The long rods stimulates the tactile-muscular sense, and composing the rods in steps helps the eye to perceive size. Doing this type of activity helps to understand concretely the concept of long and short, the rods, in fact, do not differ in colour precisely to highlight the quality of length. The game encourages the development of eye-hand coordination, attention and concentration and indirectly prepares for the "mathematical mind" and the taking of the writing instrument. They help in the understanding of the numbering scale and the decimal system.
Sensory Material 0-3: made up of a set of objects "grouped according to a certain physical quality" - weight, temperature, size, shape, colour, sound, etc. - which are then used to create the sensory material. - Refining the perception of each sense encourages exploration and knowledge. From approximately 24 months. The rods are made of fir wood, hand-painted in red with Luxens water-based paint with reduced environmental impact, certified by the Ecolabel. It can be used in various play contexts and is a very useful teaching aid.