The developing game "Unicub" (B. P. Nikitin). Children's educational games, lessons, crafts Unicub

Tasks for the game "Unicub

U-1. Sleep cubes in the box. With the smallest (1.5 - 3 years), it is better to start with laying cubes into a box. "Let's lay down so that everything donyshko in the box is red!" - And, of course, to appeal what happened well. Dear toddlers only a cube without red faces. It can be laid in the middle in the middle so that it looks like a flashlight.

U-2. Who will be able to fold the cubes so that the bottom is blue, the middle is yellow, and the top is red? Kid can show a drawing in the book.

U-3. Red train. You need to fold the train from the cubes, as shown in the figure. Roofs, walls of wagons and electric locomotives - red (from those sides that are visible in the picture). Put, and better place or hang vertically in front of the baby Figure y-1. The length of the train can be exactly the same as in the picture, and more. It depends on the mood of the "Machine". The main difficulty of the task for the baby is to simultaneously monitor two planes and besides the appropriate cubes (with 2 and 3 red faces). If he previously performed the task of "lay pattern", the task for it will be relatively easy. But if he makes red only the roofs of the wagons, and the walls will not turn out of all the wagons - praise it.

- Good painters painted roofs - all red. Now let's see how the malariers painted the walls.
And "go" index and middle fingers along the train. Stop near the car with a wall of another color and think: "Can the wagon in the repaint or not?" The decision must take the "machinist" itself.

U-4. Yellow square box. The kid should decide which cubes need to take, so that 4 side faces are yellow? Options are blue and red boxes.

U-5. Who will fold the square area of \u200b\u200b9 cubes. it playground for preschoolers. All 4 sidewalls are yellow.

U-6. Blue square platform of 16 cubes. It may be sports board for schoolchildren. All the face except the bottom, blue.

U-7. A red square platform of 25 cubes is scene for the Summer Theater. Here it is already necessary to distinguish which "grade" cubes should be laid around the perimeter and which in the center of the model, otherwise it may not be enough for cubes of the right color.

U-8. Classification in red. Spread cubes on "varieties" or better to make "three trains." In the first train, all wagons with one red roof, in the second - with red roofs and one red wall, in the third - with a red roof and two red walls. There are three "composition" of different lengths and one "diesel locomotive" (a cube without red faces).

From the classification begins a serious mastering "Unicubus", so it can be given much earlier, that is, after performing the first three tasks, especially if the baby already considers to 3 - 5 and may distinguish the "varieties" of cubes. We did not come up with the names to each "variety" of cubes and use the fruits of children's wordness: "Odnushka Red", "Blue Double", "Treshka Yellow" and "Zero". In such a name, it is clearly visible, in what color it was the classification and how many faces of this color are on a cube. Todders such terminology suits, and folding the square scene for the summer theater (U-6), they immediately say: "I will put" red treshi "in the corners, between them" red dvs ", and in the middle you can put" red odnushki "and in the middle What will remain. "
The preliminary classification of cubes in red, blue or yellow color greatly facilitates the execution of any task, so often kids on their own initiative, before proceeding with a new task, make such a classification. At the same time, they already understand what color it is better to choose and whether the classification is fully or selected one "treshki" or "dville".

U-9. Count how many wagons in the train, where the cars only have red roofs (how many in the "unicub" red "odds"). How many wagons in the train with red roofs and one red wall? (How many red "doubles"?) How many wagons in the third train? (How many red "tresk"?) From the cubes of which "variety" can be folded by a small cube (out of 8 cubes) of one color?

U-10. Three treadmills At the stadium of 9 cubes of different colors. Side faces have the color of the adjacent track.

U-11. Who will fold blue letter P.? The kids can only follow the color of the letter, and the elders can be added: there is a wall so that the walls are the same as in Figure U-11.

U-12. Red letter N.. You can also add any letters that are well obtained from cubes (g, e, o, s, t, h, etc.).

U-13. Three-color bench for electric train. Unfortunately, on the invisible side, only the bench seats can be made of the same color as on the visible, and the backs are obtained by the other.

U-14. Knight's castle With 4 turrets in the corners.

U-15. Atomic icebreaker With red deck, blue sides and yellow deck superstructures.

U-16. Multicolored fortress with a boiler.

