More Than Counting

More than one hundred math activities for young children that incorporate early learning standards.

Filled with more math manipulatives, more grid games, and more path games. Over one hundred fun activities to encourage mathematical thinking in young children are included -- from cover.

Filled with unusual games and fun activities that have proven superior in facilitating children's construction of mathematical knowledge. (And in easing teaching anxiety about providing a solid math curriculum!) -- from cover.

"How Many? A Counting Book is a student book and accompanying teacher's guide that explore the essential mathematical ideas of units and place value."--

Rhyming text and illustrations introduce numbers one to ten, from one tangled weta to ten colourful geckos. Suggested level: junior.

Talking math with your child is fun and easy with this better approach to counting! Written by a math educator, this innovative book encourages critical thinking and sparks memorable mathematical conversations. You and your child decide what to count on each page. You have many choices, and the longer you look, the more possibilities you'll notice. There are no wrong answers in this book. As long as you're talking about what you see, think, and wonder, you're talking math!

One crocodile with many sharp teeth, two snake-necked turtles swimming in a billabong, three water goannas soaking up the sun... Learn to count with the animals of Australia's West Arnhem Land and the traditional art of indigenous Kunwinjku culture.

Text and illustrations of the familiar O-shaped cereal help the reader count to ten and add groups of ten. On board pages.