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    Counting & Number Bonds: Math You Can Play, #1
    Counting & Number Bonds: Math You Can Play, #1
    Counting & Number Bonds: Math You Can Play, #1
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    Counting & Number Bonds: Math You Can Play, #1

    By Denise Gaskins

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    Prepare your child for math success — by playing games!

    You'll love these math games because they give your child a sturdy foundation for understanding mathematics.

    Young children play with counting and number recognition. Older students explore place value, build number sense, and begin learning the basics of addition.

    Counting & Number Bonds features 21 kid-tested games, offering a variety of challenges for preschool and early-elementary learners. Chapters include:

    •    Early Counting: Practice subitizing — recognizing small numbers of items at a glance — and learn the number symbols.

    •    Childhood Classics: Traditional folk games invite the whole family to enjoy playing with math.

    •    Number Bonds: Build a mental picture of the relationships between numbers as you begin to explore addition.

    •    Bigger Numbers: Develop familiarity with two-digit numbers and promote strategic thinking skills.

    Math games prevent math anxiety. Games pump up your child's mental muscle, reduce the fear of failure, and generate a positive attitude toward mathematics.

    Parents can use these games to enjoy quality time with your children. Classroom teachers like them as warm-ups and learning center activities or for a relaxing review day at the end of a term. If you are a tutor or homeschooler, make games a regular feature in your lesson plans to build your students' math skills.

    So what are you waiting for? Clear off a table, grab a deck of cards, and let's play some math!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTabletop Academy Press
    Release dateApr 20, 2015
    ISBN9781892083258
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      Counting & Number Bonds - Denise Gaskins

      Math You Can Play Series

      Book One

      Counting & Number Bonds

      Math Games for Early Learners

      Preschool to Second Grade

      Denise Gaskins

      Copyright © 2015 Denise Gaskins

      Ebook Version 1.61

      All rights reserved.

      Tabletop Academy Press

      tabletopacademy.net

      Readers Love Denise’s Playful Math Books

      "These games are great for using and practicing maths skills in a context in which there is some real motivation to do so. I love how they provide opportunities to explore a wide variety of approaches, including number bonds and logical thinking.

      My children are always pleased, even excited, when I suggest one of these games. Sometimes they even ask to play them unprompted!

      —Miranda Jubb, online reader review

      It revolutionized our homeschool this year.

      —Caitlin Fitzpatrick Curley, My-Little-Poppies.com

      "I have played several of these games with my son, and each one was met with delight on his part and the sharing of delightful conversation about numbers and thinking between us.

      "I love what Gaskins has to say about working with your children as opposed to simply assigning them work to do. This sums up the philosophy that I try to keep forefront in our home.

      Highly, highly recommended.

      —Amy, Hope Is the Word blog

      Wonderful games for elementary students. The author includes a link for printable game boards, ensuring that I don't spend more time making games than playing them. Variations for each game = SO many ways to explore numbers. You will love this book.

      —Marisa, online reader review

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      Want to help your kids learn math? Join my free newsletter for monthly (well, most months) activity ideas. And you’ll be among the first to hear about new books, revisions, and sales or other promotions.

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      Contents

      Title Page

      Sample Game: Nine Cards

      Preface to the Math You Can Play Series

      Section I: A Strategy for Learning

      Introduction: How to Use This Book

      Chapter 1: Gather Your Game Supplies

      Section II: Counting & Number Bond Games

      Chapter 2: Early Counting

      Chapter 3: Childhood Classics

      Chapter 4: Number Bonds

      Chapter 5: Bigger Numbers

      Section III: Playing to Learn Math

      Chapter 6: Diagnosis: Workbook Syndrome

      Conclusion: Master the Math Facts

      Section IV: Resources and References

      About the Author

      Game-Playing Basics, From Set-Up to Endgame

      A Few of My Favorite Resources

      Quotes and Reference Links

      Copyright and Credits

      Sample Game: Nine Cards

      Math Concepts: addition, number bonds for ten.

      Players: two or more.

      Equipment: one deck of math cards.

      How to Play

      The first player shuffles the deck and then turns up the top nine cards, placing them face up in a 3 × 3 array: three rows with three cards in each row. The player captures (removes and keeps) any tens and any pairs of cards that sum to ten, then passes the deck to the next player.

      Each player in turn deals out enough cards to fill in the empty spots in the array — or, if there are no empty spots to fill, the player covers all nine cards with new ones. Then capture any tens and any pairs that make ten, and pass the deck on.

      The game ends when the deck is gone or when there are not enough cards left to fill in the holes in the array. Whoever has collected the most cards wins the game.

      [Picture below] Claim the ten and the pairs of cards that add up to ten. Do not take longer sums, like 5 + 2 + 3.

      Variation

      Concentration (Memory): Lay all the cards out face down on the table in a single layer with no overlaps. On your turn, flip two cards up. If you find a ten or a number bond, take it. If not, leave the cards showing long enough that all the players can see what they are. Then turn them face down before the next player’s turn.

      History

      Tens Concentration has always been one of my favorite math games. The face-up Nine Cards version comes from Constance Kamii’s Young Children Continue to Reinvent Arithmetic.

      Preface to the Math You Can Play Series

      The playful, puzzle-solving side of math has always attracted me. In elementary school, calculations were a tedious chore, but word problems provided the opportunity to try out my deductive powers. High school algebra and geometry were exercises in logical reasoning, and college physics was one story problem after another—great fun!

      As my children grew, I wanted to share this sort of mathematical play with them, but the mundane busyness of everyday life kept pushing aside my good intentions. Determined to make it happen, I found a way to defeat procrastination: invite friends to bring their kids over for a math playdate. We grappled with problems, solved puzzles, and shared games. Skeptical at first, the kids soon looked forward to math club. When that gang grew up and moved on, their younger siblings came to play, and others after them. Sometimes we met weekly, sometimes monthly or just off and on. At our house, at the library, in the park — more than twenty years of playing math with kids.

      Now I’ve gathered our favorite math club games into these Math You Can Play books. They are simple to learn, easy to set up, and quick to play, so even the busiest parents can build their children’s mental math skills and promote logical thinking.

      I hope you enjoy these games as much as we have. If you have any questions, I would love to hear from you.

      —Denise Gaskins

      LetsPlayMath@gmail.com

      Section I

      A Strategy for Learning

      Introduction: How to Use This Book

      Chapter 1: Gather Your Game Supplies

      Introduction

      How to Use This Book

      There should be no element of slavery in learning. Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children’s lessons take the form of play.

      —Plato

      If a perfect teacher developed the ideal teaching strategy, what would it be like?

      • An ideal teaching strategy would have to be flexible, working in a variety of situations with students of all ages.

      • It would promote true understanding and reasoning skills, not mere regurgitation of facts.

      • It would prepare children to learn on their own.

      • Surely the ideal teaching strategy would be enjoyable, perhaps even so much fun that the students don’t realize they are learning.

      • And it would be simple enough that imperfect teachers could use it, too.

      This is idle speculation, of course. There is no ideal teaching strategy that works with every student in every subject. But for math, at least, there is a wonderful way to stimulate our children’s number skills and encourage them to think: we can play games.

      Math games

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