Benefits for Students

Zometool Really Makes Learning Exciting!

Zometool is a new way to explore the numbers and structures connecting math, biology, chemistry, fine art, architecture and technology. Your students will become involved, motivated and ready to learn more!

Hands-on Approach
Makes Learning Easy and Fun

In the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS)* conducted by the National Center for Education Statistics, researchers found a large disparity between U.S. and Japanese students. In 44 percent of Japanese lessons, students were assigned to invent new solutions, proofs, or procedures on their own which required them to think and reason.

According to the report, less than one percent of U.S. lessons used these methods. Zometool is the ultimate math and science manipulative. Learning theorists argue that high-quality modeling tools make it easier and more enjoyable for students to learn, as their capacity for abstract reasoning is complemented by their tactile and visual skills. With Zometool, students understand new concepts better, and find them more interesting.

Benefits for Students

Zometool offers students the opportunity to make the creation, even of highly sophisticated models, an enjoyable and engaging activity. It offers substantial benefits to students that go beyond its valuable support of curricular material:

Powerful 3D Pattern Recognition

Using Zometool requires students to (painlessly) acquire sophisticated three-dimensional pattern recognition. Each of the Strut types (Blue, Yellow, Red and Green) is a complete a system by itself; students become fluent in the features and nuances of each of these systems as well as the interactions and connections between them!

Self Confidence

One of the most rewarding aspects of using Zometool with students is to witness the pride with which they glow after their discoveries and achievements, parents have often been astonished after workshop at the what their children have built.

Big Picture Mindset

The fact that they are learning about Math, Art, Engineering, Biology and Chemistry from the same system reinforces the interconnectedness of all things and encourages students to look for connections across disciplines broadening their perspective.

There are many other benefits that come from using the system, make sure you read some of the true quotes we’ve gotten from educators.

(in case you missed it in the teacher’s section)

“I first discovered Zometool at the Education Expo of Colorado when I was 13 years old...

...I'm now a math major at the Colorado School of Mines, and I've nearly completed my degree. I find I'm becoming more and more fascinated by the mathematical aspects of Zometool...

...you'll often find me sitting on the living room floor with one or two of my five younger siblings, building a tower or a rocket ship or a tunnel for their toy cars. This has to be the only thing I've ever found that is both interesting from a theoretical standpoint *and* so fun that my little brother and sisters all want to play with it.”

Read Charles’ full story here

Charles T. Darrow, still building...