Math lab for kids : fun, hands-on activities for learning with shapes, puzzles, and games
Rapoport, Rebecca2017
Book
This book provides 52 fun labs to teach children basic math concepts through activities and games. This book allows you to motivate unenthusiastic math students in an environment through creativity and understanding that is not always possible in a school setting. Math Lab for Kids provides a fun, engaging, and colorful approach to math games, puzzles, and activities for kids from first through fifth grade. Each chapter introduces a category of activities and interesting math-related puzzles and games to explore. Kids will learn math concepts like probability and geometry along the way. All activity materials can be found right around you house!
Main title:
Math lab for kids : fun, hands-on activities for learning with shapes, puzzles, and games / Rebecca Rapoport and J. Yoder.
Author:
Rapoport, Rebecca, authorYoder, J., 1975-, author
Imprint:
Beverly, MA : Quarry Books, 2017.©2017.
Collation:
144 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Includes index.
Audience:
Interest age level: Ages 7-10.
Contents:
Geometry: learning about shapes: prisms and pyramids and Platonic solids, oh my! -- Topology: mind-bending shapes: learn about squeezable, squishable shapes and surfaces -- Coloring maps like a mathematician: using the fewest number of colors possible, fill in a map so adjacent shapes are different -- Stitching curves: learn to create curves using only straight lines -- Fantastic fractals: a fractal is a shape that is similar to itself no matter how far you zoom in on one particular part -- Terrific tangrams: solve ancient Chinese puzzles by making different shapes from the same seven pieces -- Toothpick puzzles: create and solve brainteasers using patterns of toothpicks -- The game of Nim: learn the game of Nim and develop a strategy to win every time -- Graph theory: making connections: explore how points and edges are interconnected.
ISBN:
9781631592522 (paperback)
Dewey class:
510.78510.76
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
340053