U-17. Circus Lestenka With blue steps on both sides. How many cubes need for such a ladder?

U-18. Chess board 5x5 With yellow-red cells. Four side faces, too, with chess color. Options are possible: red-blue, yellow-blue.

U-19. Egyptian pyramid. Right and left walls - red, front and rear - yellow, "roofs" of all tiers - blue. For the pyramid, it is not necessary to have 30 cubes, 27 cubes are quite enough. Ask the baby to the task: how to build a solid pyramid if 3 cubes are missing? Where can I save these cubes? (Instead of 4 central cubes in 1 tier, you can put 1 in the center ("Pharaoh's Tomb") and turn it at 45 degrees so that 5 cubes of 11 tiers were resting at once.)

U-20. Yellow Highway 3x9 sizes with one red square in the center. Four side faces are yellow.

U-21. Red five-storey house With windows, with blue roofs on all floors and red floors in all rooms. The back wall of the house and the walls of the rooms can be of any color.

U-22, 23, 24. Three water towers Different height. In addition to compliance with the order of coloring, there is still a "secret" of construction technology. Without the opening of this "Secret" to build 2nd, and especially the 3rd tower is very difficult. Let the kid himself will open this "secret." ("Secret" is in the order of folding: first it is necessary to prepare all the floors, but the folding should be started from the top floor, and not from the bottom, as taken in any construction.)

U-25. Who will quickly fold small red cube? All 6 faces should be red. Options: Yellow and blue Cuba. Unfortunately, they cannot be folded at the same time, but only consistently.

U-26. Small cube of three colors. 2 Neighboring (adjacent) edges of the same color (Vadik Cube Scler, 6 years old).

U-27. Small cube of two colors. Three faces forming one vertex - blue, three others are yellow. Options: yellow red and red-blue.

U-28. Small cube of three colors. The opposite faces of the same color (Vadik Cube Scler, 6 years old).

U-29. Small cube of two colors. Bottom, back and top facelight, and left, front and right - red. Options are different combinations of colors.

U-30. Blue station bench. On all sides, it is painted in blue (except "bottom"). You can add the same bench red or yellow.

U-31. Red well. Outside, it is red from all sides, and inside - blue ("water"). Unfortunately, the inner color lacks one blue face and the "sand" (one yellow face) is visible in the well.

U-32. Armchair with armrests. Covered outside blue, and in front of red velvet. Upholstery color can be changed.

U -3. Antoshina bench.. How many people can sit on the bench at the same time (each cube - seat). The seats and backs on one side are red, on the other - blue, and the top and ends are yellow (Bench Anton Nikitina, 7 years old).

U-34. Score. Why cubes with 1 red face only 6? (According to the number of Cuba's faces.) Why are cubes with 2 red faces - 12? (By the number of edges Cuba). Why cubes with 3 red faces - 8? (According to the number of vertices of Cuba.) Why are the cubes without red faces only 1? How many faces have one cube? Who will count faster, how many red faces on all cubes? How many of all the faces on all cubes? How many faces of 6 cubes, in 8 cubes, in 12 cubes, 27?

U-35. Big cube red. Check out all the 6 faces of red, as often (especially those who fold for the first time) forget that "bottom" should be the same color as the rest of the face. Large blue and large yellow cubes can be folded.

This is one of the most frequently repeated tasks and tasks that make "for a while." For folding at 3 - 4-year-olds takes 10 minutes, 5 - 6-year-olds - up to 2 minutes, and 10 - 12-year-old children can perform this task even in 1 minute. "Recordsmen", working in two hands immediately and on a specific system, can "get out of a minute."

U- 36. Large cube of three colors. Two adjacent edges of the same color.

U-37. Large tricolor cubic With opposite faces of the same color.

U-38. Large tricolor cubic With horizontal layers of the same color.

U-39. Two-color cubic, 3 faces that form the top - yellow, 3 others - blue. Other color combinations are possible: yellow with red, red with blue.

U-40. Large two-color cube. The bottom, rear and upper facet of blue, and the left front and right - red (Cube of Sasha Dunaev, 6 years old). You can use other combinations of colors.

