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JENZAC™ can be used as an education tool for math, science and graphics (left); while improving the skills listed below (right). We are working to add new files to help in the class room.  Two of four new ones have been added below.  The old volume and area lesson is being reworked to follow as lesson 3 and a new lesson 4 be added with in a week or so:

  • Visual motor co-ordination
  • Speed at assembling pieces
  • Concentration
  • Sequential thinking
  • Logical thinking
  • Spatial or space perception
  • Abstract visual problem solving
  • Visual analysis
  • Construction of objects
  • Speed of processing novel information
  • Fine motor co-ordination
  • Planning
  • Following directions

 

For best results, use JENZAC™ as a reward for your students prior to the lessons.  The should be just for fun to allow them to get familiar with the pieces. This can be accomplished in a competition or strategy game with other students or just simple enjoying puzzle solving fun. (Use the information below to adjust the level of difficulty.)

JENZAC™ has something for a wide range of ages and skill levels.  Each student should start where they feel comfortable and able to solve the puzzle.  Then, they should be challenged to do the next level of difficulty.  The level of difficulty varies with the shape and the time given to solve it.  Obviously, the less time given to solve a puzzle, the more difficult it becomes.  Just don’t cut the time too short.  In addition, the following general progression is recommended in order of ascending difficulty:

  • The following 2-dimentional shapes are the simplest and can be solved with the single cube placed anywhere within the shape.  The shapes are arranged in order of difficulty from left to right.  Once a student has gotten comfortable solving these shapes with the freedom of placing the single cube where and when they like; the puzzle can be made more difficult by stipulating the single cube location and making it stationary before any other pieces are used to solve the shape.

           

  • The remaining 2-dimentional shapes are arranged in order of difficulty from left to right.  Some can be solved with the single cube located in several places and a few have only one solution know at this time. (Excluding rotations and flips of the same solution of course.)  

           

  • The following 3-dimentional shapes can be solved with the single cube placed anywhere within the shape.  Again, once a student has gotten comfortable solving these shapes with the freedom of placing the single cube where and when they like; the puzzle can be made more difficult by stipulating the single cube location and making it stationary before any other pieces are used to solve the shape.  

           

  • The remaining 3-dimentional shapes are arranged in order of difficulty from left to right and down.  Some can be solved with the single cube located in several places and a few have only one solution know at this time. (Excluding rotations and flips of the same solution of course.)  

           

 

 

 

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