With the help of various teaching aids, parents can develop their children at home and independently prepare for school. One of them is colored Cuisenaire counting sticks for teaching numbers in the form of a game. This manual promotes the development of many useful skills; it is multifunctional and easy to use for adults and children. Working with blocks for children is always very exciting. Check out their characteristics and examples of exercises.

What are Cuisenaire's wands?

This manual gets its name from the Belgian educator who created it. George Cuisenaire developed special blocks that help master the laws of mathematics. The game material has a second name - “numbers in color”. The cuisenaire set includes canes of 10 different colors and sizes from a centimeter to ten. The set is a complex mathematical set.

Description of the technique

The Cuisenaire set is used to develop a child's interest in mathematics in game form at home, this is the main goal. Logic games Curious kids will love it. Teaching mathematics in a playful way with the Cuisenaire set is based on the principle of clarity. If a child sees an object and can even touch it, it will be much easier for him to understand the science of counting. It will also be easier for parents to explain mathematics to their children with the help of visual teaching aids. Characteristics of Cuisenaire's rods that a child remembers and distinguishes:

• color;
• concept of numerical value;
• length.

What can you teach a child

The main purpose of the Cuisenaire set is to help the child become familiar with mathematics. However, with its help, the baby will be able to learn much more. He will be able to learn:

• compose colored numbers and letters, while matching symbols with concepts;
• distinguish how objects are located in space (in front and behind, right and left, between, middle, below and above);
• mathematical concepts (number, figure, figure, more and less, equally, etc.);
• basic math skills: addition and subtraction;
• disassemble numbers into components;
• understand what quantity is, how numbers and figures relate;
• determine the previous and next numbers for the current one within the first ten.

Colored Cuisenaire counting sticks - characteristics of developmental material

What is the set? Cuisenaire sticks are parallelepipeds made of plastic or wood. They are painted in different colors. Each shade has its own length (1-10 cm) and its own number from one to ten. Based on similar colors, bars are grouped into families or classes of the same multiplicity. There are five such groups in total. It is worth talking in more detail about the meaning of the color and length of the bars.

Number of counting sticks in a set

There are sets of different sizes. The simplest one has 116 pieces, but it is preferable to buy those with more material. For example, in the classic set of counting aids there are 241 of them. This will significantly expand the list of games and tasks that you can offer your child. Quantity of each color in a cuisenaire set of 116 bars:

• white – 25;
• pink – 20;
• blue – 16;
• red – 12;
• yellow – 10;
• purple – 9;
• black – 8;
• burgundy – 7;
• blue – 5;
• orange – 4.

Color spectrum

The selection of sticks according to shades was not done by chance. They are grouped according to the principles of similar shade and multiplicity. The length of the bar corresponds to the number assigned to it. All relationships between the strips can be traced by studying the following table:

		Length in cm	What number does it correspond to?	Quantity in a standard set of 241 bars (pcs.)
Red family (multiples of 2)
	Burgundy
Blue family (multiples of 3)
	Violet
Yellow (multiples of 5)
	Orange

Age category

It doesn’t matter how old the baby is. If it is interesting to play with blocks, then it is allowed to do so. As a rule, children show the first signs of curiosity towards them when they are one year old. This means you can start educational games, gradually increasing their complexity. Interest in typing naturally fades away in a child around the elementary grades of school, when he has already mastered the basics of mathematics.

Educational games and activities with cuiseneur sticks

The teaching method is suitable for a child of any age. Preschoolers will have a lot of fun playing with the set; older children will find it useful as a math teaching tool. Parents are offered a huge amount of materials, which present ready-made games, scenarios, and example tasks. All this makes it much easier to plan and conduct classes with inquisitive children. What can you do with the benefit (in stages, depending on age) using the Cuisenaire method:

1. Play. The child lays them out and sorts them out.
2. Compare as analogues of numbers. If you indicate the difference between them, the child will clearly understand the difference between “more” and “less”.
3. Post the numbers.
4. Explain the principles of addition and subtraction.
5. Lay out in mosaics, recognizing their numerical relationships and meanings.
6. Summarizing the essence of arithmetic operations. Gradually, you will develop your baby's mathematical abilities.

Introduction to chopsticks for little ones

At first, the baby will simply play with the counting material, like with cubes. Then offer to play “Find Me.” Give your child the following tasks in any order:

• list the colors of all the bars;
• find the one that is longer than the red one and shorter than the blue one;
• find all the bars of the same shade;
• lay out strips of two colors, alternating red and blue;
• find a block that is NOT yellow;
• choose two strips and compare their length;
• find the shortest one and name the color;
• select one of each shade.

