Pink Tower vs Math Geometry

*** Now used with autistic children to practice following a sequence of events!*** Introducing the most famous Montessori activity of them all, the Pink Tower, now available on your iPad! The Pink Tower was developed as an activity to help children with visual discrimination of dimensions, a Montessori preparation for math. There are twelve exercises for the child to work with. Each requires them to identify the next cube in sequence to complete the desired pattern. You can choose to manually move the cubes into position or to simply touch the correct cube and it will automatically move to the correct spot. The relationship in size between each cube in this app and the physical Pink Tower are exactly the same which is important for future Montessori activities! This app was co-developed and approved by an AMI certified Montessori teacher with over forty years experience! We admit, we struggled with whether or not we should even develop a Pink Tower application because holding a three dimensional cube in your hand is supposed to be part of the concrete experience! However, understanding that most parents will not have a Pink Tower at home, there is value in constructing the two dimensional patterns by having to identify which cube is required in sequence to complete the design. Young children will enjoy working with the Pink Tower and will be gaining key concepts useful in their understanding of math. Please see our other Montessori apps available in the App Store or Visit us at www.mobilemontessori.org.

“Math Geometry: Learning 2D and 3D Shapes” is designed for school teachers and children aged 5-10 years to study 2D and 3D shapes, and the attributes of shapes. The app contains the hi-quality figures and provides a fun and interactive way to learn the shapes, so your kids will love this app. The app provides following functionality / topics / concepts: • Learning and testing 2D Shapes and their attributes – sides and corners • Learning and testing 3D Shapes and their attributes – vertices, faces and edges • Ability to rotate any 3D shape in any direction – it is a fun and effective way to memorize each shape • Different question types: identifying a shape by a given picture, by a given name and by its attributes • Manage the test content – you can exclude/include a specific shape from the test content • Choose the number of questions – from 10 to 40 • Progress report – ability to see the latest and best student results by test type (2D / 3D) and by question type (shape names / attributes of shape) • Ability to see the correct answer, and learn the related shapes when the student makes a mistake. This option is configurable, so it can be switched off if required • Ability to reset the statistics • Sound control Enjoy!