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Unifix® Software

Review this program's Universal Design for Learning features in the Examples and Illustrations area.
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Unifix Software, created by Didax Media, is based on the manipulative mathematics materials called Unifix®, developed in 1952. Unifix, a combination of interlocking cubes and other materials, offers a challenging, positive basis for exploring early math concepts. Its flexible, adaptive qualities make it an ideal tool for supporting a variety of cognitive and heuristic mathematical activities.

Product Highlights

Unifix Software is a flexible, versatile program that develops mathematical skills with both manipulative and computer tools. Students can play with the cubes that accompany the software and then explore on screen, mimicking their hands-on play; or they can work with the cubes and computer to learn patterning, counting, addition, and subtraction. Students can “snap” and “unsnap” the cubes and rods onto the on-screen grid, rotate them in 45-degree increments, or sort them into piles. These activities reinforce the transition from the concrete to the abstract that students must make in order to understand math.

Unifix Software features include:

  • customizable activities

  • supplied graphics and compatibility with other graphics programs so students can create original grid backgrounds

  • flexible tool sets that can be customized for different ages and abilities

  • single-switch access that allows students with disabilities to use the manipulatives with the rest of the class.

Disclaimer

CAST does not necessarily endorse this product or consider it fully universally designed. CAST applauds the inclusion of universally designed features in this product and wishes to illustrate some of those features for educational purposes.

Page updated April 11, 2003

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