#MAGNA TILES IDEAS HOW TO#
(I told them the name for that one, but only after they’d worked out how to actually make it on their own). If you then bring those isosceles triangles up to meet at the apex, you’ve made a hexagonal pyramid. Once you have your hexagon, you can add isosceles triangles to the outside to make a pretty star. If you try adding four equilateral triangles together, it looks like 4/6 of a hexagon. Only right angle triangles work for that. They are also learning, that you can’t make a square with the other types of triangles. And you can combine four right angle triangles together to make a different sized square altogether. If you run out of small squares, you can make a new one by adding two right angle triangles together. This makes a solid cube instead of a hollow one.
Another way to make a cube, is to stack squares on top of one another until they reach the right height. If you run out of large squares, you can add four small squares together to make one. The girls are learning that if you put two (or more) squares together, you get a rectangle. It’s more what the girls are learning, mostly through their own explorations, that’s really impressing me about Magna-Tiles. I figure, if the girls can remember and pronounce all the names of the Disney princesses, they can easily remember the names of the different triangles too, right? (Pocahontas, Rapunzel and Aurora are not exactly easy to pronounce!)īut this post isn’t really about memorising triangle names. From the beginning, we’ve been calling these shapes by their proper names. Our Magnatiles set includes small squares, large squares, equilateral triangles, isosceles triangles and right angle triangles. This, of course, provides all sorts of fantastic physics, engineering and math learning opportunities through play! Because magnetic tiles connect together really easily, they can build these structures in a few minutes, and they continue to adapt their structures (by adding or taking away pieces) as they play, so that their building is always evolving. They build trains, rockets, castles, stables, ships, school rooms and dungeons. Usually when the girls play with their Magna-Tiles, they construct some sort of prop for imaginative play. But I thought I would share some of my initial reflections on how they’ve been playing with them so far, and in particular, the rich hands-on geometry that has evolved out of this play. There are so many ways to play with magnetic tiles, and we’re only just scratching the surface. The girls were lucky enough to receive this set of ‘Magna-Tiles’ magnetic tiles from their Grandma for Christmas.
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