The Birth of A Magical Stone Monkey

Dr. Lorna Ayton · Dr. David Whitebread · Dr. Kit Cheung

CAMathories Company

About this ebook

CAMathories™ The Birth of A Magical Stone Monkey was adapted from ‘The Journey to the West’. Colorful pictures, easy to read comic strips, exciting epic adventures with the magical stone monkey, fun mathematics games for children to play, with answers and abundant parents’ teaching notes. All games and teaching notes are designed and written by mathematician, Dr. Lorna Ayton, and reviewed by early learning cognitive developmental psychologist, Dr. David Whitebread, both from the University of Cambridge. ‘All-in-one’ fantastic features!

There are 8 mathematics games and puzzles in the magical stone monkey's early adventures. They involve the children in counting numbers of different objects on the mountain, recognizing different shapes, using numbers that are multiples of 2 to reach the top of the mountain, allocating fruits to monkeys equally and formulating a correct equation.

All CAMathories™ books and apps are fun stories and games designed and tested by renowned educational researchers, mathematicians, and scientists from the University of Cambridge to teach young children mathematics. Each CAMathories™ book and app also contains a series of teaching notes to help parents to teach their children mathematics based on the content of the games as well as real-life situations. We wish you happy learning and CAMathoring! 

Please visit our website, www.camathories.com to learn more about the CAMathories™ education team. 

Ratings and reviews

Reading this book is such a fun & exciting way to learn. Child and parent have a fun interactive experience while reading about an adventurous monkey, who just happens to be based on a centuries old Chinese folk tale. Doing the activities while reading immerses you in the story. Can't wait for more books in this series. Highly recommended!

monkeys are so good

About the author

Dr. Ayton spends half of her time teaching A-Level students at a private high school in Cambridge and the other half of her time in the University of Cambridge Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, where she uses mathematical modelling to develop new technologies to reduce aircraft noise. Dr. Ayton was admitted to Churchill College, University of Cambridge, in 2007 to study B.A. Mathematics (graduated with First Class Honors), followed by Part III Mathematics (graduated with Distinction), and then for a Ph.D. in Mathematics which she completed in 2014. Dr. Ayton's Ph.D. thesis: "Asymptotic Approximations for the Sound Generated by Aerofoils in Unsteady Subsonic Flows" is awarded "Outstanding Thesis Prize" by Springer. Dr. Ayton ensures that fundamental mathematics concepts are well applied in the games and learning mathematics can be fun and rewarding. Dr. Ayton designs and reviews games for CAMathories™.

 

Dr. Whitebread, had been the Acting Director (External Relations), Centre for Research on Play in Education, Development and Learning (PEDAL), in the Faculty of Education, University of Cambridge. Dr. Whitebread has more than 30 years of research experience in children learning through play. He is one of the founding members of the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge. Dr. David Whitebread designs and reviews games for CAMathories™ .