Zometool - Creator 3

by Zometool

Product Features

• Concise step-by-step color instruction booklet included.
• Parent's Guide Children's Media Award.
• Not for children under 6 years of age.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 14.1 x 8.8 x 2 inches ; 3.2 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B00000ISXB
• Item model number: ZT0003
• Manufacturer recommended age: 6 years and up
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #40,253 in Toys & Games (See Top 100 in Toys & Games)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

Product Description

Editorial Review

The Zometool Creator Kit is an advanced construction system which allows building in 62 directions in space, using the same proportions found in growing cells, crystals, and other natural forms. Inquisitive minds will marvel and discover mathematical connections between space and the natural world. Capturing beauty and mystery, the Zometool Creator Kit encourages exploration of complex mathematical concepts through manipulating 730+ pieces (struts and nodes), building relationships in space, and creating beautiful models. The colorful, sturdy plastic struts and nodes easily connect to holes with matching shapes, making it possible to engineer even intricate models with ease. Easy-to-follow, step-by-step, illustrated directions are included. The Zome System is used in schools worldwide--elementary through college--and by leading scientists, artists, mathematicians, engineers, and creative kids! Lesson plans for grades 1-12 are also available. The Zometool Creator Kit is a recipient of the Parent's Guide Children's Media Award. --Christine Aiken

Product Description

Creator 3 kit will painlessly help build strengths in number sense, geometry, symmetry and proportion, tessellations, fractals and pattern recognition, use it to explore structure in nature and the human built world, and for the academically inclined it will supplement projective geometry, trigonometry and algebra, topology, and much more. Zometool will help you form a new understanding of the coherent structure of space. Your mind will never be the same again!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

36 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Top's K-Nex by a long shot!! Incredibly easy!!, August 16, 1999

By A Customer

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

This review is from: Zometool - Creator 3 (Toy)

Just an incredible set. The pieces are well shaped and fit together not only easily but logically, the pieces are color coded so there's no bending or frustration when they don't fit (like K-Nex) and the ball connectors are universal so you don't have to change them in order to add more.

I recently experimented with this set and found it very entertaining and addictive, your creativity can just take off and there's no limit!!

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What you get is more than you see., July 27, 1999

By A Customer

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

This review is from: Zometool - Creator 3 (Toy)

This construction set has been a staple in my elementary gifted classroom for nearly two years. The students love the creativity and impressive structures they can build. I love the fact that the materials require that you put a subtle twist into your thinking in order to succeed. But free-style construction is only the beginning! We have investigated the meaning and variations of tetrahedra, explored the shadows of student constructions, made bubbles that blow you away, and challenged one another to construction competitions. (Please don't tell my kids that they are learning!)

25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Zome System Creator Kit, October 29, 2000

By A Customer

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

This review is from: Zometool - Creator 3 (Toy)

My son received this set for his eighth birthday. It was frustrating for him, as well as myself, at first as the rods have to really be pushed hard into the balls in order for your creations to not fall apart easily. Afer hours of working with the set we have found it to be truly contagious. He has made some really amazing "buildings" and never wants to dismantel them so the 900+ piece set is very handy to have. I have a hard time seeing the price value in this product. It appears to be a very inexpensive product to manufacture and it sells for a fairly steep price.