Number Sense and Nonsense: Games, Puzzles, and Problems for Building Creative Math Confidence

Description

Age range 8 + More than eighty games and activities in this newly updated edition help kids think critically about math instead of just memorising rules. Group and individual games teach fun, useful ways to manipulate odd and even numbers, prime and composite numbers, common and decimal fractions, and factors, divisors, and multiples of numbers. Counting, calculating, and writing numbers in languages from other cultures provide more practice in understanding how numbers work. Riddles, puzzles, number tricks, and calculator games boost estimating and computation skills for every math student.

Claudia Zaslavsky has been a maths teacher and maths teacher's teacher since 1959 and was one of the first educators to emphasise multicultural perspectives in math. She is the author of 13 books and lives in New York City.

"Exceptionally well organized and presented." Midwest Book Review