Roland's Cube

The Washington Post is running a series of articles on Schools & Learning in their Metro section. On Monday, September 8, the article focused on "Building Blocks" - "Math From Pre-K to Grade 2." The emphasis in the article is on the development of math sense and skills for young learners.

In the section on "What Second-Graders Should Know" the writer talks about examples taken from the Virginia DOE standards. In the area of Geometry the student must be aware of identifying, describing and sorting 3D figures such as shown in the GollyGee Blocks® scene.

The neat thing about GollyGee Blocks® is that the student can rotate the 3D objects in all directions as well as look down on and look up under each object. The wireframe mode allows the student to look into the 3D shape, a nice tool for describing a shape attributes.