At Team LiveCube, we believe that all people have tremendous potential for mental growth throughout the course of their lives. To stay mentally sharp it is important to develop these skills all through life. As we all know this is a difficult task. LiveCube is poised to meet this challenge. Creative Learning through playing. What is Creative Learning? LiveCube engages children in coming up with their own way of solving a problem. In this case a puzzle problem. Other than just simply solving the puzzle LiveCube can engage children by allowing them to see spatial placement and common math equations as an actual 3D representation as opposed to just numbers on paper. What better way to show them volume or area. Creative Learning is about learning why the equations works instead of just encouraging kids to memorize problems and sequences. Many times the most difficult task in teaching is to get the students´ attention long enough so that they will listen. Teachers are constantly inventing ways to grab these kids´ attention. LiveCube can engage children and help meet this challenge. What better way to learn then to offer something engaging such as playing. LiveCube is the tool you can use to do just that. As the recipient of numerous awards and use in over 60 school districts nationwide LiveCube for Kids and Parents has proven to be effective. The new LiveCube is extremely versitile & quite a departure from it´s 3D Pentominoes cousin. Take a look at our information and product line to decide which is right for you. LiveCube: DNA is the building block of life. This simple component can yield such variety & complexity. Start with something simple and depending on how you arrange the components it can form something as simple as bacteria or as complex as animals. LiveCube is to cube puzzles as DNA is to life (hence the name). LiveCube can make all cube puzzles by simple methods of snapping cubes in place. The cubes come apart after assembly so it is completely reusable. Pentominoes: LiveCube for Kids and Parents is our 3D Pentominoes game that is suitable for children as young as preschool. We start off by letting the children play by having them make simple flat 2D patterns. It teaches the children to start recognizing shapes. Exercising the brain this way allows the children to recognize the same shape even if it´s a different color, flipped over, or turned upside down. Next we throw in some creativity by associating names and characters to each shape to help children understand symbology (important for developing language skills as well as math such as when using variables). From 2D we then ease children into the realm of 3D by taking the 2D shapes and arranging them so that not all of them are flat against a surface. With this we are developing the children´s spatial recognition skills. With this training they can easily visualize idea & concepts in 3D. LiveCube Teaching Tips: Go on our  forum & see how other educators are using LiveCube Download the Handy LiveCube Pentominoes Teacher´s Guide & Student Worksheets