Plus-Plus - Construction Building Toy, Open Play Set - 300 Piece - Neon Color Mix
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Pros
- This toy encourages creativity and concentration.
- The pieces are sturdy and interlock easily and even allow for curves.
- Finished creations will stay intact which provides great incentive for students to work toward a complex creation.
Considerations
- The mini pieces could be somewhat difficult for children with fine motor weaknesses, but since the pieces stay interlocked, they may find this less frustrating than other building sets.
Mindprint Expert Review
This is an excellent building toy that allows for endless creativity and will help students with fine motor skills and spatial perception. The pieces are sturdy, thick plastic puzzle shapes of less than one inch in size. Every piece is exactly the same, differing only in color. Students interlock the simplistic pieces to build 2D designs or 3D structures. Plus Plus can be purchased in bright or pastel colors. Students will appreciate that the pieces are flexible so they can make rounded edges and more realistic designs. Plus-Plus is a great creation toy that will have longevity. It can be enjoyed by older students who once enjoyed building but feel they have outgrown most construction sets and yet it is still easily usable by younger students.
Academic Benefits
Improves academic skills
- 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)
Fun
Engaging for the Mindprint recommended age range
- 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
Easy to Use
Understandable for children in the Mindprint recommended age range
- 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
Manufacturer Description
Plus-Plus is a whole new class of construction toy! One simple shape contains endless possibilities and hours of fun. Each piece easily connects to the next and lets your imagination create colorful flat mosaics or work in 3-D to make more intricate builds. Even curves are possible thanks to the unique design of this deceptively simple shape! A perfect STEM toy to develop fine motor skills, focus and patience - as well as design, imagination and creativity! All Plus-Plus sets are compatible with each other and this open play set adds more pieces and colors to the collection for more possibilities and fun. This 300 piece set contains 6 different neon colors. Also includes an Idea Guide Booklet for building. BPA-free and phthalate-free. Designed and made in Denmark.