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Cognitive matching skill learning aid and related methods
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Inventors: Lee, Melinda L.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Fernstrom; Kurt
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Allen, Dyer, Doppelt, Milbrath & Gilchrist, P.A.
A cognitive matching skill learning aid may include a base having a plurality of different object images thereon and a respective matching block for each object image on the base. The blocks may be movable relative to the base. Moreover, each matching block may have a plurality of sides, and the sides of a given matching block may have different indicia thereon representative of different cognitive matching skill levels with respect to the corresponding object image on the base. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION In view of the foregoing background, it is therefore an object of the present invention to provide and educational aid for learning cognitive matching skills.
This and other objects, features, and advantages in accordance with the present invention are provided by a cognitive matching skill learning aid which may include a base having a plurality of different object images thereon and a respective matching block for each object image on the base.
The blocks may be movable relative to the base.
Moreover, each matching block may have a plurality of sides, and the sides of a given matching block may have different indicia thereon representative of different cognitive matching skill levels with respect to the corresponding object image on the base.
Thus, a single base and set of matching blocks may advantageously be used for teaching progressively more advanced matching skills to children as they grow and reach new developmental levels, for example.
More particularly, the indicia on each matching block may be one of the following: the respective object image for the matching block; a name of the respective object image for the matching block; and at least one of an upper case initial letter of a name of the respective object image for the matching block and a lower case initial letter of the name of the respective object image for the matching block.
Furthermore, one of the indicia on each matching block may be an arbitrary indicia for grouping matching blocks based upon common characteristics between respective object images thereof.
In particular, the arbitrary indicia may be colors, and the common characteristics may include at least one of names of the object images beginning with long vowel sounds, names of the object images beginning with short vowel sounds, names of the object images beginning with consonants, and object images corresponding to numbers.
Thus, by way of example, red indicia on a side of a matching block may correspond to object images with names beginning with short vowel sounds, blue indicia may correspond to object image names beginning with long vowel sounds, yellow indicia may correspond to numbers, etc
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