Delightful Decimals and Perfect Percents: Games and Activities That Make Math Easy and Fun FROM THE PUBLISHER
Everything kids need to know to become masters mathematics
Teachers, parents and kids everywhere will love these great practical guides to the basic math subjects. Filled with fun and educational games and activities, Delightful Decimals and Perfect Percents and Groovy Geometry provide everything kids need to know about these sometimes challenging subjects. In each of these books, Lynette Long uses her unique style to help kids truly understand mathematical concepts as they play with everyday objects such as playing cards, candies, coins, and paper and pencil.
With Delightful Decimals and Perfect Percents, kids will learn to decipher the mysteries of decimals and percents. They'll learn how to read and write decimals, how to add and subtract, multiply and divide both decimals and percents, how to change decimals into fractions and percents, and much more! Once they've grasped the basics, they'll be ready to recognize a repeating decimal at a glance, play games like the fast-paced Dynamite Decimal Reduction, estimate percentages in their heads, understand currency exchange, and even figure out the tip after a family meal at a restaurant.
In Groovy Geometry, after a tour of the fundamental geometric concepts and definitions, kids will move on to master all of the geometry essentials, including drawing, measuring, and identifying the different kinds of angles, triangles, and quadrilaterals; using the Pythagorean theorem to find a hypotenuse; measuring the diameter, circumference, and area of a circle; and computing the volume of a cylinder. Along the way they'll learn to figure out the height of any object from its shadow, judge distances as the crow flies, estimate the area ofany space, and much more.
Designed to be fun for kids who are wary of math as well as those who excel at it, these two books can help anyone become a mathematics master.
FROM THE CRITICS
Children's Literature - Donna Freedman
"What good is math going to do me?" kids are known to groan. Plenty, as this book makes clear. Food costs, making change, sports-achievement figures, survey statistics, figuring a tip�all rely on the use of basic math principles. "If you want to...really understand the world you live in, you have to get to know decimals and percents," author Long writes. One of the best ways to make math meaningful is to give it a practical application, of course, and if the application is FUN, so much the better. Teachers can therefore use games like "Dynamite Decimal Reduction," "Overnight Delivery," "Multiplication War" and "Buckets of Change" to reinforce mathematical concepts. Long is the author of several children's math books, has taught math and is a professor whose specialty is mathematics education. This book will be a treasure to elementary school teachers, and to home-schooling parents. 2002, John Wiley & Sons,
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