Teach Your Child Math: Making Math Fun for the Both of You

by Arthur T. Benjamin, Michael Shermer (With)

By transforming math "problems" into games, this easy-to-follow book gives parents a fun way to help their children learn math. With an expanded section on problem solving, fun word problems, and entertaining visual concepts, it proves that math can be interesting.

Genres: Parenting, Mathematics

177 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1991

About the author

Arthur Benjamin holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and is a professor of mathematics at Harvey Mudd College, where he has taught since 1989. He is a noted “mathemagician,” known for being able to perform complicated computations in his head. He is the author, most recently, of The Secrets of Mental Math, and has appeared on The Today Show and The Colbert Report. Benjamin has been profiled in such publications as the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Scientific American, Discover, and Wired.

Reviews

[Truls Ljungström · Rating 3 out of 5]

En intressant översikt av mattespel för barn och varför de fungerar.

[Carrie Rose · Rating 4 out of 5]

My daughter is only two, so I'm not ready to use this book yet. But I'd like to re-read it in a few years. It looks like a great way to teach math. You can print out the pages in the book to make the manipulatives you need, so this is math education on a budget. (But I might buy manipulatives from another source.)

[Mandi Chandler · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is an ok book. If your not very good with math and would like to help your child with basic concepts this could help. If, however, you've already been working on fun ways to teach math you probably won't learn anything new from this book.