The full power of PrimeSense. In your school. In your program. In your community.

The PrimeSense Mat System is a workshop-based immersive learning environment that brings the complete visual language into group settings. Built for schools, after-school programs, enrichment centers, and community organizations that want to give children something that lasts.

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This is not a curriculum add-on. It is a cognitive training environment.

What the Mat System Is

Most educational programs teach children more content. The PrimeSense Mat System does something different. It builds the cognitive foundation that makes content learnable in the first place.

The Mat System brings the complete PrimeSense visual language into a physical group learning environment. Children move through the color and symbol system with their whole body, not just their eyes. They see patterns in numbers. They feel patterns in rhythm. They hear patterns in music. All through the same visual language, in the same session, at the same time.

This is perceptual learning at full scale. When a child encounters the PrimeSense system through movement, color, sound, and social play simultaneously, the perceptual pathways build faster and run deeper than any single-modality approach can produce.

The result is not a child who has completed a program. It is a child whose brain processes symbolic information differently, across every subject, for the rest of their education.

Immersive. Facilitated. Designed for groups.

What a Workshop Looks Like

Each PrimeSense workshop is a facilitated experience led by Don Ariel and his team. Children engage with the mat system physically, moving through the visual language as a group, building pattern recognition through play, rhythm, and discovery rather than instruction.

Workshops are designed to be experienced, not just observed. Educators and program directors who attend alongside their students consistently report that the experience changes how they think about their own teaching.

Every workshop includes:

  • Full facilitation by the Intellivance team. No preparation required from your staff.
  • A complete introduction to the PrimeSense visual language across mathematics, music, and language domains.
  • Take-home materials for participating children including access to the Prime Slap card game and Alice app to extend the learning beyond the workshop day.
  • A debrief session with program directors and educators on integration and follow-up.

Built on the same science that trained thousands of soldiers to perform under pressure.

Why It Works

Don Ariel spent 40 years studying how humans learn to perform when it counts. As co-founder of Raydon, a military simulation company, he built the systems that trained National Guard soldiers to recognize patterns faster, make better decisions, and respond instinctively under pressure. The insight at the heart of that work never changed. Performance is a pattern recognition problem. And pattern recognition is trainable.

PrimeSense is that insight applied to children.

The Mat System is where that science operates at its fullest expression. Multi-sensory engagement across visual, auditory, kinesthetic, and social channels simultaneously. Physical movement through the pattern environment. Rhythmic repetition that builds perceptual pathways without rote memorization. Group dynamics that create social reinforcement for discovery rather than performance anxiety.

This is not a theory borrowed from an academic paper. It is a system built by someone who spent four decades making it work in the hardest possible conditions and then spent years adapting it for children.

The core visual language is protected by a granted method patent. The workshop methodology is the result of years of direct application across learner populations.

The soldiers who performed best were not the ones who had memorized the most procedures. They were the ones who had learned to see patterns so deeply that their responses became instinctive. PrimeSense gives children that same foundation.

Don Ariel, Founder, Intellivance

Built for programs that want to offer something genuinely different.

  • Schools and Districts

    Bring the PrimeSense Mat System into your school as an enrichment experience, a math intervention supplement, or a schoolwide pattern thinking initiative. Works across grade levels. Aligns with cognitive development research foundational to mathematics and literacy education.

  • After-School and Enrichment Programs

    Differentiate your program with a workshop experience that parents will talk about. The PrimeSense Mat System is designed to be delivered in a single session or across a multi-session program format. No prior math background required from participants.

  • Community Organizations and Summer Programs

    Libraries, community centers, parks and recreation programs, and summer camps. The Mat System works in any group environment where children gather and adults want to give them something meaningful. Accessible for every learner regardless of ability or background.

Designed for the edges first. Better for everyone as a result.

The PrimeSense visual language was not designed for the average learner. It was designed by studying how the brain works when sight, sound, speech, or memory is limited. When you design for the hardest cases first, what you build works better for everyone.

Children with dyslexia, ADHD, small working memory, sensory differences, and speech delays consistently respond to the PrimeSense system in ways that traditional math instruction cannot reach. The multi-sensory, movement-based, pattern-first approach gives every learner a way in that does not require them to first succeed at the thing they struggle with most.

Every child in a PrimeSense workshop is working from the same visual language. No child is ahead. No child is behind. Everyone is discovering.

The Mat System is the deepest expression of a complete ecosystem.

Children who experience the PrimeSense Mat System are encountering the same visual language they can access every day through the Prime Slap card game and the Alice app. Every color, every symbol, every pattern connection they discovered in the workshop is reinforced every time they play a round of Prime Slap or spend ten minutes in the Alice: Pattern Gym app.

The workshop plants the seed. The ecosystem keeps it growing.

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This is a conversation, not a transaction.

The PrimeSense Mat System is not an off-the-shelf purchase. Every program is designed in conversation with the institution, the program director, and the learning environment. Pricing, format, and scope are all determined based on what your program actually needs.

If you are a school administrator, enrichment director, or community program leader who wants to understand what bringing PrimeSense into your environment would look like, we want to hear from you.

The conversation starts here.

We respond to every inquiry personally. You will hear from Don or a member of the Intellivance team directly.