LUK Learning system
I stumbled upon this wonderful children game in the booth selling IQ games at Tesco three years ago. I was impressed as a result of innovative contents. Besides, children can start to play by themselves and checking their unique answers. I still remember one of many puzzles showing the most notable view of the swimmer wearing a cap, and also the kids are asked to recognize the respective side view with the swimmer. That requires a long imagination in the children. However, the cost scared me off. Its at least RM600 . The sales lady informed me that game had a lot more than many years history in Germany.
Okay, you may not know very well what are these claims Luk and Bambino Luk, Ive found an online site that demonstrates this. Investigate demonstration and you may understand the reason
BambinoLuk (2-4 years old) : Introduction, Demonstration , Samples
MiniLuk (4-8 years old): Introduction, Demonstration , Samples
(note: I attempted to buy at their store in mid 2009 but appears to be they did not sell outside US)
I do think you may be impressed too exploring the Samples and demonstration . I strongly think that by exposing your children to those games, we have been developing their intelligence, regarding sequencing, imagination and association. Youll be able to tell that I am convinced and i also would buy, but forking out RM600 is incredibly painful, especially in a stage that I dont know my children want.
By the way, We are a large fan of Dr Glenn Doman(proposed using flash cards) and Dr Howard Gardner(proposed Multiple Intelligence concept), In my opinion that parents should stimulate children to think and sharpen their brain because brain development happen at early childhood. I had created finish reading their books in the past. Thats the main reason I had been convinced without difficulty.
It so happened i had a short vacation to Germany inside following month. Although insufficient time, inside the available a couple of hours, I were able to check out a bookstore to discover more regarding this Luk system. Yes, the sales girl was right that it was popular in German for over 3 decades. I had a hard time to determine what you should purchase. Unlike other regions worldwide, in Germany, the Luk system includes a very wide varieties, and I was selecting from a range of 50-100 books. Each of them is all about 5-7Euro. I aquired several books along with a controller, amounting to RM200 while using kind the aid of the Germany salesman translating for me. Thats 1/3 in the price in comparison with what I saw.
My son had completed all of the exercises of this bambinoLUK set. I desired to get more, but I didnt have possiblity to visit Germany i couldnt afford a vacation prefer that. I stumbled onto a toy shop in United Square Singapore located in the basement. The state website might be found here. My son had a chance to view it and tried out before I paid SGD100 for a couple of 5 books. I knew in Germany and US, this is cheaper but due to the fact wed an opportunity to try it out, I chose to pay for. May be partly because the owner was very friendly and kind. As expected, I discovered later which it was sold cheaper, about 50 % price in US. My pal tried to obtain Amazon, but again, since not offered directly by Amazon, they did not sell outside of US.
I also stumbled on a cheap version, bought from pasar malam. The controller looked much like the miniLuk system. It was sold at cheaper price, but still at RM160! Though the quality had no match to the miniLuk system. Besides, Also i suspected that it will be pirated copy. Checking the contents, I found how the Germany Intelligence amongst people didnt have. It appeared to be a compilation which consists of a variety of subjects, without a key learning theme.
I introduced this wonderful product to numerous people. One friend found a way to do parallel imports. The website is introducing the games at far more affordable price. Items are genuine top quality goods. You can visit the web site G-minimall here. Id got a new couple more sets, i couldnt find in Malaysia nor Singapore making use of their help.
I admire German engineers for innovation and good engineering. I believe IQ games similar to this have a role on this. I value innovation models like this. But please do not get me wrong, I do not believe that IQ games can make a young child more clever and definitely you are unable to build a genius beyond these. Nevertheless the IQ games is likely to make a child more intelligent in such a way defined by Dr Howard Gardner. But unfortunately, its not commonly available to us….