U-41. High-rise yellow house for 20 apartments. Based on - 4 cubes, and height - 5 floors. Walls, roof and floor on the 1st floor of yellow. Coloring at home can be done red, and blue.

U-42. Big cube with chess color All 6 faces. The combination of colors can be the others: blue-red, yellow-red.

U-43. Who will quickly fold red Cross On all 6 faces? The peaks of the cube can be yellow and blue.

U-44. Who will quickly fold letter P. On all 6 faces? The color of the letters on opposite faces is the same. There may be options: all the letters of one color (red, yellow, blue).

U-45. Who will quickly fold Letter N. On all 6 faces? The color of the letters on opposite faces is the same. Come up with other options.

U-46. Layer three-storey red house For 9 apartments, but so that the rear wall is blue. It can be preparation for detachable tasks where "internal order" works.

U-47. Large detachable red cube. All 6 outer faces are red, any contact with the connectors are monochrome (yellow or blue). Options for another color are possible.

This task is decisive in many ways. First, after completing it, you can make sure that the color of "unicub" in the manufacture was unmistakable. Secondly, the child who coped with the task of U-47 will be able to cope with any other.
Interestingly, the training in solving the task U-47 only in the very initial stage significantly improves the results of adults, and then they change little, and adults in general, as a rule, cannot reach the results shown by children for 10-12 years (lags behind time of 2 - 3 times). Exceptions are extremely rare.

U-48. Double classification. Cubes first need to decompose on "varieties", as in the task U-8, in red. A row with one red face (K-1), a row with two red faces (K-2) and a row with three red faces (K-3).

Then inside each row decompose them in varieties, but already blue (or if necessary - yellow) color. Closer to themselves putting cubes with three blue faces, hereinafter - with two and even further - with one. The triads are obtained as on the U-43. Double classification markedly facilitates the fulfillment of the most complex tasks N 44 - 50, since you can immediately find a cube with a predetermined number and color of the faces. For example, all the "red trees" lie in the row of K-3, "Treshi blue" is the closest to the child cubes (they are simply visible), and the "trees are yellow" - the most distant in each row.

U-49. Small detachable red cube. Any verge of connector of one color (Anton Nikitin cube, 8 years old). Options: Yellow Cube, Blue Cube.

U-50. Two-sided chessboard, 5x5 (y-46). All 6 faces have a chess color. Large, invisible in the figure the face should be red-yellow or yellow-blue, and narrow face - the same coloring as one of the wide. In fig. 46 All of them are red-blue. This is one of the most complex tasks. When it is fulfilled, almost everything allows mistakes and lose weight of time on their correction, the permutation of cubes (Segeieev board, 14 years old).

U-51. Big red cubic. Any contact with different color connector. Externally, this cube is the same as the U-47, but the "interior device" is different - the contacting edges of the connector - different colors. The outer color can be set and other colors (yellow or blue), but then the internal color (Cube Anton Nikitina, 10 years) changes accordingly.

U-52. Big red cubic. Any contacts of the connector are striped. 6 options are possible: three options are determined by the color of the outer color (red, yellow, blue), and within each of them there are two options for internal coloring on the connectors. One shown in the design figure, in which multi-colored stripes (blue with yellow) are in each connector, and the second one - when the bands are inhibited monochrome (Anton Nikitin cube, 10 years old).

U-53. Who will fold a big cube so that:

In the frontal planes, all external and interior faces were monochrome (2 yellow, 2 red, 2 blue);
- in lateral planes (right, left and in parallel sections between them) striped, tricolor (6 faces);
- In horizontal planes (from above, from below and in sections between them, a chess color, two-color (6 faces)? (Cube Volodya and Natasha Lisun from Kiev).

U-54. Big red cubic. All 12 contacting faces of the connector have chess color. Here you can also change the color of the outer faces, and the contacting the verge of the connector or may be a mirror reflection of each other, or in contact with multi-colored squares, like the U-50 (Cube Anton Nikitina, 10 years old).

U-55. Who will fold a big cube so that all the external faces in pairs of opposite were monochrome; - all the interior of the connector connector, in contact, pairwise monochrome? (Cubol Toli Reinstalled, 19 years old).

U-56. Who will fold a large cube so that all the external and all verge of connectors (12) formed the letter O. ie 6 Red, 6 yellow and 6 blue letters? (Cube Oli Nikitina, 17 years old).

