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

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

• Build basic math skills
• Engage students with different learning styles
• Hone problem-solving skills
• Develop coordination, memory, communication, and social skills
• Meet standards requirements in math
• 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.

PRAISE FOR MEGA-FUN MATH GAMES AND PUZZLES FOR THE ELEMENTARY GRADES

> --SUSAN BIGHAM, first grade teacher, James Fitzgerald School, Waltham, Massachusetts

> --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