Relax with STEM Article by Tina Manzer, Editorial Director of EdPlay Magazine: Stress-reducing fidget toys, STEM, and Fractiles
Will the Real STEM Toys Please Stand Up Article by Mark Carson, President and Co-Founder of Fat Brain Toys. Fractiles is at the top of the list of Carson's favorite toys "contributing to STEM-related pursuits."
“For the past several years, my wife and I have featured Fractiles in workshops we do with public school students. We have been following the currently popular STEM philosophy of combining Science,
Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics to get kids interested in how to teach themselves and learn independently, with really promising results.
Fractiles is ideally suited to this kind of program and extremely popular with our students as it encourages creativity and innovation. We wish there were other materials of a similarly versatile and compelling nature.”
Professor John L. Hall
University of Colorado, Boulder
Nobel Prize for Physics, 2005
Lindy Hall
John Hall
Retired teacher
25 years teaching English (7th grade)
Boulder Public Schools
15 years as Consultant and Educational Materials Specialist
Co-founder of Sci-Teks Discovery
Program for Kids
44 years as Scientist in Optics and Physics at NIST & CU
Nobel Laureate in Physics, 2005
Co-founder with his wife Lindy Hall of Sci-Teks Discovery Program for
Kids
The Sci-Teks Discovery Program for Kids is the concept of Lindy Hall, and focuses on beneficial things we can do as adults to improve the circumstances for the next generation.
EdPlay Magazine's March/April 2017 issue featured an informative article by Tina Manzer, Editorial Director, about stress-reducing fidget toys, STEM, and Fractiles. Read the article.
STEM Education is about the Integration of Curriculum in our schools. STEM Education transforms the typical teacher-centered classroom by engaging students in exploratory learning, discovery, and problem-solving. Traditionally, the four parts of STEM (science, technology engineering and mathematics) have been taught separately and mostly independently from each other. In STEM Education, these subjects all play an integral part in the teaching of the whole. STEM Education provides a creative, hands on approach to problem solving by applying what has been learned. Students learn by doing.
All students benefit from the STEM program because STEM teaches both independent innovation and working as part of a team. Students explore in greater depths of all of the STEM subjects and the skills they learn; skills which are going to be required for today’s students to be tomorrow’s global leaders. All jobs are requiring workers to have a greater ability to think critically, work as a member of a team and independently, and close the performance gap between our American students and those being produced in other countries.
