How can adults facilitate intellectual development with Tetrakys?
Tetrakys is a playful and didactic construction material what can be used as an autonomous tool without any external concept. Nevertheless, adults can also become facilitators and put a “step” to facilitate the process of mental construction of the children.
These "steps" are games and logical challenges that we present in the section of GAMES AND CHALLENGES. These games and challenges have different levels of comprehension. The learning slope is not rigid, but it will depend on the aptitudes of each child, on the time that the parents, teachers or other facilitators play with them and of their ages.
Tetrakys can be used as well as a didactic resource to facilitate the understanding of school math. The recommendation though is still the same: keep the playful point of view.
Every child will have to have a complete Tetrakys toy, and play with it at least half an hour of free game per day. . On the other hand we have the ruled games and challenges. In those games the facilitators propose a game or challenge and set the rules, allowing the children to play and to solve the challenge by themselves.
To become facilitators implies saying the least possible thing. The children should resolve the games by themselves. If the children find some part too difficult, we can make ask them questions, giving out some clues which will help them to understand the problem. The mistakes of the children are an opportunity for real learning.
Every advance in comprehension should be gradual respecting the learning rhythm of each child. The learning slope should never be aggressive; if children understand complex systems, they’ll go further than what it was expected for them in school. In the contents of this web you can find useful suggestions For parents and For teachers.
