Very Satisfying Shackman Fraction Learner Set, Complete with Spinner, 1960s vintage Japanese nesting eggs and one helmeted knight

and one helmeted knight

My very favorite (pictured first) charts a handful of common insects

is just lovely thing--both as lovingly carved and constructed folk art object and as a sort of iconic symbol of lounging

but not this drawing---it sold me immediately

I would use this gorgeous slab-formed studio pottery plate/platter/tray for serving anything and everything

Very Satisfying Shackman Fraction Learner Set, Complete with Spinner, 1960s vintage Japanese nesting eggs and one helmeted knightI've had just a couple of these Shackman "Fraction Learner" sets over the years and will always scoop them up when I come across them. Definitely an excellent tool for teaching fractions as portions of a whole, with six circles divided up into differently sized slices, and a corresponding spinner to direct activity but also just excellent aesthetically and design wise, and there is great pleasure in mixing and matching the segments comprising each