Educational aid and method

• US 6,612,844 B1
• Filed: 03/28/2000
• Issued: 09/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Harold C. Vallee
• Original Assignee: Harold C. Vallee
• Inventors: Vallee, Harold C.
• Primary Examiner(s): Banks, Derris H.
• Assistant Examiner(s): Fernstrom, Kurt
• Application Number:
  US09/536,536
• Time in Patent Office: 1,253 Days
• Field of Search: 434/157, 434/165, 434/188, 434/209, 434/178, 434/156, 273/299, 273/300, 273/301, 273/302, 273/308
• US Class Current: 434/156
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 1/02 and having a support carrying or adapted to carry the elements
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/02 Counting; Calculating abacus G06C1/00
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/06 Foreign languages with audible presentation of material to be studied G09B5/04

Abstract

An educational aid that provides a surface, such as a page in a book, that is sectioned into at least two sections. A plurality of concepts are presented in the first section and a plurality of concepts are presented in the second section that relate to the subject matter of the first section. The concepts are at least linguistic, mathematical, and artistic and allow the user to compare the more complex concepts with the simpler concepts and thereby increase the learning curve by building upon an already learned concept.

Claims

1. An information presenting apparatus that functions as an education aid, comprising:

a plurality of pages in a book;

at least a first section, a second section, and a third section being simultaneously presented on a majority of said plurality of pages in said book;

a single sentence being presented in said first section and presenting a subject matter, at least a second sentence being presented in said second section and relaying the same subject matter as said single sentence, and a third plurality of sentences being presented in said third section and presenting the same subject matter or said single sentence and said second sentence; and

said single sentence, said second sentence, and said third plurality of sentences are presented in a gradually more complex level of comprehension respectively;

whereby the subject matter of each of said sections can he read and understood by a single user without assistance from a user having a greater reading ability and a more advanced level of comprehension.

2. The invention of claim 1, wherein the second sentence presents the subject matter of said single sentence using synonyms, grammar, and vocabulary at a level of a user having a greater reading ability than a user reading said single sentence.

3. The invention of claim 2, wherein said third plurality of sentences present the subject matter of said single sentence and the second sentence using synonyms, grammar, and vocabulary at a level of a user having a greater reading ability than a user reading said single sentence and the second sentence.

4. The invention of claim 1, wherein the second sentence presents the subject matter of said single sentence using synonyms, grammar, and vocabulary at a level of a user having a greater reading ability than a user reading said single sentence;

and

said third plurality of sentences present the subject matter of said single sentence and the second sentence using synonyms, grammar, and vocabulary at a level of a user having a greater reading ability than a user reading said single sentence and said second plurality of sentences.

5. The invention of claim 4, wherein said single sentence is in a casual writing style, the second sentences comprises language used in a business field;

said third plurality of sentences comprise language used in a legal field.

6. The invention of claim 4, wherein the second sentence presents the subject matter of said single sentence in a parallel writing style;

and

said third plurality of sentences present the subject matter of the second sentence in a metaphorical writing style.

7. A method of creating an information presenting apparatus for use as a teaching aid, comprising:

providing a plurality of pages in a book;

creating at least a first section, a second Section, and a third section on a majority of said plurality of pages;

presenting a single sentence in said first section that relays a subject matter, presenting at least a second sentence in said second section that relay the same subject matter as said single sentence at a greater level of vocabulary and grammar, and presenting a third plurality of sentences in said third section that relay the same subject matter as said single sentence and said second plurality of sentences at even a greater level of vocabulary and grammar than said second plurality of sentences;

reading the subject matter of each of said sections by a user having a corresponding level of comprehension without the assistance of a user having a greater reading ability and a more advanced level of comprehension.

8. An information presenting apparatus that functions as an education aid, comprising:

at least a surface;

at least a first section, a second section, and a third section being simultaneously presented on said surface;

a single sentence being presented in said first section and presenting a subject matter, at least a second sentence being presented in said second section and relaying the same subject matter as said single sentence, and at least a third sentence being presented in said third section and presenting the same subject matter of said single sentence and the second sentence; and

said single sentence, the second sentence, and the third sentence are presented in a gradually more complex level of comprehension respectively;

whereby the subject matter can be read and understood by a single user without assistance firm a user having a greater reading ability and a more advanced level of comprehension.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein said the second sentence presents the subject matter of said single sentence using synonyms, grammar, and vocabulary at a level of a user having a greater reading ability than a user reading said single sentence.

10. The apparatus of claim 9, wherein the third sentence presents the subject matter of said single sentence and said second plurality of sentences using synonyms, grammar, and vocabulary at a level of a user having a greater reading ability than a user reading said single sentence and the second sentence.

11. apparatus of claim 8, wherein the second sentence presents the subject matter of said single sentence using synonyms, grammar, and vocabulary at a level of a user having a greater reading ability than a user reading said single sentence;

and

the third sentence presents the subject matter of said single sentence and e second sentence using synonyms, granular, and vocabulary at a level of a user having a greater reading ability than a user reading said single sentence and the second sentence.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein said single sentence is in a casual writing style, the second sentence comprises language used in a business field;

the third sentence comprises language used in a legal field.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the second sentence presents the subject matter of said single sentence in a parallel writing style;

and

the third sentence presents the subject matter of the second sentence in a metaphorical writing style.

14. A method of creating an information presenting apparatus for use as a teaching aid, comprising:

providing at least a surface;

creating at least a first section, a second section, and a third section on said surface;

presenting a single sentence in said first section that relays a subject matter, presenting at least a second sentence in said second section that relays the same subject matter as said single sentence at a greater level of vocabulary and grammar, and presenting at (east a third sentence in said third section that relay the same subject matter as said single sentence and the second sentence at even a greater level of vocabulary and grammar than the second sentence;

reading the subject matter of each of said sections by a user having a corresponding level of comprehension without the assistance of a user having a greater reading ability and a more advanced level of comprehension.