Preferred Use Case

I bought magnetic building tiles (a.k.a., knockoff Magna-Tiles®) for the first time as a birthday present for BSM when he turned three. 

When I bought magnetic building tiles a few months later, as a Chanukah present for BSM, Husbinator shrewdly asked if I bought them for BSM or for myself. Fair enough: BSM was still doing fine with his starter set, but I simply could not cope with only 10 isosceles triangles, when an additional 2 isosceles triangles would finally let me build a dodecagon.

I mean, what were they thinking???

Anyway, various ones of my offspring have been enjoying building with the "magnetim," as they are called in Hebrew, for over four years now. As have I.

However, during the latest lockdown, BSM finally used the magnetim for their preferred purpose: geometry.

As part of a lesson on solids, BSM's teacher showed the kids a diagram of unfolding a hexagonal pyramid. Rather than expend time and energy searching for the dinky cardboard pyramids that came with BSM's geometry book, we got to build pyramids from the magnetim. At last!