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Arithmetic Enrichment Activities for Elementary School Children
Arithmetic Enrichment Activities for Elementary School Children Author:Joseph Crescimbeni Here's a wonderful new way you can "lure" your pupils into an avid interest in arithmetic...fascinate, excite, and intrigue them...ignite a desire to learn in pupils hitherto uninterested...turn ordinary lessons and recreation into eagerly-awaited, super-charged adventure! All this and more is yours in Arithmetic Enrichment Activities for Elemen... more »tary School Children! What makes this book so special is that with it you'll be able to arrange something new and exciting every day in the school year! For here is an inexhaustible supply of arithmetic activities--for K through 6--that spark your pupils' interest, hold it, and make the learning process as pleasant as it is easy, as thousands of children are discovering with delight! But these activities provide a lot more than mere fun--more even than a sound foundation in basic operations...by making arithmetic a successful, pleasurable experience from the very first, they whet your pupils' enthusiasm--and make your job that much easier! Thus, without delay you can develop their self-confidence, self-reliance, challenge the imagination and reasoning powers of the gifted student, give remedial help to the slower student--and guide your pupils to new-found pleasure and personal success! In one giant volume you get scores of activities for each grade that clearly illustrate addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions for your pupils with easy-to-understand activities...geared to help you reach all your pupils at their varied learning levels...correlated with all other classroom and outdoor activities! Here are arithmetic teaching aids your pupils will take to like ice cream...aids that teach recognition of numerals, numbers they have heard, numbers they have used, pennies they have spent...activities that teach the order of numbers, amounts (simple adding from 1 to 9), recognition of amounts added or taken away, counting silently...activities that teach the concept of one-half and other fractions, same number but increased value, same value but different components...perceptivity (such as that involved in perceiving that two 4s could make 8 or 44 or several haystacks one large one)...counting by 5s, 7s, and other number groups, mental multiplication and division...estimating size or quantity...and much more! Packed with helpful teaching aids, this book explains all activities in everyday English so you can use them quickly...clearly illustrates with scores of superb pictures and diagrams...assures prompt follow-through and completion since pupils can perform each activity with a minimum of instruction! Your pupils' response will be amazing and you'll find yourself with a reputation for conducting top-level arithmetic activities!« less