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Visual Sense: Mixed Impressions

Decanomial Square
Materials Squares and rectangles in colors corresponding to the bead stair,
representing the ten factors in the decanomial square. The colors are:
1 red, 3 green, 5 pink, 7 yellow, 9 light blue, 11 purple, 13 white, 15
brown, 17 dark blue and 19 gold.
The squares and rectangles are stored in separate compartments within
a wooden box. There can be a prepared frame available on to which
the large square can be built.

Purposes  To make the square


 Discrimination of size and shape
 Indirect preparation for squaring a number

Age 4.5 and up

Prerequisite Binomial/trinomial cube, graded geometric figures


Visual Sense: Mixed Impressions
Decanomial Square

Presentation 1. Invite a child. “I would like to show you the decanomial square.”
2. Show how to take out a stack, replace it. Invite child to repeat.
3. Remove/scatter all squares. Show how to build it concentrically.
4. Remove red square and place it in upper right corner of the board.
5. Place the green square kiddy-corner to the red.
6. Remove green rectangles. Lay in a column on lower half of board.
Place in gaps to fill in the square.
7. Repeat with pink square and rectangles, followed by remaining
colors in order, remembering to build from square to perimeter.
8. Allow child to take over, staying throughout building process.
9. Show child how to put work away, beginning with gold, stacking
first the square then the next largest rectangles, and so on.

Control of Visual Disharmony


Error

Following 1. Building The Square


Exercises Have the child pick any color and take out all the pieces of that color
on the table. Find the square. See how many squares you can make
by super-imposing other pairs of pieces on the square. Move
combination to left side of table. Continue combining other pieces to
make all the squares. Invite her to choose another color and see if it
makes as many squares. (leaving her to discover)

2. Building Binomials
Take out the gold square. Take out any two squares
that just fit corner to corner on top of the base. Find the
appropriate rectangles to fill in the rest of the pieces
that will fit the binomial as follows.
Visual Sense: Mixed Impressions
Decanomial Square

3. Building Trinomials:
Present only if the child doesn’t make the connections
on their own. Same procedure as building the
binomial, just use three squares to start.

Language None

Sensorial None
Games

Pedagogical
Notes

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