U-57. Who will fold a big cube so that all 18 external and internal faces were the letters H (6 blue, 6 red, 6 yellow)?

U-58. Who will fold a big cube so that the red crosses are on its outer edges, and on the internal edges of the connector 6 blue and 6 yellow? (Cube Vanya Nikitina, 10 years old)

U-59. Who will put down a big cube so that all the external and all the inner verge of the connector (18 faces) were striped tricolor? (Cubol Toli Reinstalled, 19 years old).

U-60. Who will fold the big cube of the highest difficulty? All 6 outdoor faces and 12 internal have chess color. If there are 6 red-blue outside, then 6 internal red-yellow and 6 more blue-yellow (Anton Nikitina cube, 19 years old).

From the book Nikitina "Educational Games"

Unicubus is another game for children with cubes. Cubes from this game are designed to create an idea of \u200b\u200ba three-dimensional space. The development of spatial thinking will allow the child to master the child in the future, stereometry, descriptive geometry.

A wide range of "Unicubes" tasks can be used as a game for children from 2 to 15 years. The game gives huge opportunities for the development of children. The child can analyze the patterns of painting cubes. The first impression is that there are no equally painted cubes, all twenty-seven cubes are different, although only three colors are used, and the edges of the cube are six. Then it turns out that in addition to the only one there are eight triads, according to the number of the edges of each color, but are they and by relative position?

The game teaches clarity, care, accuracy, accuracy.

How to make unicubes

In order to make the game Unicub, take twenty-seven wooden cubes with an edge of thirty millimeters (you can and more), if they are saved with paper, then soak it, remove and dry. After stipbing all the edges of the shallow emery paper and put into the cube three cubes in each face, as shown in the figure below.

Red pencil mark all six sides of this cube, i.e. Make a dash on each of the 54 faces converted outward, as can be seen in the figure above on the left. Do not scatter a cube when you will marry "bottom". After that, the cube cannot be turned on the side until you finish the markup.

Raise the entire top layer of 9 cubes at once, squeezing them in your hand, and mark both the horizontal faces of the connector with a yellow pencil. Then lift the second layer of nine cubes and mark both edges with a blue pencil.

Returning both layers to the place without displacement and turns, proceed to the markup in the vertical (frontal) plane and, finally, in the third plane. Thus, each of the twenty seven cubes will be labeled all six faces. All three colors with such a color are equal.

Only after marking can be proceeding with colored paper cubes or painting. The markings made on cubes with colored pencils are indicated which color should have a face. When painting, pick up the tones close to the tones in the drawings of the tasks.

For "unicub", a box with an internal size of 95x95x90 mm is needed, with a lid. This allows without recalculation to immediately see whether all the cubes are on the spot, and cover the "unicub" assembled in a certain way "instead of slow laying of all twenty-seven cubes one per box.

To make sure that the "Unikuba" color is made without errors, fold the cubes, as in the U-47 task (shown in the figure above), and, if there is an error, you will immediately find it.

Drawings-tasks to the "Unicuba" for kids can be increased and divided into two parts - from 1 to 22 and from 23 to the 50th job (tasks are shown in the figures below).

50 tasks for "unicuba"

1. Red train (U-1). You need to fold the train from the cubes, as shown in the picture with the task. Roofs, walls of wagons and electric locomotives - red (from those sides that are visible in the picture). Put, and better place or hang vertically in front of the baby Figure y-1. The length of the train can be exactly the same as in the picture, and more. It depends on the mood of the "Machine". In the first three tasks, accuracy in the number of cubes can not be observed. The main difficulty of tasks for a three-year-old baby is to simultaneously monitor two planes and besides the appropriate cubes (with two and three red faces). If he previously performed the task of "lay pattern", the task for it will be relatively easy. But if he makes red only the roofs of the wagons, and the walls will not turn out of all the wagons - praise it. "Good painters painted the roofs - all red. And now let's see how the malariers painted the walls." And lead the index and middle fingers along the train. Stop near the car with a wall of another color and think: "Can the wagon in the repaint or not?" The decision must take the "machinist" itself.

