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Using the Rubik’s Cube for blind children

A new pedagogical technology for children with vision loss for the development of fine motor skills and understanding of three-dimensional objects. Rubik’s Cube is a world-famous Hungarian puzzle that is a cube made up of smaller cubes that can rotate around axes that are invisible from the outside. Each of the squares on each side of the cube is colored in a certain color. In the blind version, each color has a certain tactile designation (circle, triangle, dots, etc.). Side rotations allow you to change the order of colored squares in different ways. The player’s task is to rotate the sides of the cube and compose them in such a way that each face consists of squares of the same color. The world record for solving the cube with closed eyes is 12.1 seconds, set by 14-year-old Australian Charlie Eggins. The project is supported by the Consulate of Hungary in Yekaterinburg (Russia) and is being developed at the boarding school for visually impaired children named after S. A. Martirosyan (Verkhnyaya Pyshma).

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