Name of teaching material
MAGIQUP marketed product
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| Target |
• Children with visual impairment who are learning various subjects • Infants and children with visual impairment who can play with shapes (Kindergarten, elementary, and lower secondary divisions) |
|---|---|
| Disability category | visual impairment |
| Teaching units / Applicable scenes | arithmetic, mathematics pre-school education |
| Specific purposes |
To enable infants and children to: • build a cube, cuboid, triangular pyramid, or square pyramid by putting surfaces together • understand 3-dimensional objects and their nets The use of two types of plates—with a side length of 5 or 10 cm—enables infants and children to understand the theorem that, if the length of one side is doubled, the area is quadrupled and the volume is increased eightfold; this is achieved by having the children look at and touch the MAGIQUP. |
| Considerations for disability characteristics |
• MAGIQUP is easy to assemble and disassemble and allows trial and error without problems. • Surfaces can be connected in a hinge-like manner to form shapes easily. • The high shape-retention capability of the product enables the children to use their sense of touch to confirm the production of a cube or cuboid; this helps them understand the nets of shapes. |
| Expected effects and results | • Assembling and disassembling MAGIQUP by themselves enabled the children to realize that a 3-dimensional object is composed of surfaces; they became conscious of the shapes and numbers of surfaces and able to understand the nets of shapes. |
| How to use |
• MAGIQUP has plastic plates with six shapes (triangle, square, pentagon, hexagon, rectangle, and isosceles triangle). There are two types: a side of 10 cm and thickness of 8 mm; or a side of 5 cm. A strong round-bar magnet is implanted in each plate, enabling the plates to be attached together in a hinge-like manner. The polarity of the magnet reverses within the plate, and users can therefore handle the plates without regard to the polarity. • In play with shapes, users can combine the six shapes freely to make other shapes. • In arithmetic learning, users assemble shapes, which are included in the learning unit, such as a cube or cuboid. They also confirm their net shapes to build up images of nets of shapes. |
| Related teaching materials and information |
MAGIQUP can help many children to build up images of three-dimensional shapes, regardless of the presence or absence of visual impairment. Creator: Masao Nagaoka Vendor: Studio Nagaoka; http://magiqup.com/; 390-1 Honjo-cho, Izumo-shi, Shimane-ken, 691-0032, Japan; TEL: +81-853-62-2523 |
| Useful for other students |
- Informant Special Needs Education School for the Visually Impaired, University of Tsukuba
- Keywords Face, graphics, shape, touch observation
- Created 2017-03-02 14:47:50
- Updated 2020-06-08 14:23:28