TEACHING MEANS FOR MATHEMATICS

• US 20150079556A1
• Filed: 09/12/2014
• Published: 03/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/13/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Global Learning Innovations Oy
• Original Assignee: Maarit Laitinen
• Inventors: LAITINEN, Maarit
• Granted Patent: US 9,697,747 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/201
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 1/40 to form symbols or signs by appropriate arrangement
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/02 for mathematics for statics or dynamics G09B23/08
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/02 with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip

Abstract

Mathematical teaching aids (100) and a method of enhancing the mathematical perception skills of a target person, preferably of practicing abductive reasoning, which teaching aids (100) include a number of teaching tiles (102), each of the teaching tiles (102) having at least one mark (104), wherein at least two teaching tiles (102), when combined, together form an identifiable pattern via the marks (104).

Claims

1. Mathematical teaching aids (100) for enhancing the mathematical perception skills of a target person, preferably for practicing abductive reasoning, the mathematical teaching aids (100) comprising

a number of teaching tiles (102), each of the teaching tiles (102) having at least one mark (104),

wherein at least two teaching tiles (102), when combined, together form an identifiable pattern by means of the marks (104).

2. Teaching aids as defined in claim 1, wherein the teaching aids also include at least one illustrative teaching tile to be put on top of said combined teaching tiles, the marks on the illustrative teaching tile corresponding to the pattern formed together by the combined teaching tiles.

3. Teaching aids as defined in claim 1, wherein the marks on the teaching tiles with a different number of marks are of a different color.

4. Teaching aids as defined in claim 1, wherein said combined teaching tiles substantially lie on top of each other.

5. Teaching aids as defined in claim 1, wherein said combined teaching tiles substantially extend in the same plane.

6. Teaching aids as defined in claim 1, wherein the combined teaching tiles attach to each other.

7. Teaching aids as defined in claim 1, wherein the pattern is a dice pattern.

8. Teaching aids as defined in claim 1, wherein the pattern is a domino pattern.

9. Teaching aids as defined in claim 1, wherein at least one of said combined teaching tiles comprises the dice pattern of five.

10. Teaching aids as defined in claim 1, wherein the teaching tiles are at least partly transparent.

11. Teaching aids as defined in claim 1, wherein the manufacturing material of the teaching tiles is chosen from a group including glass, plastic or any combination of these.

12. Teaching aids as defined in claim 1, wherein the teaching aids are in electronic form.

13. A method of enhancing the mathematical perception skills of a target person, preferably for practicing abductive reasoning, the method comprising at least the following steps:

selecting a first teaching tile,

selecting a second teaching tile,

combining the first and the second teaching tiles to form an identifiable pattern by means of the marks on the teaching tiles.

14. A method as defined in claim 13, in which method an illustrative teaching tile is put on top of said combined teaching tiles, the pattern shown by said illustrative teaching tile by means of marks then substantially lying on the pattern formed by the two combined teaching tiles by means of marks.

15. A method as defined in claim 13, in which method the combined teaching tiles are separated from each other.