Very Satisfying Shackman Fraction Learner Set, Complete with Spinner, 1960s vintage Japanese nesting eggs perhaps done in art/illustration school

perhaps done in art/illustration school in the 50s or so--I can take or leave most drawings of that sort

surely made in school

I have been gravitating to the work of lots of Canadians of late

and one helmeted knight

Very Satisfying Shackman Fraction Learner Set, Complete with Spinner, 1960s vintage Japanese nesting eggs perhaps done in art/illustration schoolI've had just a couple of these Shackman "Fraction Learner" sets over the years and will always scoop them up when I come across them. Definitely an excellent tool for teaching fractions as portions of a whole, with six circles divided up into differently sized slices, and a corresponding spinner to direct activity but also just excellent aesthetically and design wise, and there is great pleasure in mixing and matching the segments comprising each