The I-ZAQ-9 cubes are a stack of 27 blocks.

When looking at one side you will see 3 rows and 3 columns.

My class and I found the I-ZAQ-9 cubes a really fun way to learn maths. Our teacher would put activities up on the board. Some of them told us a certain way to arrange the blocks and others told us to stack the blocks in 3 rows of single digit numbers and the sum of the three numbers would have to add up to a certain number.

Our teacher would also split the class into groups of 3/4 and we would have 2 full IZAQ-9s among the whole class and each group would have 9 cubes. Our school rented the I-ZAQ-9 cubes so we only had them from September to October. I loved the I-ZAQ-9 cubes and I know my class did too.

*Junior and senior infants used the cubes to measure their heights.

*1^st class used the cubes to practice ordering numbers.

*6^th class managed integrate maths, French and Gaeilge while using them.

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