Customer Reviews

Instant File-Folder Games for Math (Grades 1-3)

5 star:		(1)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(0)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

I have made and used most of the games in the book and they are terrific. They are great for center activities and to reinforce prior learning experiences. They are developmentally appropriate for grades 1-3 and I have used them with great success with 6-8-year olds. They are also fun for the children to help color and make. Great investment for the classroom or homeschool stiuations!

I am an LD Resource teacher in an elementary school and this is a great resource for reinforcing basic math skills. Students enjoy playing the games and are practicing their skills, as well. It is also nice because you don't spend a lot of money for some great games.

I ordered this book for my daughter to help with her computational skills. She loves the games in the book and is learning because of the fun.

The games are easy to photocopy and put together, and easy to store in their file folders. This book was just what I was looking for.

The book is creative and fun and my students will enjoy it. However, I assumed the pages were printed in color and they are not. They are all black and white so I am having to color them all myself in order to laminate them and get the ready for school.

I bought these "instant" file folder games for my autistic son thinking they were truly "instant". However, to my major disappointment, the pages are black and white with the "suggestion' that you color them in with your students or children. It would be a TON of work to do that and in black and white the games to not hold his interest. Waste of money. I have found other truly 'instant" file folder games that are precolored in, but they still require cutting and laminating, which can be very expensive. Don't buy this product.

This may not be fair, as I did not go through all the activities, but the emphasis on low level skills in most of the games tells the whole picture. Yes, playing these games beats doing endless worksheets mindlessly, but to what end? As research has shown (read Children and Number by Martin Hughes), one of the biggest problems faced by beginning learners is the transit from their concrete experience of maths to the abstract knowledge. In other words, while most children are equipped with fundamental math skills when they enter schools, they have difficulties going beyond concrete experiences.

My reasons for not giving this book more stars are: 1)it fails to make connections between concrete experience and symbolic representations; 2)it overemphasizes on basic skills; 3)the games are not really fun and creative; 4)they are not really effective in improving math skills. 5 take away 4, so there you have it!