Reading a frozen snapshot of the extraction artefacts, taken 2026-08-15 07:05 UTC at commit e96504e — 288 files. Figures are recounted from that snapshot, not from a live pipeline.
The Work Record

The field

derived

Four things are read about each material: where it sits relative to others, the one quality it varies, how far it has moved from the thing in the hand toward the symbol, and the age children take it up. Three of them can be read from the books. The fourth cannot, and it is left empty rather than guessed.

Every material was read twice, independently. Where the two readings agreed, the reading stands. Where they differed it is shown as a difference and not averaged into one — 100% agreed (102 of 102 readings).

colourdimensionformquantitysoundtexturewritten-languageLong Stair — 1 sourced sentenceMovable Alphabet — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceBead Frame — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceCylinder Blocks — 1 sourced sentenceGolden Bead Bars of Ten — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceGolden Bead Ten Bar — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceGolden Bead Unit — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceMonochord — 1 sourced sentenceSmall Bead Frame — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceSolid Geometrical Insets — 1 sourced sentencePlane Geometric Insets — 1 sourced sentenceMetal Insets — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentencePink Tower — 3 sourced sentencesSandpaper Letters — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceMusical Bells — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceBroad Stair — 1 sourced sentenceGeometric Cards — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceLong Stair — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentencePlane Geometric Insets — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceSandpaper Board No. 1 — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceSandpaper Board No. 2 — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceSandpaper Boards — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentencePlane Geometrical Insets — 1 sourced sentenceRough and Smooth Board — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceSensorial Rods — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceSolid Insets — 2 sourced sentencesTouch Board with Graduated Strips — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceBoxes of Fabrics — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceColour Boxes — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentenceRough and Smooth Boards — placed from the books' description, not a quoted sentencenothingorders ittaken up earlierlater
one dot, one material201 more are named in the books and not yet read — not drawn, because we never estimate.

Difficulty

22

of 34 materials read

From the ordering sentences alone. Materials no book orders have no position, which is most of them.

The senses

30

of 34 materials read

4 isolate no single quality. That is recorded, not missing.

Abstraction

1

of 34 materials read

Read only where a sentence describes the movement outright. Most materials have none, and show nothing rather than a low reading.

Readiness

—

nothing read

This one waits for children. Age is something you see when a child chooses a material for herself, and no number of books will supply it.

The chains

Some materials present the same idea again with less of it left to hold — a chain running from the thing in the hand toward the symbol on paper. Where the books describe that movement, the chain can be drawn.

mathematics / decimal system

0 of 2 steps read

Every material in this chain is in the catalogue, and not one of them has a sentence describing the movement. The chain cannot be drawn from what the books say — only from what they name.

language

0 of 3 steps read

Every material in this chain is in the catalogue, and not one of them has a sentence describing the movement. The chain cannot be drawn from what the books say — only from what they name.

Named in the chains, absent from the books

These were written into the chains by hand before the books were read. The harvested corpus does not contain them — some because they are activities rather than objects, some because the volume that describes them has not been read yet. They are listed rather than quietly dropped.

  • Numeral Cards with Beads
  • Stamp Game
  • Written algorithm
  • Spontaneous writing
  • Reading

What is not read yet

9 / 10
have a kind of self-correction recorded
of the materials whose books say how they show a mistake
0 / 234
marked readable from a photograph
which work a camera can see, and which need a person
34 / 234
materials read so far
the rest are named in the catalogue and not yet read

These are gaps in what has been read, not in what exists. Each is filled by reading more carefully, and none of them is filled by assuming.

Readings are computed from the two runs when this page renders — there is no merged answer stored anywhere. Every reading carries how it was reached, and the catalogue shows it beside the material. Read by google/gemini-3.7-flash (google-vertex), spec field-geometry-v4.