Help your child draw some conclusions. He should emphasize that stripes of the same color are equal in size. To do this, take a couple of any bars and ask your child questions:

1. Are these sticks different?
2. What is the same about them?
3. What's different?

Games with Cuisenaire sticks

There are many fun activities with blocks. You can purchase special materials with examples or even come up with games yourself. A few simple options:

1. “Take a guess.” Hide one block. The child guesses what color it is by asking “yes” and “no” questions. For example, “Is the missing stick shorter than the yellow one?”, “Is it longer than the black one?”
2. “Make a picture.” The kid, using the set as a constructor, puts together certain images, starting with the simplest ones and then increasing the complexity: square, triangle, fence, house, Christmas tree, etc.

Studying the color scheme

This is the first characteristic that a child should be introduced to. You can do this using the following games:

1. "Train". Let the child imagine that the cuisinaire's sticks are trailers. Ask your child to fold the colored striped “train” so that the orange “car” is to the left of the burgundy one, but to the right of the red one.
2. Dictation. Name the colors to the baby, and he takes out the corresponding bars from the general pile and lays them out from left to right.

Counting sticks

This stage of training is the most extensive. First you need to introduce your child to the sequence of natural numbers. Build horizontal, vertical, symmetrical ladders. The child will understand the basic law of the natural series: each number is one more than the previous one and less than the next one. Then you can begin to master direct and reverse counting using the same ladders as an example. Task options:

1. Give your child the third and fourth stripes (blue and red). Have him determine the larger number and check if it is correct by measuring the length of both with a white cube.
2. Move on to simple arithmetic. First, use an example to show that if you put a red block, and next to it a blue block with a white block, you will get segments of the same length (4 = 3 + 1). Gradually make the tasks more difficult. This will help you master addition. Then add examples in which one of the two sticks disappeared. These will be subtraction examples.
3. Learn to multiply. Place one white stick in front of the baby, the child will voice its meaning “one”. Add a second one, ask how much you get. Gradually you will master multiplication by two, showing longer and longer stripes.
4. Lay out 4 white cubes to make a square. Introduce your child to fractions and fractions. Ask him which part is larger: a quarter or a half.

Measurement-Based Jobs

This is very important stage classes. Examples of measurement tasks that you can set for your child:

1. Hide the red stripe. Tell your child that the one you hid is longer than the blue one, but shorter than the orange one. He will try to guess which one is hidden.
2. Measure with different sticks small items located in game room. Let the baby find things equal to the length of, for example, an orange block.
3. Build a path, skipping sections of different sizes. The child will fill them with suitable pieces.
4. Compare objects and bars several at a time, working through the concepts of “more”, “less”, “shorter”, “longer”.

Determine the composition of the number

Invite your child to make a train out of colored sticks, for example, pink, blue, red, yellow. These are carriages. Before seating passengers on the train, let the child name how many seats there are in each of them. It is necessary to do this in a practical way. The kid places white sticks on the carriages. One piece - one place. This work will lead to the understanding that each number consists of several ones.

Logic problems

A good option is “Riddles”. Model the situation for your child: a train consists of three cars. Yellow is in the middle. The pink trailer is not the first one in the lineup. The kid will try to figure out in what order to arrange the sticks in order to meet the conditions of this statement. As you go, complicate the logic block game task by asking additional questions:

1. How many passengers are there in each carriage?
2. Total on the train?
3. There are three carriages. Together they are the same length as the orange stick. What are their colors?
4. There are three identical carriages. They correspond in length to the blue and blue sticks. What color are they?

Three-dimensional thinking exercises with Cuisenaire sticks

Such tasks will help the child to reveal his creative side and become more independent. There are different levels of complexity, from drawing up different ladders for working out counting and arithmetic operations, to drawing up complex three-dimensional figures, composing fairy tales and stories. Such activities with children in groups are especially effective, but at home you can also entertain your child well and usefully.

Building a staircase

This is a very important exercise in which the child will be able to work on counting sequence and other skills. Performed in several stages different levels difficulties:

1. We are walking up the stairs. Let the child place stick “1” in front of him and say what color it is. Then “2”, etc. When the ladder is ready, he will walk up and then down with his fingers, counting at the same time. This helps you remember numbers quickly.
2. Let the little one lay out a number ladder. The kid collects a figure from a certain color, then from a number. You can complicate the task by skipping certain steps.