2. Blue trumpet (U-2). Cubes must be folded into the column, 2 visible faces and top of the pipe - blue. The height can be set in six to eight cubes and even: "Who will be above all?" Then the child will improve the method of installing cubes on each other. The higher the pipe, the more accurately it is required to install cubes, and the record records for kids are interesting.

3. Yellow square box (U-3). The baby must decide which cubes need to take, so that the four side faces are yellow? Options are blue and red boxes.

4. Blue square Of the nine cubes (U-4). This is a playground for preschoolers. All four side her face blue.

5. Yellow square spot From sixteen cubes (U-5). It may be a sports ground for schoolchildren. All the face of which, except the bottom, are yellow.

6. Red square spot Of the twenty-five cubes (U-6). Here it is already necessary to distinguish which "grade" cubes should be laid around the perimeter and which in the center of the model, otherwise it may not be enough for cubes of the right color.

7. Two-color tower (U-7). One visible edge - red, the second is yellow and top - blue. A more complex variant of the tower is two walls, adjacent, red and two yellow, i.e. It is necessary to "paint" all four walls: and those that are visible in the figure, and those that are not visible.

If both options are not amenable to the baby, you can go to the classification (U-23), after which the cubes acquire "names" and the child receives an idea, which "building material" he has and what is required in the drawing.

8. Three running tracks at the stadium Of the nine cubes of different colors (U-8). Side faces have the color of the adjacent track.

9. Blue letter P (U-9).

10. Red letter N. (U-10). You can also add any letters that are well obtained from cubes (g, e, o, s, t, h, etc.).

11. Tricolor bench for electric train (U-11). Unfortunately, on the invisible side, only the bench seats can be made of the same color as on the visible, and the backs are obtained by the other.

12. Knight's castle with four turrets in the corners (U-12).

13. Atomic icebreaker with red deck, blue sides and yellow deck superstructures (U-13).

14. Multicolored Fortress with Loafers (U-14).

15. Circus Lestenka With blue steps on both sides (U-15). How many cubes need for such a ladder?

16. Chessboard of five cells With yellow-red cells (U-16). Four side faces, too, with chess color. Options are possible: red-blue, yellow-blue.

17. Egyptian pyramid (U-17). Right and left walls - red, front and rear - yellow, "roofs" of all tiers - blue. For the pyramid, it is not necessary to have thirty cubes, quite the available twenty seven cubes. Set the baby to the task: how to build a solid pyramid if the three cubes are missing? Where can I save these cubes? (Instead of four central cubes in the first tier, you can put one in the center ("Pharaoh's Tomb") and turn it at 45 degrees so that five cubes of the second tier will be restored.)

18. Yellow highway size 3x9 with one red square in the center (U-18). Four side faces are yellow.

19. Red five-storey house with windows, with blue roofs on all floors and red floors in all rooms. The rear wall of the house and the walls of the rooms can be of any color (U-19).

20. 21. 22. Three Water Towers of different heights (U-20, U-21, U-22). In addition to compliance with the order of coloring, there is still a "secret" of construction technology. Without the opening of this "Secret" to build a second, and especially the third tower is very difficult. Let the kid himself will open this "secret." ("Secret" is in the order of folding: first it is necessary to prepare all the floors, but the folding should be started from the top floor, and not from the bottom, as taken in any construction.)

23. Classification (U-23). Spread cubes on "varieties". In the first row, put all the cubes with one red face (K-1), in the second - with two red faces (K-2), in the third row - with three red faces (K-3) and in the fourth row - without red faces (K-0). Three "composition" of different lengths and one "dielozow" are obtained.

From the classification, a serious mastering "Unicubus" begins, so it can be given much earlier, i.e. After performing the first three tasks, especially if the baby already considers up to three or up to five and can distinguish the "varieties" of cubes. The authors did not come up with the names to each "variety" of cubes, so you can use the fruits of children's wordness: "Odnushka Red", "Blue Twin", "Tryshka Yellow" and "Zero". In such a name, it is clearly visible, in what color it was the classification and how many faces of this color are on a cube. Todders such terminology suits, and folding the square scene for the summer theater (U-6), they immediately say: "I will put" red treshi "in the corners, between them" red dvs ", and in the middle you can put" red odnushki "and in the middle What will remain. "

The preliminary classification of cubes in red, blue or yellow color greatly facilitates the execution of any task, so often kids on their own initiative, before proceeding with a new task, make such a classification. At the same time, they already understand what color it is better to choose and whether the classification is completely or selecting one "treshki" or dvs. "

24. Count how many cubes Each variety in the game (6, 8, 12). From the cubes of which "variety" can be folded by a small cube of one color?

