"I bought Fractiles for my son who was 3 at the time and he played with it for hours at a time. He still plays with it and is now 5. He can make all of the designs on the outside cover. He also comes up with cool designs of his own." - Denise M.

Persons with disabilities
"As an adult day program - we are constantly searching for activities that will catch and keep the attention of our Alzheimers participants.

Fractiles has been a very successful tool for us - keeping one participant engaged for sometimes hours as he waits for his wife to pick him up. He always recognizes it as something familiar when we pull it out and ask him to help us with our "project"."- A.M.
Director - Carelink - Adult Day Care Providers,  City of Boulder Senior Services Boulder, CO

"Since I'm incapacitated due to a stroke, I find that Fractiles-7 is a delightful way to spend a few hours. As a retired commercial artist, I also find that Fractiles-7 compliments both my interests and my meager talents."
- John L. Retired Commercial Artist, San Diego, CA

Developmentally disabled
"My 32 year old developmentally disabled daughter Amy really loves Fractiles-7. Amy enjoys hours and hours of playing with Fractiles. The magnetic tiles are easy to manipulate and help keep her designs in place." - Joan S.

Hospital patients
"My eleven year old granddaughter was recently in the hospital for surgery. The pre-op nurse, always looking for calming and soothing activities to help relax the children before surgery, gave my granddaughter a set of Fractiles to play with. My granddaughter and the other children awaiting surgery just loved Fractiles. And it did have a calming affect. My granddaughter enjoyed Fractiles so much that I bought her a set of her own. She and her cousin play with Fractiles together for hours on end, totally ignoring the TV!"

Travelers
"Our children, ages six and seven, just play with Fractiles all the time! We bring it in the car for long rides and it really keeps them content. Fractiles is a wonderful travel toy!" - Terry, Mother of Two

Math Puzzle Fans
"Tiling theory is one of the hottest topics in today's mathematical research. Fractiles-7 is a marvelous way to introduce the wonders of tiling patterns to pre-college age students. The 7-fold patterns are positively addictive! One can spend tireless hours creating endless patterns of amazing intricacy and beauty."
- M.G., World Famous Scientific American Puzzle Master

"If you are like me, you will want a set of these magnetic little rhombuses to build many wonderful and imaginative designs. There are extensions of this concept, in the genera of geometric "dissections" that take this concept well beyond mere child's play, and may have implications for design paradigms with deep educational and even professional consequences in such fields as architecture and publishing."
- Dr. Phillips Verner Bradford, Former Executive Director of the Colorado Advanced Technology Institute
and Author of the remarkable book Ota Benga, the Pygmy in the Zoo

Eye doctors
"Thank you for creating the Fractiles product! In our vision therapy we use Fractiles to improve visual-perceptual skills in children and adults. Fractiles is a great tool to improve visual-spatial relations, visual memory, visual form perception, visual discrimination, visual form, constancy, visual closure, and visual figure-ground skills. As behavioral optometrists, we recognize that vision develops during infancy and childhood and adequate visual skills will only develop if the proper stimulation to the visual system is provided. We use parquetry blocks to develop many of these skills as a beginning activity. Once the visual patient is successful with this type of task, Fractiles is introduced as a fun, creative and challenging way for our patients to hone their visual-perceptual skills. Thanks again!"
Sincerely,  Dr. Dorothy M. Parrott,  Dr. Marisa Atria Kruger,  Dr. Audrey L. Dockins,  Behavioral Optometrists,  Lakewood, CO

Editorial Review Toysrus.com & Amazon.com
Wonderful fun with symmetry! Arrange 192 magnetized plastic tiles (in yellow, red, and blue) on a 12-inch square steel activity board and discover just how many patterns and combinations are possible. (You guessed it: a lot!) The clever part is that all three shapes are types of diamonds, and their angles represent six different fractions of 360 degrees. Dozens of clever designs and pictograms are featured on the cardboard carrying case, including "Ribbon Candy," "Scrambled Mandala," and "Funky Chicken." But creating designs is only half the fun; instructions are given for several puzzles and games too, plus an explanation of different kinds of symmetry. Ideal for travel, though the tiles are probably too small for children under 6. --R.F.