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I bought my husband one of these gadgets but in a different color several years ago. Unfortunately I had placed it on a window sill and knocked it off into the floor. He was REALLY annoyed that I had broken it and bought a cheap-o imitation. SO this Christmas I anticipate that he will be delighted with this almost identical one.

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This teaches cause and effect as well as working on fine motor skills that every baby needs. It is also very cute. The pictures change color as they pop up when baby does the different things which include a slider with bell sound, squeaker button, twisting knob, and flipping switch.

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From seeing this car on tv, I thought it had the pull back and let go feature. It's just a hotwheels car with a robot on the under side. My 3 yr old likes it anyways. I just thought it was a expensive for what it is.

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I went to a music class with my little guy and later that day saw these at the state fair. The moment I gave it to my little guy, he was shaking away. It's his new favorite toy, and you can't beat the price! I'm going to buy a bunch more and give them as baby gifts whenever a friend has a baby from now on!

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These letters are a great match for the capital magnetic letters that you find just about any where. I wanted my kids to practice letter recognition and spelling with the lower case letters, and these have been perfect for that purpose. The only down side is that they aren't part of Amazon Prime, but maybe they will fix that soon.

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My grandson has learning disabilities plus he is very tactile so teaching him at school and home was very difficult. The Polyhedra Dice Set became an invaluable teaching tool.

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If you're looking for the standard layout of D&D dice, this is not the product for you. These are great for educational purposes basic colors, easy to read numbers, good price.

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I'd recommend this to anyone with an aspiring engineer. I purchased this for my 8th grader and he started working on it at 6am and finished around 4 or 5.

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Reviews of Workbooks-Math Readiness Grades K-1

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I've found School Zone workbooks to be useful in introducing various subjects, and to review what my child already knows.

After completing Transition Math K-1, my son breezed through this workbook. Most of the pages contain counting exercises for numbers 0-12 (they had a great way of explaining zero to little kids!), and shape/pattern recognition. The intro to addition and subtraction used pictures to describe the concept.

There was one page about clocks, and a few pages about sequencing and greater/less. At the end of the workbook is a review section of everything that was taught, along with an answer key, and a cute certificate.

The School Zone workbook we are currently using is Time, Money and Fractions.

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I'm a mother, trainer, and in-home childcare provider, so I am careful about the educational books I buy for kids because I want to challenge and prepare them for school and life success. I bought this simply because the price was so low and I thought it would be fun for our kids to have another "homework" book to do. I was impressed by the coverage of important math concepts and the way with which they're presented; the price is great, too. For $2, it's worth it.

For all of my kids, I purchase the Comprehensive Curriculum for Preschool (or Kindergarten, 1st grade, etc., depending on their age). It's only $13 and is almost 600 pages of awesome activities that really prepare your child for the next level. I recommend that for the main curriculum and this as a fun activity for your own kids or your childcare's Writing Center.

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My 4 yr old son absolutely loves this book and finds it like an enjoyable game doing the assignments on each page. The instructions are simple and easy for my son to understand and read. I am really impressed with this book and I'm confident this book and others will get him obviously ahead in school.

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I ordered a ton of these little books for my now-first grader to have summer practice before school started. Very nicely done, lots of engaging activities and pictures that make the review fun (and kind of sneaks it in there!). Great value! :D

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My kids love activity books and start going through them at a very young age. Now my 4.5 years old does this one and it is a bit on the easy side

Buy 3B Scientific Glossy Paper Diseases of The Eye Anatomical Chart

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The poster is bright, glossy, and came packaged well. It is a great, high quality poster. The colors are very accurately portrayed. I looked everywhere for a frame to fit it though and couldn't find this size. I think one store had a cheap, plastic black frame, but we were looking for something nicer. Finally, I broke down and purchased some frames I found here on amazon and am SO glad I did! We purchased two other eye posters (Disorders of the Eye and The Eye) to go in different rooms at an eye dr.'s office and they all fit these frames perfectly. They are: Craig Frames 76658953 20x26-Inch Picture Frame, Wood Composite, 2-Inch Wide, Textured Brown $30.99. They look SO good...very professional and will last a lifetime, I'm sure. Well worth the money for the frames. I will review the frames separately, but the one we chose is a dark, espresso brown.

