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

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

Author(s) Michael S. Schiro
ISBN10 047034475X
ISBN13 9780470344750
Format Paperback
Pages 336
Year Publish 2009 February

Synopsis

Make developing basic math skills fun and painless

125 Ready-to-Use Activities That Teach Math Facts, Concepts, and Thinking Skills

This hands-on resource is an educational and fun-filled collection of games and puzzles that help teach basic math skills to students in grades 1-5. Correlated to the national math standards, the games and puzzles will help even the most reluctant students become comfortable with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, place value, fractions, inequalities, multiples, and factors.

Using nothing more than paper and pencil, playing cards, coins, dice, and other easy to find items, parents and teachers can help kids learn and practice math the fun way. Mega-Fun Math Games and Puzzles for the Elementary Grades is designed to help:

  1. Build basic math skills
  2. Engage students with different learning styles
  3. Hone problem-solving skills
  4. Develop coordination, memory, communication,and social skills
  5. Meet standards requirements in math
  6. Fill down time in the classroom

In addition the book is filled with illustrative examples and contains easily reproducible pages. Now any child can become a math fan, playing the book's dynamic games and solving the challenging puzzles.

About The Author:
Michael S. Schiro, Ed.D. is an associate professor at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. He's written numerous articles and many books on teaching and learning math and is a frequent presenter at regional and national math teacher conferences.