After a series of frustrating delays, Denise Gaskins’s upper-elementary Math You Can Play games book has finally hit the online bookstores.
Multiplication & Fractions features 25 kid-tested games, offering a variety of challenges for school-age students. Children master several math models that provide a sturdy foundation for understanding multiplication and fractions. The games feature times table facts and more advanced concepts such as division, fractions, decimals, and multistep mental math.
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170 pages, ebook: $5.99, paperback: $17.99.
It starts with models that are visual explanations of the concepts. Gaskins also breaks learning these concepts into comfortable steps that emphasize patterns and relationships, the real ideas that are behind properly understanding multiplication and fractions (indeed, math generally).
The sequence of games in each section starts by building familiarity and then fluency (speed) to solidify all of that work.— Joshua Greene
Multiplication & Fractions Math Games from Denise Gaskins (a review)
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