Pixy Cubes is a visual puzzle game involving 16 colorful, engraved cubes that can be used to play several visual memory games or to copy or design visual patterns. The activities target a range of skills, but are particularly good for strengthening visual spatial perception and visual memory. The speed game involves racing against opponents to recreate a pattern with four cubes. The memory game involves seeing a design and then recreating it by memory with the option to get a visual hint on the reverse side of the pattern card. Students also can play independently or with peers to copy 4x4 grid designs with their cubes or create their own designs. There are 20 different designs to copy that increase in difficulty. Grid lines are provided for a few of the cards to help students see and execute the design more easily. However, the designs are challenging, so students on the younger end of the age range will benefit from adult support for how to systematically copy the pattern by isolating one cube at a time on the design card and going in order to find the correct cubes (left to right, or up and down). Overall this is a fantastic activity for students to strengthen their visual spatial reasoning and visual memory skills and will be suitable for all ability levels, from those who need support in these areas to those looking to nurture their strengths. The speed component of the multi-player options is fine for students who are already strong in the other skills, but should really be considered as secondary to an already valuable visual challenge.

• Provides sufficient and varied types of practice problems to maximize understanding and generalization of the targeted skill/concept
• Manufacturer claims alignment with Common Core/Known Standards
• Presents educational concepts accurately
• Explains answers so students can learn from mistakes
• Better for teaching the skill to new or struggling learners
• Better for practicing or refreshing the skill
• Skills are practiced through authentic, meaningful problems (not just rote practice)

• Appropriate for a broad age range to use and enjoy
• Visually appealing to children in the target age range
• Adults would enjoy playing with a child
• For electronic games, gives positive or encouraging feedback
• Offers ongoing, progressive challenge
• Overall - Enjoyable. Given the option, students would choose this option

• Provides teaching guidance for adults to support the child and set appropriate goals
• Student should be able to use independently after first use
• Student graduates to the next level or topic only after meeting a benchmark
• Can effectively understand and monitor student's progress (email report or in product)
• Does not require excessive set-up time after first time use
• Can be fun as a single player game
• Multi-player game which fosters collaboration or cooperation
• Well-made for the cost
• For electronic games, can play without sound
• For electronic games, allows user to save work
• For electronic games, voice/sounds are appealing and pronounces words properly
• Provides options to play in languages other than English/Good for ELL
• Presents information in multiple formats (voice over, pictures and text, etc.)
• Overall - Easy to use

• Visual Discrimination
• Requires scanning in multiple places for words, objects or numbers

Pixy Cubes contains three activities in one creative game! Play the challenge cards or design colorful pictures with 16 vibrant cubes. Sharpen your memory and spatial reasoning with the challenge cards. For a unique 3 dimensional puzzle, pick a design card to duplicate, or explore your creativity and design your own. Pixy Cubes will stimulate everyone’s mind! Includes 16 cubes, 80 design templates and 13 challenge cards.