Playing with Numbers: A Playbook to Build Numeracy for 3-7 Years Olds, Including Counting, Measuring, Sizes, Shapes, Patterns, Groups and Telling the Time (Early Learner) - Softcover

Joanna Babb

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844765342 ISBN 13: 9781844765348

Publisher: Southwater, 2008

Synopsis

More than 300 bright, colourful pictures of children at work and at play make learning fun Exciting activities supplement schoolwork and practise essential numeracy skills Puzzles and games provide hours of entertainment for children to enjoy alone or with friends Guidance notes give adults advice on getting the most from the book Building numeracy: counting and measuring, shapes and time * progress charts and certificates * puzzles, games and activities Teachers can photocopy the pages for classroom use. Give your child a head start at school and have lots of fun at the same time. Bright photographs of children at work and play combine with games, puzzles, exercises and activities to stimulate the childÆs numeracy development, powers of concentration, and enjoyment of learning. Young readers will be drawn to the delightful action pictures of children just like them, and to the simplicity of the uncluttered pages. A British Government paper noted that ôWhen parents and adults work together to support childrenÆs learning, the results can have a measurable and lasting effect upon childrenÆs achievement.ö This book is packed with fun learning activities that children and adults can share and enjoy together. They are carefully devised to give a child the necessary confidence and motivation that are fundamental to building basic numeracy skills. Playing with Numbers focuses on different, key aspects of numeracy in turn û counting, adding and subtracting, measures, shape and space, time, direction and movement û using such devices as puzzles, games, recipes, and lots of ideas to try out at home, in nursery school and first year at primary school. Parents, teachers, and, most of all, children will gain enormous benefits from this carefully targeted play-and-learn book. Includes the all-important incentives and rewards in the form of progress charts and certificates.

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About the Author

Joanna Babb is a teacher, singer and reviewer of children's books. She studied at the University of London Institute of Education. She has worked as a primary school teacher in Britain and Africa. She now freelances as a teacher of children with special needs and as an educational consultant advising schools on book provision and children's writing programmes. Joanna is passionate about music and, in addition to teaching this in school, she sings in a folk band.

Edition details

• Publisher: Southwater
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844765342
• ISBN 13: 9781844765348
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64