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 Puzzlesfor the Elementary Grades125 Ready-to-Use Activities That Teach Math Facts, Concepts, and Thinking SkillsThis 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 helpBuild basic math skillsEngage students with different learning stylesHone problem-solving skillsDevelop coordination, memory, communication,and social skillsMeet standards requirements in mathFill down time in the classroomIn 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.Praise for Mega-Fun MATH Games AND Puzzlesfor the Elementary Grades"Finally a fantastic collection of timeless math games and puzzles that can be used in a differentiated class, a math center, or even a math enrichment program."—Susan Bigham, first grade teacher, James Fitzgerald School, Waltham, Massachusetts"Students in my methods classes found the rich activities in this book the most useful resource presented to them in the course. Pre-service teachers used the activities as part of their lessons, to maintain skills, and as math centers in the classroom. One of the nicest features of the activities is that they require minimal resources and preparation time. No elementary mathematics teacher can afford to be without this magnificent resource in their professional collection!—Pamela A. Halpern, PhD., Associate Professor, Salem State College, Salem, Massachusetts."Michael Schiro's Megafun Math Games and Puzzles for the Elementary Grades stands apart in thanks to its unique pedagogical framework for game and puzzle use in the classroom! The "why" and the connections to the NCTM Standards are as important and useful as the print-ready classroom activities."—Suzanne Alejandre, Director of Professional Development, The Math Forum, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania