colourful tactile blocks are designed to enable children to explore light & colour, build patterns and sequences as well as create imaginative pictures. 
• Regular polygons to help with mathematical language and the understanding of shapes and forms (square, triangle, oblong, circle, ellipse)
• Irregular shapes to enable more complex pictures to be made and to encourage a rich diversity of language such as wave, zigzag, arch, bridge etc 
• Plane mirror for children to build patterns and see the effects of reflective symmetry 
• Coloured and clear blocks so children can see the world in a different hue, overlay them to mix new colour combinations and use them on a light panel
• 15 pupil work cards from simple ideas to more complex challenges.
• There are pictures to copy in 2D or 3D, shape sequences to solve and ideas for reflective symmetry work. 
• Teachers' guide including background information, suggested activities to try, questions to ask the children and extension ideas.
• Set includes 25 blocks, 15 A4 work cards, 1 acrylic plane mirror and a teachers' guide, stored in a robust card box with key guide and foam inserts to protect the blocks.
• The mirror is 160 x 320mm and largest block height is 80mm

PPS Awards - what the testers said: "Lovely, bright, translucent colours that were immediately appealing and awesome on the light box! Tactile shapes and the addition of the mirror extended the learning and play value."