Polygonal device for kinesthetic learners

• US 8,444,419 B2
• Filed: 08/24/2010
• Issued: 05/21/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Shannon Driskell
• Original Assignee: Shannon Driskell
• Inventors: Driskell, Shannon, Becker, Stephen Jaymes, Chung, Hannah Ji.in, Craven, Joshua Robert, Doepker, Philip, O'Connell, Amanda, Richardson, Le Allen, Schenk, Donald Edward, Smith, Douglas Weithas, Tremblay, Virginia Lynn
• Primary Examiner(s): Fernstrom, Kurt
• Application Number:
  US12/862,306
• Publication Number:
  US 20110053125A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,001 Days
• Field of Search: 434/72, 434/29, 434/81, 434/96, 434/211, 434/212, 434/214, 446/85, 446/105, 446/106, 446/108, 446/116, 446/120, 446/121, 334/64, 334/65, 33468-470
• US Class Current: 434/211
• CPC Class Codes: B33Y 80/00 Products made by additive manufacturing
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 23/04 for geometry, trigonometry, projection or perspective for surveying G09B25/06

Abstract

A polygonal device for teaching students who prefer kinesthetic learning methods is presented in which the polygonal device can represent two-dimensional polygons of varying shapes and sizes. One or more of the sides, or legs, of the polygonal device are extendable, and the angles of the polygonal device may be manipulated to a desired angle. The devices presented include, but are not limited to, triangles, quadrilaterals, parallelograms, rectangles, squares, trapezoids, and kites. In each of these devices, the legs of the device are non-detachable, i.e. the device does not come apart during normal manipulation and operation.

Claims

1. A polygonal device for teaching kinesthetic learners two-dimensional polygonal shapes, the polygonal device comprising:

four legs, each leg comprising an extendable leg, the extendable leg comprising a first section and a second section, the first section being non-detachably coupled to the second section;

a first angle, a second angle, a third angle, and a fourth angle, wherein each of the angles is coupled between two corresponding legs; and

a square constraint non-detachably coupled between the first angle and the second angle, the square constraint operative to ensure the polygonal device forms only substantially square polygons.

2. A polygonal device for teaching kinesthetic learners two-dimensional polygonal shapes, the polygonal device comprising:

four legs, each leg comprising an extendable leg, the extendable leg comprising a first section and a second section, the first section being non-detachably coupled to the second section;

a first angle, a second angle, a third angle, and a fourth angle, wherein each of the angles is coupled between two corresponding legs; and

a kite constraint non-detachably coupled between the first angle, the second angle, the third angle, and the fourth angle, the kite constraint operative to ensure the polygonal device forms only substantially kite polygons.

3. A polygonal device for teaching kinesthetic learners two-dimensional polygonal shapes, the polygonal device comprising:

four legs, each leg comprising an extendable leg, the extendable leg comprising a first section and a second section, the first section being non-detachably coupled to the second section;

a first angle, a second angle, a third angle, and a fourth angle, wherein each of the angles is coupled between two corresponding legs; and

a first parallel constraint nondetachably coupled between a first leg of the four legs and a second leg of the four legs, the first parallel constraint operative to ensure the first leg is constantly substantially parallel to the second leg.

4. The polygonal device of claim 3, further comprising a first length constraint nondetachably coupled to the first leg and a second length constraint non-detachably coupled to the second leg, the length constraints operative to ensure that the length of the first leg is not equal to the length of the second leg.

5. The polygonal device of claim 3, further comprising a second parallel stabilizer nondetachably coupled between a third leg of the four legs and a fourth leg of the four legs, the second parallel stabilizer operative to ensure the third leg is constantly substantially parallel to the fourth leg.

6. A polygonal device for teaching kinesthetic learners two-dimensional polygonal shapes, the polygonal device comprising:

four legs, each leg comprising an extendable leg, the extendable leg comprising a first section and a second section, the first section being non-detachably coupled to the second section;

a first angle, a second angle, a third angle, and a fourth angle, wherein each of the angles is coupled between two corresponding legs; and

a first single angle constraint nondetachably coupled to the first angle, a second single angle constraint non-detachably coupled to the second angle, and a third single angle constraint non-detachably coupled to the third angle.

7. A polygonal device for teaching kinesthetic learners two-dimensional polygonal shapes, the polygonal device comprising:

three legs, each leg comprising an extendable leg, the extendable leg comprising a first section and a second section, the first section being non-detachably coupled to the second section;

a first angle, a second angle, and a third angle, wherein each of the angles is coupled between two corresponding legs; and

a first single angle constraint nondetachably coupled to the first angle.