Denise Gaskins’s Playful Math Singles from Tabletop Academy Press will be short, topical books featuring clear explanations and ready-to-play activities.
We hope to get 2-3 of the titles published this year. Watch for them at your favorite online bookstore.
With 170 roomy pages, each book gives you plenty of space to record memories, plan projects, and keep track of tasks. The dot grid makes it easy to draw graphs or diagrams. Take notes, jot down ideas, copy your favorite quotations, or doodle to your heart’s content.
Perfect for bullet journaling or for use as a commonplace book, the Dot Grid Journals nurture creative mathematical thinking.
The ebook edition features all 124 quotations (31 from each journal) about mathematics, education, and problem solving. Read through for your own pleasure, post them by your workspace, or use them as writing prompts for yourself or your students.
Yes, all of the ebooks are the same, so there’s no point in buying more than one. And at Amazon, if you buy a paperback journal, you can download the companion ebook for free!
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‘Tis the season for nasty storms. An icy blast has turned our road into a sheet of glass for the second night in a row. Break out the hot chocolate, and settle in, ’cause Baby it’s cold outside!
If you’re snowed (or iced) in with bored kids, here’s a holiday gift from us to you. Denise Gaskins created these coloring pages for her co-op math kids this semester, but now we’ve collected them into a 24-page 42-page PDF booklet for your family to enjoy.
Happy Christmas!
If you enjoy fantasy fiction, check out Teresa Gaskins’ serialized novel Banished over at her Kitten’s Purring blog. She’s been publishing one chapter every week since early September, so there’s plenty of story to sink your teeth into.
All Christopher Fredrico wanted was to be a peaceful scholar who could spend a lot of time with his friends. Now, falsely accused of stealing a magical artifact, he is forced to leave the only home he knows.
But as he and his friends travel towards the coast, they find a riddle that may save a kingdom — or cost them their lives.
Banished: The Riddled Stone Book One by homeschooled teen author Teresa Gaskins, is being serialized freely on her website at the pace of one chapter per week. The full novel is available in ebook or paperback format on Amazon, Kobo, iBooks, Barnes & Noble, and other online retailers.
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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.
Click here to find Multiplication & Fractions at your favorite bookstore.
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)
We’re one step closer to getting Denise’s long-awaited Multiplication & Fraction Games book out — she finished the printables file! At least, we hope she’s finished. Sometimes it seems like whack-a-typo never ends…
Check out the new Printables files
The Multiplication & Fractions ebook will come out sometime in November, and the paperback should follow in time for Christmas. If you’re interested, my newsletter subscribers will get a special introductory sale price whenever the book is published. Join now!
How Can a Knight Fight Magic?
Trained by the greatest knight in North Raec, Sir Arnold Fredrico dreamed of valiant deeds. Save the damsel. Serve the king.
Dreams change. Now the land teeters at the brink of war. As a fugitive with a price on his head, Arnold struggles to protect his friends.
But his enemy wields more power than the young knight can imagine.
238 pages, ebook: $3.99, paperback: $14.99.
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Betrayed, by Teresa Gaskins, really exceeded my expectations. The setting is a world of “light” magic. Magic is rare, constrained, and follows a sort of logic, which may or not be fully understood by the people in the world. I like the way in which this sets up plot connections and forces things to happen for a reason, rather than deus ex machina or authorial patronus.
There are some obvious protagonists and some obvious villains, but Gaskins creates a nice ambiguity around several of the key characters. The plot itself is interesting and engaging with multiple levels of motivation that drive it along. Mainly, this is a group-of-friends quest story that is fun and well told.
I think the appropriate age range for Betrayed is from adult down to middle school. While there is nothing specifically inappropriate for younger children, readers need a moderate level of maturity to manage the multiple plots and number of characters.
— Phanwadee, Amazon.com reviewer
The combined edition of Math You Can Play has been an Amazon exclusive ebook for several months. But the multiplication and fractions game book has been delayed at the editor’s. So in Denise’s unexpected free time, she dug into InDesign and put together a print edition. Check it out!
The 42 kid-tested games are simple to learn, quick to play, and require minimal preparation. Young children can play with counting and number recognition, explore place value, build number sense, and begin learning the basics of addition. Older students can develop mental flexibility by playing with numbers, from basic math facts to the hundreds and beyond.
“Although the cover says games for young learners, the beauty of this book is that most of the games can easily be scaled up for older kids, teens, and even adults. My youngest is four and my oldest is 14, and I will be pulling games for all of them out of this book!
“I appreciate that most of the games are low floor, high ceiling – easy for a child to access, but can be played at a higher level through strategy or slight alterations to the rules. These are not drills disguised as games, but activities that require problem solving and strategy as well as calculation.
“If you are a homeschooler, you need this book. If you are a parent of a reluctant math learner, you need this book. If your family enjoys games played with easy materials such as playing cards, you need this book. Yes, you need this book!”
If you read ebooks, check out this great sale at Smashwords. Through the end of July, all our Tabletop Academy Press ebooks are 25% off — and Banished (The Riddled Stone, Book One) is free!
Just remember to enter the discount code (SFREE for Banished, and SSW25 for all the others) at checkout.
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