Teachables Pattern Blocks Class Pack - Solid Plastic

Transform your maths lessons with the Pattern Blocks Class Pack – a complete hands-on geometry kit designed for classrooms that thrive on creativity and deep mathematical exploration. This comprehensive resource includes six individual 500-piece sets of durable, 5 mm thick solid plastic pattern blocks (TFC10010), each housed in a practical storage container for easy organisation. Each set contains a vibrant assortment of geometric shapes in six colours—50 yellow hexagons, 100 red trapezoids, 100 tan rhombuses, 50 orange squares, 100 green triangles, and 100 blue parallelograms—providing a total of 3,000 pieces across the kit. To extend learning beyond pattern making, the pack also includes the 48-page *Pattern Blocks Book* by Dr. Paul Swan. This insightful guide unlocks the full potential of pattern blocks, offering rich, curriculum-aligned activities covering symmetry, transformations, geometry, and shape composition. Discover how different shapes can form the same area, explore lines of symmetry, or teach reflectional transformations through hands-on inquiry. Ideal for collaborative group work or focused individual tasks, this set supports long-term use and curriculum integration across multiple year levels. It’s the ultimate toolkit to turn abstract geometry into vibrant, tactile understanding in your classroom.

Educational Benefits:

• Encourages exploration of shape properties, equivalence, and spatial reasoning through hands-on manipulation.
• Supports the development of early to advanced geometry skills including symmetry, tessellation, and transformation.
• Enables visual and tactile understanding of mathematical relationships and proportional reasoning.
• Promotes critical thinking and problem-solving through open-ended investigations and structured activities.

Classroom Ideas:

• Use the Pattern Blocks Book to guide small group geometry lessons on symmetry and transformations.
• Create visual art projects that incorporate mathematical patterns and tessellations using the six shapes.
• Challenge students to build the same shapes using different block combinations to explore equivalence.
• Integrate into maths centres for independent pattern creation, classification, and fractional composition tasks.

Information:

• Ages: Suitable for Foundation to Year 6
• Measurements: Each block is 5 mm thick
• Set includes: 6 x 500-piece block sets (total 3,000 pieces) and 1 x 48-page Pattern Blocks Book by Dr. Paul Swan
• Colours & Shapes: Yellow hexagons, red trapezoids, tan rhombuses, orange squares, green triangles, blue parallelograms