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teaching reflection, goal setting, and the thrifty use of materials”( Clemens,
1975, 3.) Stiny describes Froebel’s method in detail as follows: (Stiny, 1980,
409)
The gifts are presented to the child in sequence. Individual solids
(the coloured balls of gift 1, and the sphere, cylinder, and cube of
gift 2) are followed by composite ones (the divided cubes of gifts
3-6). Planes (the tablets of gift 7), lines (the slats, sticks, rings,
and string of gifts 8-12), and points (gift 13) complete the series.
Each succeeded gifts is spatially more articulate or spatially
more abstract.
Then he describes Gifts 3-6 (the building gifts) in detail. About them, he
indicates that: (Stiny, 1980, 409-10)
Gifts 3 and 4 are cubes with edges two inches long. Gift 3 is
divided into eight smaller cubes, each having edges one inch
long, by three mutually perpendicular cuts. Gift 4 is divided into
eight oblong blocks, each two inches long, one inch wide, and
half an inch deep, by a single vertical cut and three horizontal
ones.
Gifts 5 and 6 are elaborations of gifts 3 and 4, respectively; both
are cubes with edges three inches long.
Gift 5 is cut twice in three mutually perpendicular directions to
produce twenty-seven equal cubes, each the same as those in gift
3. Twenty-one of these cubes are not divided again; three are cut
once diagonally into ‘half-cubes’; three are cut twice diagonally
into ‘quarter-cubes’. Thus there are thirty-nine separate pieces in
gift 5.
Gift 6 is produced from twenty-seven oblong blocks, each the
same as those in gift 4. Eighteen of these blocks are used as they
are; three are cut once lengthwise to make ‘pillars’; six are cut
once crosswise to make ‘squares’. Thus there are thirty-six
separate pieces in gift 6.
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