25 Super Cool Math Board Games: Easy-to-Play Reproducible Games that Teach Essential Math Skills, Grades 3-6 [Paperback]

Lorraine Hopping Egan (Author)

Book Description

Age Level: 8 and up | Grade Level: 3 and up

Get kids fired up about math with this big collection of super-cool reproducible board games that build key skills: multiplication, division, fractions, probability, estimation, mental math, and more! Each game is a snap to make and so easy to play. Add them to your classroom routine and watch those test scored soar! Content is correlated with the NCTM Standards. For use with Grades 3-6.

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About the Author

Lorraine Hopping Egan is a prolificeducational writer and game designer. She has written several books for Scholastic including Ready, Set, Roll! Number Cube Games, for Professional Books.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 8 and up
  
• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (July 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0590378724
• ISBN-13: 978-0590378727
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.4 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #22,161 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Lorraine Jean Hopping grew up in a small town in Michigan, went to a small college in Michigan (Kalamazoo College), and then began to dream big. At the age of 21, she moved to New York City to launch a career in publishing as a writer and editor.

Her mantra is "If you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten." In other words, Lorraine thrives on the new, the different, the unknowns in life.

A combination of curiosity and fear of boredom have led her into the worlds of magazines, books, radio, software, board games, toys, websites, and . . . what next? She has enthusiastically tackled an ever-expanding range of topics with special passions for languages, international cultures, science, math, and technology.

Today, Lorraine still dreams big as she creates out of a cozy home office in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Learn more about her and her game development company--Hopping Fun Creations--at lorrainejeanhopping.com.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

61 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Really great games to teach math, July 5, 2001

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This review is from: 25 Super Cool Math Board Games: Easy-to-Play Reproducible Games that Teach Essential Math Skills, Grades 3-6 (Paperback)

There's one game in this book that's worth the whole price--Skyscraper Runup, a kind of relay race for computation that students *love* to play. The Remainder Raccoon game is also a hit. The others are fun, too. I highly recommend the book. I've worn out my copy already!

20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great resource to teach math in a fun way., May 19, 2008

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Miriam Martinez Medina (Dallas, Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 25 Super Cool Math Board Games: Easy-to-Play Reproducible Games that Teach Essential Math Skills, Grades 3-6 (Paperback)

This book is a must for all teachers who struggle with making kids assimilate difficult concepts such as calculating equivalent fractions, geometry, measurement, probability and statistics, decimals, and mathematical operations ranging from addition all the way through divisions with remainder.

It contains black and white masters to photocopy in order to build your own board games. What I have done so far, is photocopy the games, color them and then have them laminated so that they can last longer. These board games are ideal for small group instruction or learning centers. Most of the games require not only the board and/or the dice, but a worksheet for the kids to color while they advance on the board, making the games even more engaging for the students.

The games are aimed at students between 3rd and 6th grades, and they all contain really attractive illustrations.

If you are looking for something fun to do with your kids meanwhile they are mastering mathematical reasoning, this book is a must for you!

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars 25 Super Cool Math Board Games, June 4, 2008

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C. Rogers "math guru" (Bethlehem, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: 25 Super Cool Math Board Games: Easy-to-Play Reproducible Games that Teach Essential Math Skills, Grades 3-6 (Paperback)

There are a lot of products similar to this one, but this is the best "Math Games" book that I have ever purchased. It has easy-to-understand instructions and games are matched to appropriate grade-level curriculum. Students really enjoy these games and have opportunities to learn from them by reflecting on the strategies they use, creating new games, and by attempting challenging tasks included in the book. If you are looking for a good Math games book, look no further.