An education system for teaching young children basic shapes, colors, numbers, letters and words is disclosed. The system is comprised of three board-game components. The first component teaches basic shapes and colors, the second component teaches numbers and colors and the third component teaches numbers, letters, and words.

An educational puzzle in which there are a base member having a plurality of recesses therein, a corresponding number of pegs, each of a different color, and a corresponding number of blocks, each of the same color as one of said pegs. The blocks, when properly assembled, form a continuous layer of the same outline and size as the base member, so as to cover the base member. Preferably, the base member is circular and the pieces have largely arcuate edge walls. In assembly, the child places the ...

An instructional device or educational toy having a question and answer format cooperating with a tone generator for generating a series of tones resulting in a recognizable melody in response to the user correctly answering a series of problems arranged in a predetermined sequence.

A system for distributing educational information in digital form to a plurality of schools simultaneously transmits the information via a satellite (15) to FM stations (18) which retransmit to schools having receivers for receiving the information and a main computer (101) for storing the information. Access to the information is subsequently provided to a plurality of students via classroom computers (111) and individual terminals (121). Usage and performance data is automatically stored in th...

Blocks of three different shapes can be detachably secured to a supporting surface such as a board and can form numbers from 0 to 9 inclusive in digital format.

A musical education display apparatus for musical instruction or composition. A display board is utilized with staff indicia which, in turn, is capable of removably restraining and displaying a series of notation indicia as desired. A retention storage tray, transparent overlay appendages and various means for restraining the musical notation removably in place on the staff indicia attached to the display board are utilized to conveniently display such musical notation for educating and/or compo...

A computer controlled interactive instruction system for teaching an individual comprising a peripheral having at least one sensor for producing a signal representing a function which has been or is to be manually performed by the individual, a first device for storing a sequence of signals representing instructions relating to the correct manner of performing the function, a first display coupled to the storing device for displaying the instructions, a second device for storing video and associ...

A board game is designed to convey nutritional education, by assigning to each space along a playing path on the board an association with a food. This association includes some nutritional characteristic such as its salt content per serving. The object of the game is for each player's piece to traverse the playing path while accumulating, by the piece landing on different spaces, a number of different food associations characterized by a total content of the particular ingredient in question. W...

A musical education game for teaching children to associate each letter name with a staff position and key position includes in exemplary form a keyboard operated array of hammers, each of which on the upstroke will lift or jiggle a corresponding note-related removable figurine or token and on the downstroke will sound a corresponding tone, if the token is positioned in proper location in a staff display by a student. A corresponding tone also sounds when the token is dropped into correct locati...

An amusement device for children and the like useful for spelling education includes a toy with a support structure comprising an elongated horizontal shaft extending between opposite end portions which are adapted to rest on a supporting surface and which are fashioned to resemble the head and tail portions of a "bee-like" insect. A plurality of spinner elements are mounted on the shaft between opposite end portions and are adapted for manual spinning on the shaft. Each of the spinning elements...