25. Small red cube (U-25). All six faces should be red. Options: Yellow and blue cubes. Unfortunately, they cannot be folded at the same time, but only consistently.

26. Small cube of three colors (U-26). Two neighboring (adjacent) edges of the same color (Vadik Cube Scler, 6 years old).

27. Small cube of two colors (U-27). Three faces forming one vertex - blue, three others are yellow. Options: yellow red and red-blue.

28. Small cube of three colors (U-28), the opposite faces of the same color (Vadik Cube Scler, 6 years old).

29. Small cube of two colors (U-29). Bottom, back and top facelight, and left, front and right - red. Options are different combinations of colors.

30. Blue station bench (U-30). On all sides, it is painted in blue (except "bottom"). You can add the same bench red or yellow.

31. Red well (U-31). Outside, it is red from all sides, and inside - blue ("water"). Unfortunately, the inner color lacks one blue face and the "sand" (one yellow face) is visible in the well.

32. Armchair with armrests (U-32). Covered outside blue, and in front of red velvet. Upholstery color can be changed.

33. Antoshina bench. (U-33). How many people can sit on the bench at the same time (each cube - seat). The seats and backs on one side are red, on the other - blue, and the top and ends are yellow (Bench Anton Nikitina, 7 years old).

34. Questions. Why is the cubes with one red face only six? (According to the number of Cuba faces.) Why are the cubes with two red faces - twelve? (By the number of edges Cuba). Why cubes with three red faces - eight? (By the number of vertices of Cuba.) Why is a cube without red faces only one? How many faces have one cube? Who will count faster, how many red faces on all cubes? How many of all the faces on all cubes? How many faces have six cubes, in eight cubes, have twelve cubes, have twenty-seven?

35. Big red cube (U-35). Check if there are six faces of red, as often (especially those who fold for the first time) forget that "bottom" should be the same color as the other faces. Large blue and large yellow cubes can be folded.

This is one of the most frequently repeated tasks and tasks that make "for a while." Three-four-year folding takes ten minutes, five-six-year-olds are up to two minutes, and ten-twelve children can fulfill this task even in a minute. "Recordsmen", working in two hands immediately and on a specific system, can "get out of a minute."

36. Large cube (U-36). Two adjacent edges of the same color.

37. Large tricolor cubic With opposite glands of the same color (U-37).

38. Large tricolor cubic With horizontal layers of the same color (U-38).

39. Two-color cubicThree faces forming the top, yellow, three other faces - blue (U-39). Other color combinations are possible: yellow with red, red with blue.

40. Large two-color cube (U-40). The bottom, rear and upper facet of blue, and the left front and right - red (Cube of Sasha Dunaev, 6 years old). You can use other combinations of colors.

41. High-rise yellow house For twenty apartments (U-41). Based on four cubes, and the house height is five floors. Walls, roof and floor on the first floor of yellow. Coloring at home can be done red, and blue.

42. Big cube with chess color All six faces (U-42). The combination of colors can be the others: blue-red, yellow-red.

43. Double classification (U-43). Cubes first need to decompose on "varieties", as in the task of U-23, in red. A row with one red face (K-1), a row with two red faces (K-2) and a row with three red faces (K-3).

Then inside each row decompose them in varieties, but already blue (or if necessary - yellow) color. Closer to themselves putting cubes with three blue faces, hereinafter - with two and even further - with one. The triads are obtained, as on the task U-43. Double classification markedly facilitates the fulfillment of the most complex tasks No. 44 - 50, as you can immediately find a cube with a predetermined number and color of the faces. For example, all the "red trees" lie in the row of K-3, "Treshi blue" is the closest to the child cubes (they are simply visible), and the "trees are yellow" - the most distant in each row.

44. Small red cube (U-44). Any verge of connector of one color (Anton Nikitin cube, 8 years old). Options: Yellow Cube, Blue Cube.