Composing figures

First, draw an object schematically on a sheet of paper in a box, draw stripes inside that need to be put there, sign their numbers. Let the child assemble the figure you have envisioned on paper. Then make the task more difficult. Draw the figure inside, but don’t put any numbers. Let the child repeat the task. The last stage is the most difficult. Draw only the outlines of the figure. Let the child fill it out at his own discretion, but do not go beyond the boundaries.

After your child masters drawing figures on paper, ask him to do it on a plane. Let him add whatever he wants, or whatever you wish for: a house, a flower, a tree. The most difficult stage for older children is drawing up three-dimensional three-dimensional figures. Cuisenaire's sticks in this case act as a construction set. You can use them to collect animals, build houses, cars, and even build entire scenes.

Schemes for Cuisenaire sticks

You will be able to find a huge number of drawings on sale. There are diagrams online that can be printed in the desired format. They need to be filled completely or partially with multi-colored blocks. You can also repeat the drawing on another surface, and then compare the shapes. Schemes can be black and white or colored. Classes on them develop children's logical and creative thinking, counting skills, and color representation. There are even schemes by which you can create three-dimensional plot drawings and even entire fragments from fairy tales.

How to make sticks with your own hands

Buying a set is easier than making it, but parents do not always have this opportunity. Store-bought bars are bulky, but making them at home is very difficult. It’s easier to make flat ones for the baby. Instructions:

Prepare 10 sheets of colored cardboard. The shades must correspond to those listed in the previously presented table.

The strip sizes will be doubled. Width 2 cm, length – 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18.20 cm.

Mark the colored sheets by drawing rulers in the quantity you need.

Cut the cardboard into colorful stripes sharp scissors.

Price of Cuisenaire sticks

Store-bought kits are inexpensive, but working with them is much more convenient. They can always be ordered from the online store with home delivery. Flat ones, made at home, have one advantage - low price, but with them many tasks are impossible to complete. For the approximate cost at which you can buy cuiseneur sticks, see the table below:

Video

Subject: Problem solving. Working with counting sticks.

Target: Introduce simple arithmetic problems using counting sticks.

Tasks:
- Continue to learn how to compose and solve simple arithmetic problems involving addition and subtraction of numbers within 10.
- Introduce children to the structure of the task.
- Learn to carefully write down the solution to a problem in a notebook.
- Continue teaching children to answer questions.
- Develop attention, memory and thinking.
- Foster independence, perseverance and accuracy in work.

Material: counting sticks (for each child 20 counting sticks of different colors - 10 green, 5 pink and 5 orange); a simple pencil, a notebook with a large square - for children; for the teacher: a set of numbers from 1 to 10 and a ball for the game.

Methods and techniques: explanation, clarification, demonstration, questions for children, help, evaluation, praise.

Progress of the lesson.

Organizing time

Educator:

Good morning!
Sit down correctly, guys.
Listen carefully!
Are you all ready for class?

Children: Yes!

Educator: Hello, mathematics!

Progress of the lesson:

Educator:

“Guys, today our guests are primary school teachers...”

Today in our lesson they will see that you are cheerful, smart and brave guys, you know how to count, compare and solve problems well. If you are not afraid of difficulties, then let's begin! .

Children line up in a column and take turns answering the teacher’s questions:

1. What day of the week is it today? Yesterday? Tomorrow? 2. How many days are there in a week? (7) Name them 3. How many days off are there in a week? (2)

4. How many fingers are there on one hand? (5)

5. How many suns are there in the sky? (1)

6. How many paws do two dogs have? (8)

7. How many fingers are there on two hands? (10)

8. How many suns are there in the sky at night? (0)

9. How many ears do two cats have? (4)

10. How many eyes does a traffic light have? (3)

Guys, today we will learn how to compose and solve problems. Take green counting sticks and place 6 counting sticks in front of you. Count how many sticks you got?
- That's right, 6 green counting sticks.
- Now take one orange or pink stick and place it next to the green ones.
- How many counting sticks are there in front of you?
- Correctly 7 counting sticks.
- Let’s come up with a problem about what we just did.
- There were 6 sticks in front of you. You put down 1 more stick. How many counting sticks are there now? This is the task you and I have.
- Guys, a task always has a condition and a question.
- The condition of our task is this: we had 6 counting sticks. We added 1 more stick.
- Which of you can repeat the conditions of the problem?
- Well done, guys did it.
- The condition is short story. The condition always contains numbers. What are the numbers in this problem?
- The correct numbers are 6 and 1.
- There is also a question in the problem. What is the question in this problem?
- How many counting sticks are there?
- Guys, does everyone understand what the condition and question in the problem are?
- Let's repeat the condition and question of our task once again.
- Problem condition: there were 6 sticks, 1 more stick was added.
- Problem question: How many sticks are there?
- Let's write down our task in a notebook.
(the teacher lays out or writes down numbers on the board).
6 + 1 =
- There is also an answer in the problem.
- What is the answer to this problem?
- Correct, 7. Write down the solution to the problem. 6 + 1 = 7

