Overview
An ideal resource for parents and teachers who want to help their students gain math confidence and be ready to take chances, find their own errors, and challenge their peers
More than eighty games and activities in this newly updated edition help kids think critically about math instead of just memorizing rules. Group and individual games teach fun, useful ways to manipulate odd and even numbers, prime and composite numbers, common and decimal fractions, and factors, divisors, and multiples of numbers. Counting, calculating, and writing numbers in languages from other cultures provide more practice in understanding how numbers work. Riddles, puzzles, number tricks, and calculator games boost estimating and computation skills for every math student.
Reviews
“Zaslavsky offers an innovative approach to teaching the properties and relationships of numbers and their relevance in the everyday world.” —School Library Journal
“This book is fun and refreshing.” —Teaching Children Mathematics
“Written in an easy style that both entertains and instructs.” —Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School
"Exceptionally well organized and presented."—Midwest Book Review
Author Biography
Claudia Zaslavsky was the author of Math Games and Activities from Around the World, More Math Games and Activities from Around the World, Africa Counts, and many others.
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