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Learning Resources Let's Tackle Math Patterning and Sequencing Set

Product Description
Lets Tackle Math! Patterning and Sequencing - Make sorting, patterning and counting as much fun for students as playing in their own backyards. This 252-piece counter set features 108 colorful bugs, 72 worms and 72 frogs to sort by color, shape and size. Also includes a 25-page, spiralbound, stand-up activity book filled with 48 engaging, self-checking activities; sorting tray and sturdy tackle box for easy storage. For grades PreK and up. -

Checkbook with Calculator

From the Manufacturer
It's fun to play like you're a grown up! Kids fill out pretend checks, make payments and calculate their balances as they learn about check writing. Calculator is battery-powered, and checks are actual size for even more realistic play. Includes 25 checks, check register, pen, calculator, deposit slips and instruction card

Cuisenaire Rods Wood Introductory Set 

Product Description
Detailed Description Cuisenaire Rods spark children's interest in mathematics through hands-on investigation and visual confirmation of math concepts. Contains 74 rods (enough for two students working together), tray with lid and Activity Guide. Set includes: 22 white, 12 red, 10 light green, six purple, and four each of the yellow, dark green, black, brown, blue, and orange rods. Use with 2-3 students. Grade: K-8 Publisher: Learning Resources

Dino Math Tracks Game

Amazon Review
The Dino Math Tracks game (winner of several prestigious awards, including an Oppenheim Toy Portfolio Gold Seal) is a race around the rainbow with a pack of pintsize, prehistoric pals. An unusual spin on a typical roll-the-dice-and-move game, it spotlights the mathematical concept of place value and gives kids reinforcement in what makes our base-10 number system tick. Each player is allotted one dinosaur for each of the four tracks (the tracks are labeled 1s, 10s, 100s, and 1000s). To play, a player rolls four dice to create a 4-digit number and then moves his or her prehistoric posse to the appropriate 1s, 10s, 100s, and 1000s places. Problem-solving strategies are honed as players scurry to get all four miniature mammoths or tiny triceratops into the dino haven, ahead of the other players' thundering herds. But look out! In the race to dino utopia, it's easy to get bumped by a baby brachiosaurus!

The Dino Math Tracks game provides multiple levels of play for a variety of ages. At the simplest level (perfect for a first-grader who knows Arabic numerals and one-to-one correspondence), kids use only the place track for the 1s. Later, cards with simple problems are introduced ("Stuck in a tar pit! Move your 10s dino back two spaces!"). At the most advanced level, players might encounter a question like this: "Your 10s dinosaur forgot its pants, so it went back 15 to get them. Then it hurried forward 25. How far did it get? Move that many." Young players will find the 2-inch, spunky vinyl dinosaur playing pieces irresistible. The game offers plenty of opportunities for friendly competition and brain bending--not to mention lots of nonthreatening practice at addition and subtraction. --Julie Ubben

Moneywise Kids

Amazon.com Review
Created by a volunteer math aide in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Moneywise Kids contains two simple, fun games that will help kids understand how money works, in terms of dollar value and spending power. In the first game, Bill Maker, kids take turns rolling the dice and earning dollars that are commensurate with the numbers that come up: roll a 2 and a 6, for instance, and you get $8. As they accrue wealth with each turn, players exchange smaller bills for larger ones until someone winds up with $100. In the second game, Bill Breaker, each player starts with $100 and earns more money with each turn, but players must also draw "moneywise markers"--bills for such real-life expenses as food, medical care, and taxes--and make payments along the way. And watch out for those hard-luck chips that mean big bills. The player who collects all six markers and still has $100 in savings is the winner. The game is lively and only lightly competitive, with an accent on grasping the mysteries of dollars and cents. --Tom Keogh

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