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Summary: Great Resource!
Review: I am an LD Resource teacher in an elementary school and this is a great resource for reinforcing basic math skills. Students enjoy playing the games and are practicing their skills, as well. It is also nice because you don't spend a lot of money for some great games.
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Summary: Great ways to get kids interested in Math!
Review: I have made and used most of the games in the book and they are terrific. They are great for center activities and to reinforce prior learning experiences. They are developmentally appropriate for grades 1-3 and I have used them with great success with 6-8-year olds. They are also fun for the children to help color and make. Great investment for the classroom or homeschool stiuations!
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Summary: Great ways to get kids interested in Math!
Review: I have made and used most of the games in the book and they are terrific. They are great for center activities and to reinforce prior learning experiences. They are developmentally appropriate for grades 1-3 and I have used them with great success with 6-8-year olds. They are also fun for the children to help color and make. Great investment for the classroom or homeschool stiuations!
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Summary: I'm very pleased!
Review: I ordered this book for my daughter to help with her computational skills. She loves the games in the book and is learning because of the fun. The games are easy to photocopy and put together, and easy to store in their file folders. This book was just what I was looking for.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: This may not be fair, as I did not go through all the activities, but the emphasis on low level skills in most of the games tells the whole picture. Yes, playing these games beats doing endless worksheets mindlessly, but to what end? As research has shown (read Children and Number by Martin Hughes), one of the biggest problems faced by beginning learners is the transit from their concrete experience of maths to the abstract knowledge. In other words, while most children are equipped with fundamental math skills when they enter schools, they have difficulties going beyond concrete experiences.
My reasons for not giving this book more stars are: 1)it fails to make connections between concrete experience and symbolic representations; 2)it overemphasizes on basic skills; 3)the games are not really fun and creative; 4)they are not really effective in improving math skills. 5 take away 4, so there you have it!
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