Eisco Garage Physics Magic Square Puzzle Kit - Made in the USA

<b>The Eisco Garage Physics line is aimed at students interested in STEM concepts included physics and engineering. Each kit engages learners to discover new ideas about the physical world through assembly and play.</b><br>The magic square has been part of the mathematical history of nearly every major civilization, including China, Persia, Arabia, India, and Europe. The magic square is defined as a square grid of unique integers in which the rows, columns, and diagonals all add to the same value. This block set allows children and students to explore the 3x3 magic square as well as other principles of mathematics both visually and kinesthetically.<br>We’ve designed this kit to enable an engaging back and forth for almost every age of child. Young children can use the kit to explore the natural numbers. Elementary school children can use them to investigate addition, subtraction, multiplication, as well as units of measure, and the associative property. They can also try to solve simplified versions of the magic square puzzle by trying to make two stacks, three stacks, or five stacks of the same height. Middle school students can use the puzzle to explore the magic square in depth (in which all rows, columns and the two diagonals should stack to the same height), as well as arithmetic sequences (including the first few elements of the Fibonacci sequence). Beyond working out the complete solution to the magic square, high school students can use the kit to explore counting in binary up to 15 and, in classroom settings, counting in ternary up to 26. <br>Kit includes 9 wooden blocks of increasing heights, adhesive labels for labeling blocks, ball point pen, cardboard storage box and instructions for assembly and experimental activities, organized by learning level.