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Review of K'NEX Education - Forces, Energy & Motion

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program This K'Nex kit is great for the classroom or homeschool unit. This is an excellent resource for kids. We had great fun putting together the cars in this kit. My 8th grade daughter had a great eye for the instructions and together we've had a lot of fun with this kit. The kids in Tech class enjoy these types of activities as well.

This is an inclusive teaching aide. The K'Nex Education Forces, Energy & Motion comes with all the parts needed to make several different types of car: motor driven, spring driven, air driven and rubber band driven all super engaging. The directions are such that kids have to focus and use logic to put together the units. They are not so detailed that a zombie could put them together so they do require brain power.

Also included in the kids are the detailed instruction books that included instructions for each type of K'Nex car, and a CD for teacher information to help teach kids the different aspects of force, motion and energy.

This kid provides hours of brain fueled fun great for groups and teams. The parts are sturdy, though some take a little muscle to click together. The building instructions are first rate and the projects are very clever. This also comes in a solid, sturdy case for safe keeping with plenty of room to gather the pieces for a project and do the work inside the case so no pieces get lost. This is for ages 10 plus, little kids would probably get frustrated unless an adult does the work from the instruction booklet and has the child gather the parts and participates in simple ways in the construction. This is a great kit for 6th grade through 9th grade aged kids.

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program I have used both Lego educational products and K'nex in my science and math classrooms. My general preference is for K'nex for middle school and up and Lego for elementary school (with the exception of the MindStorms Lego sets which are excellent for computer programing at the high school level). This is actually based on the physical difficulty of assembling K'nex vs Lego, which is probably why K'nex is marketed as age 10 and up. K'nex takes more physical force and dexterity to assemble, but the type, size and physical integrity of the of structures are much better with K'nex. One can build very large structures with K'nex (such as meter long bridges, meter high roller coasters and so on) that are precluded by the weight of the bricks for Lego.

K'nex lends itself far better to engineering and physics problems as it is much sturdier (although not a sturdy as Erector sets!) and one can build cars and structures that will hold together throughout testing. For physics and engineering projects (motion, machines, conservation of energy, structure building) K'nex is clearly better than Lego.

I also use K'nex in my math classes when I need to show 3D structure.

As a teacher you can register on the K'nex education site and receive access to lesson plans which are linked to the Common Core Standards. This is quite useful.

For this specific set I was pleasantly surprised by the included teacher's manual (on CD as a pdf). The writer clearly understands that students should not simply be given a set of instructions to follow but instead the students are led through the steps of the scientific method and not ordered to collect data in a certain manner. This is actually inquiry based learning. A word of warning, these sort of labs take a long time, but the time is not wasted. Students are engaged in actually DOING science, rather than following some recipe. For higher level thinkers who stay on task I actually completely abandon the worksheets and tell them to design a lab to test, say, how weight and number of windings of the rubber band motor impact distance traveled. However, if time is very tight in your class, using the provided lab outlines would provide enough structure to make certain that the students are progressing and will ensure that there are enough K'nex parts for each group. In the past I have simply bought the K'nex parts via retail (they are fully compatible with the educational versions). You can order replacement parts but I have actually found that I can often get the pieces I need more cheaply by scrounging from other sets. What I do really like about these educational sets is that there are enough parts to build multiple of the same model (say rubber band powered car) at a time for direct comparison. K'nex parts are pretty sturdy, and I rarely have students break them.

I would not suggest this specific set for an individual child. Since many of the parts are identical, for your money you could get a larger selection of different parts by buying less specific sets.

The set specifies that you can organize the parts, but the case itself does not actually have any dividers, which is strange as the bottom was clearly designed to accept movable dividers.

There are two battery powered motors (batteries not included), two flywheel powered motors and 4 rubber band powered motors included. These are usually the limiting factors when building (along with the wheels).

Four books of building instructions are supplied. I would suggest groups of 2-3 ideally, but 4 at the maximum, otherwise some students simply stand around and watch. So for a large class you will need more than one kit.

(Hint: many of these labs require a stopwatch, if your students have smart phones they can download stopwatch apps (they may have them already) which actually work better than cheap stopwatches)

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program I find this K'Nex set to be a wonderful teaching tool. Something that the kids don't mind learning about. It's quite enjoyable for them to build the variety of vehicles that can be made with this set and make predictions before they test their creations.

