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From Lena, a professional tutor in Marietta:
My student liked the game, but I made the fatal mistake
of going 10 rounds with a 4 year old! That’s way too
long!
I was enjoying myself so much, I forgot about young
attention spans! … But on Friday I brought the game but
didn’t get a chance to play it with her, and she was sad
when I left saying “We forgot to play the game!”
So that’s a great sign.
From Kimberly, a home school mom of four
in Buford:
As a home school Mom with children
ages 3, 5, 6 and 9, I have found these Math games to be
very helpful. It is very true that huge numbers of
people, young and old alike, do not know their math
facts from 1-10 very well and indeed still count on
their fingers!
We've been using these games,
mostly with my older two children, for about a year and
a-half. My 9 year old definitely knows his facts well
and this has given him a wonderful springboard from
which to learn multiplication and division, fractions,
placement values, etc. My 6 year can now work with
numbers adding up to 10 without using her fingers at
all.
She can also "find the missing number" in simple
equations
such as 10 = 8 + __ , or 3 + __ = 10.
I must say, though, that my
favorite benefit of these games so far is with my 5 year
old. When he began using the games (and he only played
them maybe 6 times in the last year and a half) , he did
not know his number symbols. I had tried flash cards
with him to no avail. He is not a visual learner only,
like alot of people are. By using the games and
employing tactile, auditory and visual altogether, he
not only learned his symbols up to 10, but now walks
around saying things like, "Hey, Mom, is four and four
eight? Is five and five ten? Is two and three five?"
Pretty awesome, I think!!
These games are fun! Roll the
dice and compete to see who gets the most the most! My
daughter loves the Bingo games. Both of my older ones
love to play the dice that have the largest numbers on
them and add on more and more dice to make the numbers
larger and larger, therefore learning to add three and
four numbers!
The possibilities with all of the
die, chips, Bingo cards, and games are endless...and my
kids love making up their own games, thus learning even
more. We can "do our math" for the day by playing these
games. They are learning without the tedium and
boredom often accompanied in more traditional settings.
I highly recommend these games.
Virginia W. Strawderman, Ph.D.
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