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June 2014 New Specialty Toys — Travel

By TDmonthly Staff

Travel Fractiles
From: FRACTILES, Inc.

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Age Range: 6 and up
Gender: Boys And Girls

Category:

STEM Skills
American-Made
Travel

MSRP: $29.95

Fractiles - a Real STEM toy!

These 96 brilliantly colored, flexible magnetic tiles come with a sturdy 8" by 8" black textured steel activity board, color-illustrated instructional material, and a double-record album-style package to store the board and tiles. The diamond-shaped tiles are used to create everything from snowflakes and starbursts to a bouquet of flowers and swarm of fireflies. Made in the USA.
— Patti Tepper-Rasmussen, owner of Learning Tree Toys, Games & Books, Inc. in Oklahoma City, Okla., told TDmonthly in an April 2013 survey that Fractiles are one of the store's best-selling travel products.
— "For the past several years, my wife and I have featured Fractiles in workshops we do with public school students. We have been following the currently popular STEM philosophy of combining Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics to get kids interested in how to teach themselves and learn independently, with really promising results. Fractiles is ideally suited to this kind of program and extremely popular with our students as it encourages creativity and innovation." - Professor John L. Hall; University of Colorado, Boulder; Nobel Prize for Physics, 2005

"It is a perfect 'STEM' toy that teaches math while kids play...Fractiles was way ahead of its time, and now is perfectly positioned to become a hot seller." - Sallie Kashiwa, owner/president of Timbuck Toys in Co.

"A great selling toy, [Fractiles] have become one of our personal favorites. They are educational, reasonably priced, and made in America by a reputable company." - Kristine Reed from Whispering Winds in Mr. Dora, Fla.

Pet pods are a 4 inch stuffed animal that has a back that opens up to reveal a set of ear buds inside. The Pet pods where designed to solve a nagging problem for parents across the world. How do I get my children to stop losing their ear buds? The pet pods have a small chain and clasp for attaching them to back packs or purses. Each pet pod also has an educational component to them. At the bottom of the pet pod is a QR code that when scanned goes to a educational site about that animal. Once at this site the user can also register their pet pod on the virtual forest. This is a Social site designed to allow the user to post pictures of their pets, name them and also receive outdoor related content. With this site we can help inspire children to get more involved with the outdoors using technology to our advantage!