45. Two-sided chessboard, Five cells size (U-45). All six faces have chess color. Large, invisible in the figure the face should be red-yellow or yellow-blue, and narrow face - the same coloring as one of the wide. In the picture, they are all red-blue. This is one of the most complex tasks. When it is fulfilled, almost everything allows mistakes and lose weight of time on their correction, the permutation of cubes (Segeieev board, 14 years old).

46. Three-storey red house (U -6) on nine apartments, but so that the rear wall is blue. It may be preparation for detachable tasks where "internal order" works.

47. Big red cubic (U-47). All incisive outdoor faces - red, any contact with the verge of connector are single-color (yellow or blue). Options for another color are possible.

Interestingly, training in solving the task U-47 only in the start of the initial stage significantly improves the results of adults, and then they change little, and adults in general, as a rule, can not reach the results shown by children in ten or twelve years (behind time is two or three times). Exceptions are extremely rare.

48. Big red cubic (U-48). Any contact with different color connector. Externally, this cube is the same as the U-47, but the "interior device" is different - the contacting edges of the connector - different colors. The outer color can be set and other colors (yellow or blue), but then the internal color (Cube Anton Nikitina, 10 years) changes accordingly.

49. Big red cubic (U-49). Any contacts of the connector are striped. Six options for performing this task are possible: three options are determined by the color of the outer color (red, yellow, blue), and there are two options for internal colors within each of them. One shown in the figure to task U-49, in which the multi-colored stripes (blue with yellow) are in each connector, and the second one - when the bands are monochrome (Anton Nikitina, 10 years old).

50. Big red cubic (U-50). Contacting the verge of the connector have chess color. Here you can also change the color of the outer faces, and the contacting the verge of the connector or may be a mirror reflection of each other, or in contact with multi-colored squares, like the U-50 (Cube Anton Nikitina, 10 years old).

How to play unicub

Before offering the game "Unicub" baby, try to play yourself. Carefully pour cubes on the table, put a clock with a second arrow or stopwatch and, noticing time, fold from all twenty seven cubes cube of one color (U-35). If you manage to do this in two minutes from the first attempt - you have brilliantly developed spatial thinking, but first cover the cube with two hands and carefully turn it on the side so that the cubes do not crumble. See how painted "bottom". Is there any other color squares in it other than your favorites? If there is, then you will be proud of, but first work out. You will feel like a strict "unicub" in relation to errors: does not allow any! Yes, and "says" he is deliberately: "You have made a mistake somewhere, so it does not work the cube of one color." And it's not so easy to find a mistake - you need a good "control system" immediately, one day is unlikely you will be able to work out it.

To offer the child this game, parents need to imagine whether he distinguishes the colors whether they can find a cube with two faces of the same color or not, whether the "train" and "tower" is folded, can lay the "platform", build " "Or" Lanenka ".

Carefully review the texts and drawings of several tasks and try to execute them. Then you will have the opportunity to start with the settlers for the baby tasks, so that in two or three games close to the challenges difficult for the kid. The "icebreaker" method should be used in a complete measure.

Tasks in the "Unicuba" difficult and require therefore a lot of time and strength of the child, and they cannot be given a lot. Sometimes one task and less often two or three tasks, depending on the kid's capabilities.

Children often give the tasks of "names", try to do it and you along with the child and use how much you can, inventions, comparisons, figurative pictures - to all that makes the game more and more interesting. Very good, if the child begins to pick up the analogies, fantasize, compose himself.

Tasks Children can be given both using the drawing and orally. Figure Children understand first better than a verbal explanation, but this does not mean that we must agree with such one-sidedness. Where the task can be given verbally, it must be used. Only when you make sure that the baby can be folded and the "small cube of blue" (of eight "blue three") and "big red cube" (from twenty seven cubes) on one verbal task, you can weaken attention to the problem - How to specify a task: orally or graphically. In other words, it is necessary to bring the child to such a position when it equally well perceives the tasks, both orally and in the form of a picture.

The tasks are located approximately in order of increasing complexity, but there is no strict sequence, and there is still no, and where the "failures" will come across and there will be "impregnable rocks", dad and mom should choose the tasks of intermediate complexity or to invent new ones. The authors of the game sometimes tried after U-3 go to U-23, and it turned out well. Baby, learning to classify cubes in "varieties" in three or four years, easily and confidently went both forward and back to U-4, U-8 and other tasks.

