Number Games to Improve Your Child’s Arithmetic PDF
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m MimfedG 3 ft® OGTn]grow< ©MM Vcot a /Mftto©fto© ABRAHAM HURWITZ B. ARTHUR GODDARD DAVID T EPSTEIN 3 LHJ^XiO fe]<HlM)< -n& Abraham B. Hurwitz Arthur Goddard David T. Epstein Arithmetic, long the bugaboo of most children, is here given a fresh ap- proach by making use of a child's joy in playing games. In this book are over ahundred delightful,carefullyplanned and classroom-tested games with numbers at the elementary level (pre- school through sixth grade) that a child will have fun playing with his parents, his friends, his schoolmates, or by himself. All of these games, as well as the arithmetic shortcuts, "arithmetricks," oddities of arith- metic, and quips and jests provide an easy and pleasant way of familiarizing a child with the techniques of count- ing and calculation and of arousing his interest in and curiousity about numbers. The book begins with easy games for the young child and proceeds to oral games, paper-and-pencil games, card games, games with dice and dominoes, and games with prepared materials. There are also party games for large groups or classes, and mathematical stunts, novelties, teasers, jokes, riddles, and tricks to stimulate and sustain interest. An Index of Skills Taught enables the (continuedon back flap) Jacket design byJudith Woracek BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY Digitized by the Internet Archive 2012 in http://archive.org/details/numbergamestoimpOOhurw NUMBER GAMES TO IMPROVE YOUR CHILD'S ARITHMETIC ABRAHAM HURWITZ B. ARTHUR GODDARD DAVID EPSTEIN T. NUMBER GAMES TO IMPROVE YOUR CHILD'S ARITHMETIC FUNK & WAGNALLS NEW YORK Copyright © 1975 by Abraham B. Hurwitz, Arthur Goddard, David T. Epstein All rights reserved. Except for use in a review, the reproduction or utilization ofthis work in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including xerography, photocopying, and recording, and in any information storage and retrieval system is forbidden without the written permission ofthe publisher. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto. Book design & illustrations by the Whole Works: Chas. Peach, Cathy Rennich & Ethel Steginsky Manufactured in the United States of America ISBN 0-308-10162-6 Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Hurwitz, Abraham B. Number games to improve your child's arithmetic. Includes index. 1. Mathematical recreations. 2. Arithmetic—Study and teaching. I. Epstein, David T.,joint author. II. Goddard, Arthur, joint author. III. Title. QA95.H89 1975 793.7'4 74-23849 ISBN 0-308-10162-6 123456789 10 TO THE YOUNGER GENERATION, who, we hope, will now derive as much pleasure from arithmetic as from the other two of the three R's
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