The directions are very easy to follow. There is a bit of difficulty at times snapping the pieces together. This may make it a bit more challenging for the younger age level that is recommended but the older kids should enjoy the challenge.

This set comes with a wonderful Teacher's Guide on disc that is very beneficial and it comes in a very durable storage tub.

The variety of vehicles that can be made with this set is very nice. They're all lots of fun and the kids seem to enjoy making all of them and racing each other.

I find this to be a very nice teaching set that would be great for classroom, daycare, home school or even a great summer activity to keep kids learning. I would highly recommend it.

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I purchased this kit as part of University class requirement but can't wait to incorporate the kit into my regular classroom. The building instructions and teacher information is easy to read and very helpful.

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I bought this for my boy and they loved this toy, especially the motors and springs. Though they played with this toy at home, I think it would be great in a classroom. I think their teachers would like the concept too.

Review of Fisher-Price Apptivity Gym for iPhone & iPod Touch Devices

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1) Works only with iPhone 4 and 4S. Not iPhone 5... then again, if you're sticking an iPhone 5 in here, I'll volunteer to be your beneficiary. Highly recommend using a "spare" iPhone/iPod. My God, did I just write that? Seriously. I just recommended that you have access to a two-year-old $300 phone that you don't use anymore. You probably have it though, we did.

2) QR Code on back doesn't work. Deadlinks to something on the Fisher-Price mobile site. Maybe it will get fixed. Too easy to just go to the App Store/iTunes and search for "apptivity." There are two apps for the gym. One is titled "Peek 'n Play" the other is "Black & White."

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3) Touchscreen works while locked in place. Good to switch between apps, maybe even put on a movie or something else? Can turn sound on or off while in cradle, but cannot simply turn down. The phone isn't too hard to get in there, but definitely takes surgical precision.

4) The toy works as a stand-alone (mirror on back-side of iPhone cradle), but significantly increases in value with the addition of the apps. They were designed for this thing, no doubt about it. The two apps were not an afterthought.

5) For fun, place your kid in it and sit facing them. Who is the creepy-creepster staring at you?! (See pic)

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The best word I have for this is simple. It's simple to fold, simple to carry, simple to put together, and simple to operate. You don't have to use your iPod/iPhone in it but if you do, just search for the Fisher Price apps in the App Store, pop it in it's secure spot and voila! You can also situate your Apple device so that the baby can't or can press the home button. If you don't want to use that function, just switch it around and use the mirror it comes with. I have twins and I found this is also a good tool for tummy time exercises as they can stretch their necks to look up into the mirror and reach up to get the toys. Good buy! Especially if it's on sale!

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Grandson enjoys it and I love I can put my phone on it to play music with my Pandora app.

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My 2 month old loves to lay under the gym and listen to the apps. It keeps her quiet which is great for her mommy!!

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Customer review from the Amazon Vine Program This is a great baby present. The Apptivity Gym works with many iPhones and iTouches but not with the new iPhone 5 because it does not have the new electricity adaptor in it. This means that if mom or dad didn't have an iPhone or didn't have an iPhone prior to the iPhone 5, then the "app" part of the gym would not work.

That being said, the gym does not require apps to be used with it, as there is a mirror inserted in the place where an iPhone/iTouch is meant to be inserted. I actually prefer the gym without the iPhone/iTouch and appreciate that without these mobile objects, the gym is quiet. Kids still seem to enjoy the gym and it doesn't make any noise, unlike all the other battery-powered kids' toys that seem to continuously make noise.

This gym is best for kids that are still laying on their backs. It is also fun for kids that can sit up but not very useful for walking children, so it has a limited, but important, lifespan. I highly recommend this toy.

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Bought this for my 6 year old son who adores Nemo. He LOVES IT and its simple enough that he doesn't get super frustrated with it either. All in all a very good learning game. :)

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I am very disappointed in the condition of this product and the fact that amazon would send it out this way. The table itself is a great idea and a wonderful gift. However Amazon shipped it out to me with a good number of the pieces having paint chips and scratching on the metal wires. This is unfortunate because the table is over a hundred dollars and is in poor condition and my son was there when I opened the box. A side note for the table itself is that the beads are made larger than the ends of thee wire so they don't fit properly all the way down. they need to lower the price on this product!!!

