The Dow's Schoolroom

Are you looking for a math manipulative that will hold your child's interest as well as give him some important visual and kinesthetic math skills? These soft pattern blocks are great fun and educational too. Your child will create all kinds of designs with the various shapes while exploring patterns, symmetry, linear and area measurement, fractions and problem solving. The soft material will even stick to smooth surfaces when wet. There are 250 colorful Pattern Blocks in the set and they come in a plastic bucket for easy storage.

Investigating With Pattern Blocks

by Marcia Miller &
Martin Lee
Grades 1-3

Retail price $10.95
Our price $9.30

The 30 activities in this book includes:

• Spatial relations
• Estimation
• Measurement
• Area
• Perimeter

Pattern Animals
Puzzles For Pattern Blocks

by Sandra Mogensen &
Judi Magarian-Gold
Grades 2-4

Retail price $9.95
Our price $8.50

As your child fills in the animal shapes with his Pattern Blocks he will explore:

• geometry
• measurement
• counting
• graphing
• estimation
• fractional relationships

Exploring With Pattern Blocks

by Vincent J. Altamuro &
Sandra Pryor Clarkson
Grades 4-8
Retail price $10.95
Our price $9.30

The 53 activities in Exploring Pattern Blocks can supplement any curriculum to reinforce math concepts, or be used as enrichment any time. They include the following:

• Number sense
• Geometry
• Measurement
• Algebra.