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Let's Play Math Sampler: 10 Family-Favorite Games for Learning Math Through Play

"Do you want your children to enjoy learning math?

Teach them how to play!

In excerpts from author Denise Gaskins's most popular books, the Let's Play Math Sampler features ten kid-tested games covering math concepts from counting to prealgebra.

Math games meet children each at their own level. The child who sits at the head of the class can solidify skills. The child who lags behind grade level can build fluency and gain confidence. And both will learn something even more important — that hard mental effort can be fun.

So pick up a copy of the Let's Play Math Sampler today and make math a playful family adventure."

Let's Play Math: How Families Can Learn Math Together—and Enjoy It

Denise Gaskins

Transform your child’s experience of math!

Even if you struggled with mathematics in school, you can help your children enjoy learning and prepare them for academic success.

Author Denise Gaskins makes it easy with this mixture of math games, low-prep project ideas, and inspiring coffee-chat advice from a veteran homeschooling mother of five. Filled with stories and illustrations, Let's Play Math offers a practical, activity-filled exploration of what it means to learn math as a family.

Drawing on more than thirty years' teaching experience, Gaskins provides helpful tips for parents with kids from preschool to high school, whether your children learn at home or attend a traditional classroom.

Sections include:

•    How to Understand Math: Introduce your children to the thrill of conquering a challenge. Build deep understanding by thinking, playing, and asking questions like a mathematician.

•    Playful Problem Solving: Awaken your children’s minds to the beauty and wonder of mathematics. Discover the social side of math, and learn games for players of all ages.

•    Math with Living Books: See how mathematical ideas ebb and flow through the centuries with this brief tour through history. Can your kids solve puzzles from China, India, or Ancient Egypt?

•    Let’s Get Practical: Fit math into your family’s daily life, help your children develop mental calculation skills, and find out what to try when your child struggles.

•    Resources and References: With so many library books and Internet sites, you’ll never run out of playful mathematical adventures.

All parents and teachers share one goal: we want our children to understand and be able to use math. Your children will gain a strong foundation when you approach math as a family game, playing with ideas.

Don’t let your children suffer from the epidemic of math anxiety. Grab a copy of Let’s Play Math, and start enjoying math today.

70+ Things to Do with a Hundred Chart: Number, Shape, and Logic Activities from Preschool to Middle School

Denise Gaskins

Are you looking for creative ways to help your child learn math?

You don’t need a special workbook, teacher’s manual, or lesson plans. All you need is an inquiring mind and something interesting to think about.

Author Denise Gaskins guides you through activities from preschool to middle school.

•   Whole numbers, fractions, decimals, and percents.

•   Patterns, shapes, and geometric design.

•   Logical thinking, math debates, and strategy games.

And Denise makes it easy, with step-by-step instructions so you and your child can explore math together.

70+ Things to Do with a Hundred Chart will launch your family on a voyage of mathematical discovery. Order your copy today.

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70+ Things to Do with a Hundred Chart is part of the Playful Math Singles series from Tabletop Academy Press. These short, topical books feature clear explanations and ready-to-play activities.

Math You Can Play Combo: Number Games for Young Learners

Denise Gaskins

Math Your Kids WANT to Do.

You’ll love these math games because they give your child a strong foundation for mathematical success.

By playing these games, you strengthen your child’s intuitive understanding of numbers and build problem-solving strategies. Mastering a math game can be hard work. But kids do it willingly because it’s fun.

Math You Can Play Combo features two books in one, with 42 kid-tested games that offer a variety of challenges for preschool and school-age 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.

•    Numbers to One Hundred: Develop mental math skills for working with larger numbers. Practice using place value, addition, and subtraction.

•    Mixed Operations: Give mental muscles a workout with games that require number skills and logical thinking.

•    Logic and Probability: Logic games sharpen inductive and deductive thinking skills, while games of chance build an intuition for probability.

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!

Word Problems from Literature: An Introduction to Bar Model Diagrams

Denise Gaskins

You can help prevent math anxiety by giving your children the mental tools they need to conquer story problems.

Young children expect to look at a word problem and instantly see the answer. But as they get older, their textbook math problems also grow in difficulty, so this solution-by-intuitive-leap becomes impossible. Too often the frustrated child concludes, “I’m just not good at math.”

But with practice, any student can learn to master word problems.

Word Problems from Literature features math puzzles for elementary and middle school students from classic books such as Mr. Popper's Penguins and The Hobbit. Denise Gaskins demonstrates step by step how to use the problem-solving tool of bar model diagrams, a type of pictorial algebra. For children who are used to playing with Legos or other blocks — or with computer games like Minecraft — this approach reveals the underlying structure of a math word problem. Students can make sense of how each quantity in the story relates to the others and see a path to the solution.

And when you finish the puzzles in this book, Denise shows you how to create your own word problems from literature, based in your children’s favorite story worlds.

Prepare your child for mathematical success. Order your copy of Word Problems from Literature today.

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If you’re using these word problems with your children, check out the companion Word Problems from Literature Student Workbook.

Multiplication & Fractions: Math Games for Tough Topics

Denise Gaskins

Rescue your child from math phobia — by playing games!

You’ll love these math games because they give your child a sturdy foundation for understanding multiplication and fractions.

Help your child master the times tables and build mental math skills. Play with advanced concepts such as division, fractions, decimals, and multi-step calculations.

Multiplication & Fractions features 25 kid-tested games, offering a variety of challenges for upper-elementary and middle school students. Chapters include:

•   Mathematical Models: Learn to picture multiplication and fractions in a way that supports your child’s comprehension.

•   Conquer the Times Tables: Enjoy practicing the math facts until correct answers become automatic.

•   Mixed Operations: Give mental muscles a workout with games that require number skills and logical thinking.

•   Fractions and Decimals: Master equivalent fractions, work with decimal place value, and multiply fractions and decimal numbers.

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!

Addition & Subtraction: Math Games for Elementary Students

Denise Gaskins

Prevent math anxiety — by playing games!

You’ll love these math games because they give your child a sturdy foundation for understanding addition and subtraction.

Help your child learn mental flexibility by playing with numbers, from basic math facts to the hundreds and thousands. Logic games build strategic thinking skills, and dice games give students hands-on experience with probability.

Addition & Subtraction features 23 kid-tested games, offering a variety of challenges for elementary-age students. Chapters include:

•    Tens and Teens: Master the concept of number bonds — the relationship between a whole number and the parts that combine to make it — and build a logical foundation for future math.

•    Numbers to One Hundred: Develop mental math skills for working with larger numbers. Practice using place value, addition, and subtraction.

•    Mixed Operations: Give mental muscles a workout with games that require number skills and logical thinking.

•    Logic and Probability: Logic games sharpen inductive and deductive thinking skills, while games of chance build an intuition for probability.

Math games protect your child from math phobia. 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!

Counting & Number Bonds: Math Games for Early Learners

Denise Gaskins

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!