And as always in educational games, you mainly observe how the kid builds a model from cubes, as it compares the drawing and its construction, as it believes how many cubes need to take for the model, and how decides whether this cube is suitable for it or not. All his work is on his own, without explaining from the senior. But the eldest person is also interested in success, like the kid himself. You enjoy him to successes with him or even a little earlier, as it does not always understand where and what is the success. You are upset by his failures, but do not despair as he, and confident that if today and failure, then tomorrow or a week will be a success and victory, "inaccessible ice" will be broken. True, it is difficult to wait for the kid himself will find a solution, but take patience and be sure to praise the child for success. Sometimes an adult tip is equivalent to insult.

You can play "Unicub" only while the entire set is retained - twenty-seven cubes, so you need to take care of, and even better - make a separate kit for each child, and if one kid is in the family, then two sets. In the manufacture of a second set of the game, you can slightly change the tone of one of the colors (for example, yellow), which will easily allow to distinguish the sets. If you have several sets of games in the family, it will greatly facilitate its organization. Dad or mom will be able to sit next to the baby and also to build different models, but at the same time go is not ahead of the baby, but behind him, a little lagging behind him, copying his action. Then the discovery, opening, good luck of the child are better visible and are better visible, and they must be emphasized that the baby felt, where he especially successfully worked.

It is advisable to record the achievements of the child: which tasks performed and how much time spent on them, what tasks caused his difficulty.

Do you want your child to be attentive, intelligent, capable?

I bring to your attention the game "Unicub". The purpose of this game is the development of logical, analytical thinking, the ability to solve the search tasks, the development of memory and attention, the mental potential of the child increases.

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"The educational game" Unicub "(B. P. Nikitina)

Do you want your child to be attentive, intelligent, capable?

I bring to your attention the game "Unicub". In the book B. P. Nikitin "Steps of creativity or educational games", became interested in this game and decided to apply it to work (a description of the preparation of the game completely took from this book).

The purpose of this game is the development of logical, analytical thinking, the ability to solve the search tasks, the development of memory and attention, the mental potential of the child increases.

A wide range of "Unicubes" tasks may pass children from 2 to 15 years. The game gives huge opportunities for the development of children. The child can analyze the patterns of painting cubes. The first impression is that there are no equally painted cubes, all 27 are different, although only three colors are used, and the edges of the cube 6 are used. Then it turns out that, except for the only one, there are 8 triads, by the number of edges of each color, but are they Mutual location?

Before offering the child "Unicub", parents need to imagine whether he distinguishes the colors whether they can find a cube with two faces of the same color or not, whether it makes the "train" and "tower" cubes, can lay the "platform" Build "House" or "Lestenka".

Tasks in the "unicub" difficult and require therefore a lot of time and strength of the child, and they cannot be given a lot. Sometimes one task and less often 2-3, depending on the kid's capabilities.

Tasks for the assembly of "Unicub" children can be given both using the drawing and orally. Figure Children understand first better than a verbal explanation, but this does not mean that we must agree with such one-sidedness. Where the task can be given verbally, it must be used. Only when you make sure that the baby can fold and "small blue cube" (out of 8 "blue swear") and "big red cube" (out of 27 cubes) on one verbal task, you can weaken attention to the problem as Set the task: orally or graphically.

In other words, it is necessary to bring the child to such a position when it equally well perceives the tasks for the "Unicub" assembly as orally and in the form of a picture.

And as always in educational games, you mainly observe how the kid builds a model from the cubes of "Unikuba", as it compares the drawing and its construction, according to how many cubes should be taken for the model, and how decides whether this cube is suitable for it or not. All his work goes on his own, without explaining from the elders. But the eldest person is also interested in success, like the kid himself. You enjoy him to successes with him or even a little earlier, as he does not always understand where success. You are upset by his failures, but do not despair as he, and confident that if there is a failure today, then tomorrow or a week later, the success and victory will be, the "impregnable" task will be solved. True, it is difficult to wait for the kid himself will find a solution, but bring patience ... and be sure to praise the child for success. And remember - sometimes adult tip is equivalent to insult.