Let's Have Fun With Shapes: Practise and Learn with Games and Activities by Mike Askew

Let's Have Fun With Shapes: Practise and Learn with Games and Activities by Mike Askew

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In this book young mathematicians will become familiar with shapes, symmetry, patterns and tanagrams by playing maths games. The bright appealing illustrations and clear instructions are easy to follow. The games are fun to play and will help kids develop skills in reasoning, and problem solving.

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Let's Have Fun With Shapes: Practise and Learn with Games and Activities by Mike Askew

In this book young mathematicians will become familiar with shapes including concepts such as symmetry, patterns and tanagrams by playing maths games. Children can play either on their own or with friends, parents or teachers. The bright appealing illustrations combined with clear numbered instructions make the games easy to follow and fun to play and will develop new skills and confidence in problem solving. The fun format will help dispell the myth that maths is boring.
Mike Askew is Distinguised Professor of Mathematics Education at the University of of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg having previously held Professorships at King's College University of London and Monash University Melbourne. He was director of the influential 'Effective Teachers of Numeracy in Primary Schools' and deputy director of the Leverhulme Numeracy Research Programme. He writes a regular column for Teach Primary Magazine. He was a founding director of BEAM education, a publishing house specialising in producing resources to support primary mathematics. Mike believes that Mathematical activity should be engaging and enjoyable for all children and that the majority of children can come to see themselves as mathematicians.
SKU Unavailable
ISBN 13 9781788560306
ISBN 10 1788560302
Title Let's Have Fun With Shapes: Practise and Learn with Games and Activities
Author Mike Askew
Series Go For It Maths! Key Stage One
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Ruby Tuesday Books Ltd
Year published 2018-07-31
Number of pages 32
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.