Improves Spatial Recognition: Each solid-wood, detachable shape piece is a unique shape and serves as a practical teaching tool for understanding the many kinds of edges and corners that make up a geometric form.
Enhances Numeracy & Fine Motor Skills: The numbered shapes can be arranged in a certain order, used to demonstrate basic mathematical concepts, stacked high to provide a motor challenge, and of course inserted into the appropriate cavities to finish the clock face.
Stimulates Concentration: Children enjoy being able to decode codes, and reading a clock is one of them. Knowing the rules and using them to figure out something is an exciting skill to add to a mathematical tool kit. Using letters to build words or determining what time it is when you know where the hands on a clock are, requires focus and patience when children start their learning journey.
Learning To Tell Time: The ideas of "before," "after," "early," and "late" as well as phrases like "half past" and "quarter of" are specific to telling time.
The movement of the clock hands, which indicate breakfast, lunch, and sleep, can also serve as a novel approach to discuss the day's events as they occurred in the morning, midday, and evening.