- Place 9 counting sticks in front of you.
- Now remove the 4 sticks.
- How many counting sticks do you have left?
- Let's repeat the conditions of the problem.
- Problem condition: We laid out 9 counting sticks. Then we removed 4 sticks.
- What is the question of the problem?
- Question: How many counting sticks are left?
- Guys, let’s write down the problem in your notebook.
9 – 4 =
- What is the answer to this problem?- Correct, 5. Write down the solution to the problem.
9 – 4 = 5
- We will solve one more problem with you.
- Place 7 green counting sticks in front of you.
- Add 3 more sticks of a different color.
- Guys, this is the condition of the task.
- Which of you can tell the question of this task?
- Question: How many counting sticks did you get?
- Write down the task in your notebook.
7 + 3 =
- What is the answer to the problem?
- That's right, 10. Write it down.
7 + 3 = 10

- Let's solve the last problem for today.
- Place 8 counting sticks in front of you.
- Now remove 5 sticks.
- This is the condition of our task.
- What is the question of this task?
- Question: How many counting sticks are left?
- Write down the task in your notebook.
8 – 5 =
- What is the answer to this problem?
- Correct, 3. Write down the solution to the problem.
8 – 5 = 3
- How did you solve this problem?
- That's right, you took away 5 sticks from 8.
- What answer did you receive?
- 3 sticks left.
- Now let's play with you a little.

The game “Which number is missing” is played.
The teacher lays out a number line from 1 to 10 on the board. Children close their eyes. The teacher removes some number. Children raise their hands and name which number is missing. You can complicate the game and remove 2 numbers.

Physical exercise. "Who is the most attentive"

Target: strengthen children’s ability to perceive a task by ear (number of claps), compare actions with words; develop attention and reaction speed.

Progress: The teacher explains to the children the rules of the game, with one clap the children walk around the room, with two claps they get into the stork pose, with three claps they get into the frog pose. The winner is the one who has never made a mistake, i.e. the most attentive.

Educator : Guys, we solved problems with the help of counting sticks, and now let’s play a game“Lay out a geometric figure.”

These can be geometric shapes, houses, or just snowflakes.
At the end of the game, I praise all the children and note the most beautiful, neatly laid out figures.

Then a didactic game is held

“Name the geometric shapes and put them together into shapes.

Game "Butterfly on a Flower"

Game "What, where?"

Target: strengthen children's ability to navigate in space, distinguish between right and left side, use words and prepositions (right, left, ahead, behind; above, under, between); develop dexterity and speed of reaction.

Material: ball.

Progress: The game takes place in a circle with a ball. The teacher takes the ball, throws it to one of the children and asks: “What’s to your right?” The child catches the ball, answers the question and becomes the leader.

Questions for children: “What is over your head? Who's ahead of you? What's behind you? Who's on your left? Who's on your right?" Etc. The game is played at a fast pace.

(on the board there is a large illustration for the fairy tale "Turnip")

The turnip sat firmly in the ground,
One can't do it alone.
And after the old grandfather
The tail is long and stretches.
Everyone came, one by one.
How many were there in total? (6)

Educator: What fairy tale are these characters from?

Children: From Russian folk tale"Turnip"

How much is grandma worth? (second)

What about grandfather? (first)

Who is third? (granddaughter)

Who stands between the granddaughter and the cat? (Bug)

Who's standing last? (mouse)

Educator: Guys, what does this fairy tale teach?

Children: Friendship, the need to help each other, etc. ( children's answers)

Educator: “Well done guys, you are all very attentive! You did an excellent job with all the tasks.

Guys, what did we do in class today?
- That's right, they solved problems, laid out counting sticks, played games, found the missing number and named the neighbors of the number.
- Did you enjoy solving problems?
- Every task necessarily has a condition and a question.
- I liked how you worked today.

Games - puzzles with counting sticks.

