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Beyond Facts & Flashcards: Exploring Math with Your Kids | 
| Author: Jan Mokros
Publisher: Heinemann
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 709812
Media: Paperback
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Pages: 144
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.4 x 0.3
ISBN: 0435083759
Dewey Decimal Number: 649.68
EAN: 9780435083755
ASIN: 0435083759
Publication Date: February 26, 1996
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Product Description
The activities and suggested questions for parents to pose will surely heighten children's awareness of mathematics in daily living. It will also help parents experience important mathematics in a way that they can appreciate and thus help support changes in the current school curriculum.
- Teaching Children Mathematics Most parents know that the most important thing they can do to helptheir kids learn to read is to read with them. But what's the mathematicalequivalent to reading aloud? Up until now, parents have had few modelsfor helping their children understand math. And most existing models arelimited to repetitive workbooks and flashcards. In Beyond Facts & Flashcards, Jan Mokros shows parents howto transform the family's involvement in mathematics to help children seethe big picture. The book provides answers to questions such as: - What mathematical skills should children be developing now to equipthem for the future?
- How can parents help children develop these skills?
- How can parents and teachers work together to ensure that childrenare doing more than a narrowly-defined study of "bookkeeping"math?
Beyond Facts & Flashcards not only presents lots of games and activities that parents and their children can play together, it also describes how the activities relate to mathematics, what's reasonable to expect a child to understand, and how to ask questions that elicit and support children's learning. This is an excellent resource to recommend to parents of primary and elementary students.
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Just a Spoonful of Sugar May 6, 2000
20 out of 21 found this review helpful
This engaging book is a welcome source of inspiration for parents seeking to promote "numeracy" or "math literacy" in their children. The author makes a persuasive case for shifting our emphasis in math education from the memorization of definitions and procedures to hands-on exploration of mathematical concepts through solving problems that are meaningful to children. The heart of the book is the suggestions for parents to "do math" with their children through an approach analogous to that described in the now-widely accepted literature on the benefits of parents reading to children. The author suggests specific activities for exploring math as a family, broken down by elementary school grade level. Some of the recommended activities, such as ways to adapt board games to explore different concepts, are appealing and easily implemented. Others are not. In her--often charming and infectious--missionary zeal for her subject, Mokros underestimates just how much like medicine graphing, charting, mapping and planning activities can be to the unwashed, semi-innumerate masses among which I count myself. For non-math lovers, there is no way that snuggling up to do math together is going to compete with a bedtime story. Many of the activities recommended for kindergartners were too sophisticated. Presumably, a 5-year-old who can handle these activities is being reared by parents who already have nurtured their young one's math literacy and do not need this book. For the rest of us, there is still much of value in this book and the author's upbeat style does make the math-medicine go down in a slightly more delightful way.
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