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Move beyond the norm in your math classroom and challenge students to think critically with More Math Puzzles and Patterns for Kids, a new companion book to the popular Math Puzzles and Patterns for Kids. This book, perfect for children grades 2-4, contains more of students’ favorite puzzles and patterns, as well as a few new ones for students to explore. All of the mathematical activities in this book were chosen for their important role in mathematics’ history.

Like its predecessor, this book explores the hottest concepts in puzzle solving—math logic puzzles—while teaching students how to use reasoning to solve some of math’s biggest conundrums: real-life patterns and puzzles such as:

• Fibonacci’s sequence,
• Sudoku puzzles,
• tangrams,
• Pascal’s triangle, and
• magic squares.

Students will sharpen their math skills while they learn the basic premises behind each challenging puzzle and then use the skills they have learned to solve multiple versions of each puzzle.

About the Author

Kristy Fulton has been teaching first grade for 14 years. She is also currently pursuing a master’s degree in curriculum and instruction at the University of Texas–Arlington. She earned her B.A. in English from UT–Permian Basin in 1992. Kristy has been recognized twice as a Model Educator by Renaissance Learning, and has received two Classroom Innovation grants from First Choice Power Company.

Kids Make Music!: Clapping & Tapping from Bach to Rock! is a great book for teaching music to children. It can also be a source for a workshop for early childhood educators. It has excellent ideas and ways of presenting musical concepts. Parents who home school their children also find it very helpful for daily use as part of the school curriculum.

You can make instruments, learn facts, and appreciate nature with this book. It is well. The chapters are excellent and make it so motivating that you would want to plan a musically rich lesson daily. It is a great book to have for any parent or teacher who wants to create and appreciate music with their kids.

"Classical music, opera, folk songs--even barbershop quartets--presented in a friendly, upbeat manner that invites participation."

Product Description

You don't need to have any special training or own an instrument to make music with kid-loving music makers Avery Hart and Paul Mantell. Kids everywhere will be doing the "Dinosaur Dance," singing the "Dishwashin' Blues," belting out "Jug Band" and learning to "Tap Dance." Those hands will be clapping, those feet will be tapping, and those faces will be grinning.