Older children preschool age They enjoy solving riddles, solving various puzzles, and love games of ingenuity. One of the most accessible types of ingenuity tasks are games with counting sticks. They are also called problems of ingenuity of a geometric nature, because in the course of solving there is the creation various forms and transformation of some figures into others. During such games, preschoolers willingly overcome significant difficulties and can give up momentary desires that arise in the course of performing one or another task. game problem. In addition to the pride of knowing one’s intelligence and confidence in one’s abilities, games - puzzles with counting sticks develop such qualities as perseverance, perseverance in achieving a goal, resourcefulness, develop constructive skills, mental and creative activity.

To play, you will need a set of student counting sticks or any sticks of the same length and thickness, strips of cardboard, even matches from which the sulfur has previously been removed. If you play with children, you can give oral tasks. If a child plays alone, it is good to prepare cards on which the conditions of the game task are written (if he can read), or it is schematically indicated how many sticks should be taken, what transformation should be made and what figure should be the result.

For example: from 7 sticks you need to make 3 triangles.

It is good if children come up with problems themselves and write (model) them for solution by other people (children or adults).

Tasks - puzzles with counting sticks can vary in difficulty level:

To compose given figures from a certain number of sticks. For example, to make a rhombus from 5 sticks:

Rectangle of 8:

To transform shapes by removing a given number of sticks.

For example, remove 4 sticks to make 3 squares:

Remove 8 sticks to make a cross:

To transform figures by rearranging sticks.

For example, move 1 stick so that the house faces the other way:

Arrange 3 sticks so that the cow waves her tail and looks back:

When children have mastered all 3 difficulty levels of puzzle games, encourage their creativity in creating their own variations logical problems. Create longer and more complex tasks. Using sequential transformations, compose stories and fairy tales.

In the meantime, you are just learning, we invite you to guess the author’s problem - a puzzle:

We'll take 6 sticks

And let's build a new house!

If 2 is rearranged,

They won’t be able to live in that house,

It is no longer a house, but a flag.

Who can do this?

I wanted to dig-

I need to put the stick away

And shift the other one.

So I'll get the spatula!

Is it ready for you?

Let's move the stick again

And let's take one below

And we'll put it in a box.

The chair is out!

Relax!

How many sticks? Count.

Did you count?

There are four of them!

Spread your legs wider

The back must be put down -

The chair will serve as a table!

If you're not tired of it,

We continue our work:

Let's make a road sign

Or a triangular flag.

2 shifted again

And we got the arrow!

Only the arrow broke -

There is only one stick left.

We'll put it on the table -

We can make a triangle!

Each of us has been familiar with such a basic guide since school as counting sticks. I remember when I went to 1st grade, for some reason my parents could not find factory-made sticks in stores, and for some time I and several other classmates had to carry matches with the sulfur heads removed to mathematics lessons)))

Of course, these days there is no such problem, although for the games I want to suggest today, colored popsicle sticks, matches and even pencils are quite suitable. We bought 2 identical sets of counting sticks for games and activities. In addition, we also have beautiful painted ice cream sticks, I’ll tell you about them next time.

Do you know that with counting sticks Can you do more than just math and counting? Even the smallest children can play with them and develop in different directions at the same time!

For example, load sticks one at a time into the machine — good activity for development fine motor skills. You can also name the colors of the sticks.

For older children, you can give a more complicated building: load 10 sticks into the machine (or 5 yellow, three pink, four orange and one green).

We sort the sticks by color.

Offer your baby doll plates that match the color of the sticks (in place of the plates, you can take ordinary sheets of colored paper or cardboard).

Ask them to arrange the sticks by color into matching plates.

“Drawing” with counting sticks

Why not draw by laying out various pictures from counting sticks? Depending on the age of the child, choose various ways and difficulty levels:

• Laying out geometric shapes (left) and simple objects made from them: triangle + square = house (right).

You can lay out figures of different colors according to instructions, ask to repeat the same as your mother, or make the same figure, but of a different color.

And, of course, you can make calculations: how many sticks are needed to fold such a triangle, square, trapezoid? What shape can be made using only 3 sticks? What about 4?

• Laying out silhouettes along a template outline.

Make several template diagrams in advance: lay out various compositions from sticks on a sheet of paper and outline them with felt-tip pens of the desired color. The baby will need to place the sticks directly on the picture, selecting them according to the given color.

You can complicate the task by suggesting that you lay out the drawing not on a sheet of paper, but next to it, using the diagram as a sample.

