. The kindergarten building gifts . No. 5. Showing Hinged Ball,closed, ?with its axial division in-dicated, before the elements ofform within are brought No. 6. Showing Hinged BaU,turned inside out with its invisiblecenter, diametral lines and axialplanes changed into the corneredges and faces of the Cube. First of these is the hinged ball (see Fig. 5).This was sent by Miss Florence Lawson, of the LosAngeles State Normal School of California. Thesimplicity of this device at once presents itself. Afterexperimenting with it in Chicago and elsewhere,experience has shown that the child of th
. The kindergarten building gifts . No. 5. Showing Hinged Ball,closed, ?with its axial division in-dicated, before the elements ofform within are brought No. 6. Showing Hinged BaU,turned inside out with its invisiblecenter, diametral lines and axialplanes changed into the corneredges and faces of the Cube. First of these is the hinged ball (see Fig. 5).This was sent by Miss Florence Lawson, of the LosAngeles State Normal School of California. Thesimplicity of this device at once presents itself. Afterexperimenting with it in Chicago and elsewhere,experience has shown that the child of three years THE se;cond gift. 69 or four years is not ready for it and almost invaria-bly tries to shut it up, seeming distressed and an-noyed when it falls open. Whereas the children offive and six are usually delighted with it. Trans-forming it from sphere to cube (see Fig. 6), andfrom cube back to sphere many times with endlesssatisfaction. One boy of six after examining it for some time,opening it and shutting it again and again said med-itatively, as if speaking to himself, I knew thatapples had seeds inside of them, but I never knewbefore that balls
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