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Make developing basic math skills fun and painless With this great collection of over 125 easy-to-use games, puzzles, and activities, teachers and parents can help kids comprehend fundamental math concepts, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, place value, fractions, and more. All games and puzzles use easy-to-find household items such as paper and pencil, playing cards, coins, and dice. The activities also help children develop problem-solving skills, such as testing hypotheses, creating strategies, and organizing information, as well as spatial relations skills, part-to-whole skills, and memory. Michael Schiro, EdD (Chestnut Hill, MA), is an associate professor at the School of Education at Boston College. He is the author of several books on teaching and learning math and is a frequent presenter at local and national math conferences.
Imagine being able to pull out a fun and engaging game to practice whatever math skill you're working on. Math in the Cards will equip you to excite your students and make learning fun. And all you need is a deck of cards! 100+ games cover whole number concepts, fractions, geometry, probability, pre-algebra, puzzles and more for grades K-8.
Kids will have a blast playing Ship Shapes, Hickory Dickory Clock, Pocket Change, and other games that reinforce important primary math skills, such as basic shapes, time, money, patterns, measurement, greater than/less than, and more. Series blurb: What better way to reinforce essential skills than by engaging young children in a variety of delightful games? This collection of easy-to-play, reproducible games gives kids practice in reading and math, and incorporates favorite themes you teach. Perfect for centers and choice time! For use with Grades K-2.
Using themes of historic events, holidays, famous birthdays, humorous happenings, and more, these instant math problems are a fun-filled way to build essential math problem-solving skills.
Here’s a super-fun, kid-pleasing way to introduce and reinforce graphing! Your students will love creating graph art pictures like Wiggle Worm, Mystery Letter, and What’s Hatching? as they practice making simple bar and line graphs, and build skills in addition and subtraction. Fully reproducible! For use with Grades 1-2.