• Another option for “drawing”: draw on sheets of paper elements of some objects, creatures, etc.: a face that can become the sun with the help of ray sticks, the silhouette of a hedgehog that needs to be added with needle sticks, crossbars that can become a fence .

Game "Do as I do"

The adult lays out the sticks in any color sequence (horizontally or vertically), and the child’s task is to repeat it.

Rug

Give your child a piece of mesh and show how to thread sticks through the holes. You can set a certain color sequence and ask to continue it. This game miraculously promotes the development of motor skills and attentiveness.

Collecting flowers

Give your child artificial flowers with holes in the middle and show them how to insert sticks into them as stems and collect flowers into a bouquet.

Sorting game with sticks

In addition, using counting sticks, you can make a sorter and a simulator for fine motor skills of your fingers!

For the base, use an ice cream/mayonnaise bucket or a tin can with non-sharp edges (for example, a mixture).

Glue sectors of colored paper onto the lid (we used self-adhesive), make holes with nail scissors - and a wonderful educational toy is ready! With its help, your baby will not only train his fingers by inserting sticks into the holes, but will also develop color perception, and with your help, he will learn colors.

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It is necessary to introduce the baby to basic geometric shapes. Show him a rectangle, a circle, a triangle. Explain what a rectangle (square, rhombus) can be. Explain what a side is and what an angle is. Why is a triangle called a triangle (three angles). Explain that there are other geometric shapes that differ in the number of angles.

Let the child make geometric figures from sticks and simply modify them. Tasks are given with gradual complication. The child first makes object images from sticks: houses, boats, simple buildings, furniture, then geometric shapes: squares, triangles, rectangles and quadrangles of different sizes and with different aspect ratios, and then again object images, but based on preliminary analysis and division complex shape highlighting geometric shapes. Geometric figures are now used as a template to determine the shape of objects.

You can give it the required dimensions based on the number of sticks. Invite him, for example, to fold a rectangle with sides of three sticks and four sticks; a triangle with sides of two and three sticks.

Also make shapes of different sizes and shapes with different numbers of sticks. Ask your child to compare the shapes. Another option would be combined figures, in which some sides will be common.

For example, from five sticks you need to simultaneously make a square and two identical triangles; or make two squares out of ten sticks: large and small (the small square is made up of two sticks inside the large one).

By combining counting sticks, the child begins to better understand mathematical concepts (“number”, “more”, “less”, “same”, “figure”, “triangle”, etc.).

Using chopsticks is also useful to form letters and numbers. In this case, a comparison of concept and symbol occurs. Let the child match the number made up of sticks with the number of sticks that makes up this number.

Exercise “Do as I do”

Regular school counting sticks are also perfect for playing with two-year-olds. On a flat surface, the adult lays out some simple figure from sticks, adding one each time, and invites the child to do the same. So the baby gradually masters the action according to the model, still in the most elementary form:

a) how many sticks are enough to take to make a triangle? (Three.) Take three sticks and make a triangle;

b) how many sticks are enough to add to make a quadrilateral? (One.) Add one and make a quadrilateral. What does your quad look like? (Per square.)

c) fold such a lamp. What else does this look like?

d) fold the following boat:

e) put together a vase like this:

f) fold the following candy:

g) fold the TV:

h) come up with your own figure and make it out of sticks.

Design and transformation tasks

Exercise 1

Divide a rectangle of 6 sticks into 2 equal squares with one stick, a square of 4 sticks into 2 equal triangles, rectangles.

Exercise 2

Move one stick so that the house turns in the other direction.

Exercise 3

Arrange four sticks in a shape similar to a key to make three squares.

Exercise 4

What is the smallest number of sticks that need to be moved to remove debris from the dust pan?

Exercise 5

Move two sticks so that the cow is facing the other direction.

Exercise 6

In this figure, rearrange three sticks so that you get four equal quadrangles.

Exercise 7

In the figure representing an arrow, rearrange four sticks to form four triangles.

Exercise 8

In a figure consisting of four squares, rearrange three sticks so that you get three identical squares.

Exercise 9

Rebuild the ship into a tank by moving six sticks.

Exercise 10

Rebuild the vase into a TV by moving five sticks.

Exercise 11

In a figure of six squares, remove three sticks so that four squares remain.

The ages of two to three years are called the “big leap year.” And indeed, between two and three years the child has brilliant achievements: speech develops intensively, purposefulness, self-awareness, and social interaction with peers appear. Children master creative activities: drawing, the simplest forms of design, children develop the ability to fantasize, and the foundations of intelligence are laid.