type Education

Cacapo typeE

Education

New architectural toy is launched!!
New type of educational and communicative tools for children.
This is suitable for children ages 4 to 12.

Concept

Building activities and Communication

The set is composed of paper-tubes and plastic joints only.
Children make structures by themselves and communicate with each other in the process of trial and error.

Paper-tubes

Length(cm)	Number
60	6
43	7
28	9
13	21

Joints

Type	Number
5leg	20
1leg	6
Hinge	14

Why are there 4 types of length variation?

A cube cannot be made by using the same length paper-tubes because the numbers of paper-tubes do not match. Children need to make structures by connecting different length paper-tubes. During the course of process, they will experience mathematical ideas such as 1/2 and 1/4. Furthermore, they will naturally learn how to make stable structures.
After numerical experiments are repeated, we believe that the numbers of paper-tubes and the length variation would foster children's creativity in the most effective way.