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

and one helmeted knight

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

migratory fisherman

but not this drawing---it sold me immediately

perhaps done in art/illustration school in the 50s or so--I can take or leave most drawings of that sort

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