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Mega-Fun Math Games and Puzzles for the Elementary Grades
Over 125 Activities that Teach Math Facts, Concepts, and Thinking Skills

by Michael Schiro

     

If you are looking for some math materials for the lower grades (1st-5th) Mega-Fun Math Games and Puzzles for the Elementary Grades offers 125 read-to-use activities that place the stress on math facts, concepts and thinking skills.

The games and puzzles will get even the most reluctant youngsters comfortable with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, place value, fractions, inequalities, multiples and factors.

Utilizing paper and pencil, playing cards, coins, dice and other easy to find items, parents and teachers can make learning or practicing basic math skills fun. With reproducible exercises and plenty of advice on how to present each concept, you don't have to have a Ph.D. in mathematics to use this workbook.

If you are home schooling your child, this is definitely a volume you'll want to take a look at, and teachers short on math exercises will find it very useful too.

The Book

Jossey-Bass
February 2009
Paperback
9780470344750
Nonfiction / Math [grades 1-5]
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The Reviewer

Bob Walch
Reviewed 2009
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