Elephant Weight 数学启蒙早教玩具 by Shanghai Art and Design Academy

Elephant Weight 数学启蒙早教玩具 by Shanghai Art and Design Academy is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2023 A' Design Award 铁奖 in 玩具、游戏与业余爱好产品设计 Competition Category.

铁玩具· 2023

Elephant Weight 数学启蒙早教玩具

by Shanghai Art and Design Academy

Client: Shanghai Art and Design Academy

A' Design Award 铁奖 Winner in 玩具 Category

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The Design

About Elephant Weight 数学启蒙早教玩具

《大象砝码》是一款面向三岁以上儿童的数学启蒙早教玩具。设计灵感源自中国传统故事"曹冲称象",即以等量替换的方法,用众多小物件来称量大物件。每一个小象形砝码上都标注了各自的质量,从5克到100克不等。将物体放入小船中,标记下沉的水位线,随后不断加入砝码,直至船身重新回到该水位线。儿童通过累加砝码上标注的数值,认识重量与数字。

The Recognition

About the A' Design Award 铁奖

Elephant Weight 数学启蒙早教玩具是 A' Design Award 铁奖得主，这是授予满足人们对设计精良的创作所期待的专业与工业要求的优良设计的声望认可。铁奖得主展现出其创作者的高超技艺、高度专业化、专家级的理解力和创造能力。预计Elephant Weight 数学启蒙早教玩具将成为一件备受推崇、令人钦佩且被珍爱的创作，既实用又创新。这件赢得 A' Design Award 铁奖的设计整合了行业最佳实践，并拥有与专业知识和才华相结合的称职技术特性。Elephant Weight 数学启蒙早教玩具因其严谨而受到尊重，旨在提供有助于让世界变得更美好的生活品质改善。

Behind the Design

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Credits, team members and technical details provided by the designer.

Unique Properties: This is a math early education toy for children over 3 years old. It is developed from the "equivalent replacement" in the story of " Cao Chong Weighs the Elephant ". Each small elephant weight is marked with 5g, 10g, 20g, 30g, 40g, 50g and 100g according to the weight. Weigh according to the hull sinking,children can clearly feel the weight of different scales and enhance the sensitivity to weight and numbers, to strengthen children's careful observation of small objects around them.
Dimensions & Packaging: Wave body: 270 mm long × Width 150 mm × 130 mm high;
Hull: 254 mm long × 134 mm wide × Height 91 mm;
Flag pole: 10mm in diameter and 155mm in length;
Flag: 52 mm long × Height 36 mm
Tags: early education, toys, children, mathematics
Production Technology: CNC processing, painting, manual glue dropping
Design Challenge: 1. Spring size: Different sizes of springs have different support forces
2. Weights - Elephant: Mold making
Research: 1.Regarding the research on the progress of elementary school mathematics, generally speaking, starting from the third grade of primary school, the unit of mass learning is grams, kilograms, and tons.
2.Compression spring:
According to the force properties, springs can be divided into tension springs, compression springs, torsion springs, and bending springs. We choose a compression spring, which has a certain gap between the coils. When subjected to external loads, the spring contracts and deforms, storing deformation energy.
Inspiration: The traditional Chinese story "Cao Chong Weighs the Elephant" tells that Cao Chong used the method of "equal replacement" to replace the elephant with many stones, and made marks on the boat to make the elephant and the stone have the same effect. According to the weight of the stone, the weight of the elephant can be obtained. Solve this problem by transforming "big" into "small". We combine the " Equivalent Substitution " in the story with children's toys.
Project Duration: The project started in March 2022 and ended in March 2023 at Shanghai
Operation Flow: Step 1) Put any items you want to weigh；Step 2) Mark the sinking position of the ship with the anchor；Step 3) put in the elephant weights to make the hull return to the anchor position；Step 4) Calculate the weight of the object with the elephant weights.
Patents: Shanghai Art and Design Academy
Image Credits: Yuxuan Zhang
Nana Liao
Sha Yang