Learning Resources Folding Geometric Shapes

by Learning Resources

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 12.3 x 12.4 x 3.5 inches ; 2.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0006PKZ54
• Item model number: LER0921
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,250 in Office Products (See Top 100 in Office Products)
  • #18 in Toys & Games > Baby & Toddler Toys > Stacking & Nesting Toys
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 1, 2003

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

The innovative folding geometric shape set is perfect for hands-on lessons in symmetry, perimeter, area, surface area and volume. Each three-inch shape folds flat, allowing for illustration of a three-dimensional shape's two-dimensional properties. Set of 16 pieces includes red, yellow, green and blue cylinder, square pyramid, cube, rectangular prism, cone, hexagonal prism, triangular pyramid and triangular prism, and clear plastic casings.

Product Description

Grades 2 & up. Great way to explore area, volume and perimeter with this 16 piece set of geometric shapes. Shapes are 3 inches high and the set consists of eight transparent shapes and eight folding shapes. Children will love to see how much one shape will hold and then compare to another shape.

Customer Reviews

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Geometric Shapes and Nets, February 11, 2007

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mathlete (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Learning Resources Folding Geometric Shapes (Office Product)

Excellent resources for teaching geometric solids and their nets. The plastic nets contained within each polygon fold out so that students can easily see the shapes that make up the polygon. You can purchase a set of solid transparent tiles for use with a transparency projector that compliment this set of solids. This additional set contains tiles showing the outlines of the geometric and solid colored tiles in the shape of the net. For example, the geometric solid of a hexagonal prism has a yellow plastic net folded inside the clear plastic solid. This net can be removed and unfolded. There are two tiles (in the complementary set)which coordinate with this shape - a clear tile with the outline, in yellow, of the hexagonal prism's edges, and a transparent yellow tile in the shape of the hexagonal prism net.

I found these resources a vast improvement over the Power Solids that are traditionally used in Middle School. The price is also excellent.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great learning tool, September 27, 2009

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= Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Learning Resources Folding Geometric Shapes (Office Product)

These are wonderful to use in Math classrooms. I used it in the past for Middle School Geometry and now at College level. Surface Area, Volume, even density can all be explained using these shapes. The nets are durable and students can trace them and create their own 3-D figures.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Resource!, January 24, 2011

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= Durability:4.0 out of 5 stars  = Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars  = Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Learning Resources Folding Geometric Shapes (Office Product)

Essential resource for students to learn both the 2D and 3D representations of these geometric figures. Being able to remove the net from the three dimensional shape and visually see how one becomes the other, gives this product great value!