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The photo for this product shows what looks to be a 2-3 year old boy and the table coming up to his hip-level; my son is 14 months old and it hits at the same level on him! He is tall for his age but still, I think the picture is misleading. It is otherwise a very cute and well-made play table. It doesn't slide and scoot around on our wood floors, the legs are heavy and sturdy and there are rubber bottoms on the legs. I think the weight is just right. It stays put for play but isn't difficult for mom to lift and move out of the way. I like the vehicles on the toy, they're utility vans and trucks of different kinds not just cars so kids will like that as they get older and understand what kind of truck is what. And in that regard I think my son will enjoy it better when he's older. I got it for him as he's learning to cruise and walk, to help him, but it doesn't hold his interest all that long yet.

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It is an excellent product in entertainment and education. My son is 2 and a half years old and love it, through the colors and shapes learn and develop their psychomotor skills, and when friends come play together.

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This was bought for my grandson as a Christmas present. He is only two, but he has a very bright and inquiring mind. He loves cars, too, so this was the perfect activity table for him. The beads on the wires are different types of traffic signs, a train with several cars, and cars. He and his siblings play together on it at times, having races across the beads. There are also cars permanently attached to the table part with nuts and bolts, and these have their own tracks to run in. It has been a great toy, one that even the 8-year-old plays with.

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We received this item as a gift for our daughter and she enjoys it. However, one of the problems I have with this toy is that it's not the best for 6 month olds. The package says ages 6-24 months and I think an older child would enjoy it more. My daughter isn't quite sitting up yet so instead she just kind of pushes it around the room on it's side inadvertadly pushing buttons as she goes. It keeps her entertained for short periods of time. Another issue with it is that I wish it would stand upright better. It is pretty durable from my experience so far though. It took a fall from my daughter's high chair onto our carpet and still works fine.

The automatic shut off feature is nice too, no wasted batteries. The volume adjustment is a good touch as well since my daughter doesn't need to have her toys heard on the other side of the house when she's only inches away.

I'd reccomend this product to children who are closer to 12 months old.

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My daughter (1.5 years) absolutely loves this toy! She can easily activate it on her own, and loves the spinning action and music.

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Lots of learning and fun time with this toy. Who doesn't like spinning tops and music. Is a learning tool too!!

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I had purchased this product for my God Son, he has been enjoying it ever since he had received it as a gift from me. I had also purchased one about a year ago for my nephew who has played it a lot aw well, not it has been pasted to another nephew whom plays with it as well! A great gift to entertain a child!

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We received this as a gift a couple years ago when our son was under 1 year I believe. He has enjoyed the music and pushing the buttons and when he got older he was able to push the top to make it spin. It's too hard to push for a baby, but maybe a 18mo+ could do it. I would usually do it for him to entertain him. I am just now getting rid of this toy at a consigment sale and it's in very good condition. Durable and holds batteries. Not sure if I ever even changed them! Son is almost 3 now.

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I use research-grade microscopes in my work and bought this economy model for home use for looking at bugs and pond-life. The microscope was delivered promptly and well packed. Overall I was quite impressed. The image was sharp and showed no noticeable color fringes or distortion as found in "toy" microscopes. The instruction booklet was generic and did not cover this particular model (although principles were the same). This model is described as "reverse stereo" which means the image is right side up and moves in the same direction as the object. Variable magnification was achieved by rotating the objective turret (1x and 3x) and changing eyepieces (5x and 10x). The latter needed a small crosshead screwdriver which was not supplied. Another tool was supplied with no description which might be for lifting the bulbs from their mounts. Both top and bottom bulbs (12V 10W) got very hot in use, so pond water samples would quickly warm up. There are no condenser lenses associated with the light sources so they illuminate an area much bigger than the observation area , but they are bright enough for viewing. The field of view seems smaller than other stereo microscopes that I have used (20 mm for 10X magnification) and the eyepieces have to be close together to get a satisfactory stereo image (may be a problem if you have a big nose!). The rubber eye guards provided were a little too big to get the proper eye to eyepiece distance and so further reduced the field of view they are not necessary. However, all these quibbles are minor compared with the basic quality of the image. It was a delight to watch Rotifers swimming between strands of Spirogyra in 3 dimensions. I would rate it 5 for value-for-money and 3 compared with top grade microscopes hence my overall 4 rating.

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