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Much More Than Counting: More Whole Math Activities for Preschool and Kindergarten

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I am using this book to help introduce preschool math concepts to my two at home. It has great ideas that are easily adaptable so that you can use items around the house. The authors provide lots of activities that help introduce concepts like patterning, one to one correspondance, addition and subtraction through play. They also provide a list of what to look for as the child plays and questions to get the child thinking about math. This is the best preschool math resource I have found thus far. Just reading through it helps provide the frame of mind to recognize opportunities to teach math to this age group. I am extremely pleased!

This book is an excellent source of information if you have preschool age children in your house or class. I am studing to be an early childhood education teacher and have used this book several times to get ideas for lesson plans.

I learned so many ideas from this book. It really is a neat and great book.I have shared with my fellow employees and we all love it and use it often for our classrooms.cool book

The book "Much more than counting" - is in fact NOT much more than counting.

It is another pseudo pedagocial workbook that preys on parents' fears that they might miss out on some important developmental window for their kids. But this book is utterly unnecessary. It just contains simple ideas for counting and measuring and manages to blow them up into immensely elaborate project pieces which require moms and grandparents to wield glue and scissors and create "cute" contraptions before you even can get started.
Every pre-schooler can learn more and better if you let them count buttons and coins for a while. And it is so easy to invent little stories like: "Each bird eats two seeds. And then their stomachs are full. So there are three birds sitting on the tree behind our house. How many seeds will you have to put out on our patio that all of them can eat to their heart's content?"

Every parent with average education will have about 20 x the creativity of this book. Save the money.