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Math Games: 180 Reproducible Activities to Motivate, Excite, and Challenge Students, Grades 6-12

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I like this book and highly recommend anything by the Muschla's. But this is a book of worksheets, not games. It does contain entertaining and challenging worksheets that are useful in the classroom. I more often will use their Algebra Teacher's Activity Kit or the Geometry Teacher's Activity Kit.

These are not "games" like you might imagine. They are simply interesting math problems. It's a great resource!

While the title is misleading, I found this book a good way to get additional practice in my middle school math classes. The worksheets offer some "puzzle" type problems and "real world" word problems. Students like the worksheets and the format of them doesn't make it feel like everything is on top of each other like worksheets often do.

A good supplement to any classroom

Great activities to review skills and motivate students. Easily implemented into the daily curriculum.

I purchased for my girlfriend during her student teaching. She was able to use alot of the information in this book to bring the fun back to math. It helped her motivate the students.

I certainly read enough reviews to know I was not ordering a book of math games, but I thought it would be a book of interesting, motivating puzzles and challenges. There are a few of those in that book, but for the most part it is simply a book of practice worksheets on a variety of topics. Some of the worksheets have interesting twists, and a few more have an answer bank that will reveal an acrostic such as "All your answers are correct," but too often a worksheet is simply a list of problems to solve.

I would call none of these worksheets games, and less than a third of them puzzles.

As previous reviewers have noted, this is a book of worksheets, not games. Those hoping for math games should look elsewhere, such as Family Math : The Middle School Years, Algebraic Reasoning and Number Sense. That being said, this is a good book to use for extra practice and/or review of skills. It is well organized, so it is easy to find a worksheet on, for instance, the order of operations. I use it frequently in my tutoring of jr. high and high school students, a group for which it is often difficult to find materials.

This book contain a wealth of resources to get students involved in the learning process. The games are fun and fast so they fit within the time frame of the classroom learning environment.