Dazzling Division: Games and Activities That Make Math Easy and Fun

Don't Just Learn Division . Master It! Brimming with fun and educational games and activities, the Magical Math series provides everything you need to know to become a master of mathematics! In each of these books, Lynette Long uses her own unique style to help you truly understand mathematical concepts as you play with everyday objects such as playing cards, dice, coins, paper, and pencil. Inside Dazzling Division, you'll learn the basics of division and then quickly begin to solve division problems. You'll find out what divisors, dividends, and quotients are and how to look at division as simply putting items into groups. Once you've grasped these basics, you'll practice your skills with such fun games and activities as Division Tic-Tac-Toe, Off to the Races, and Three-in-a-Row Bingo. Finally, you can move on to become truly dazzling at division by mastering the mysteries of remainders, prime numbers, and long division while playing Prime Mania and Shout It Out! So why wait? Jump right in and find out how easy it is to become a mathematics master!

Don’t Just Learn Division … Master It! Brimming with fun and educational games and activities, the Magical Math series provides everything you need to know to become a master of mathematics! In each of these books, Lynette Long uses her own unique style to help you truly understand mathematical concepts as you play with everyday objects such as playing cards, dice, coins, paper, and pencil. Inside Dazzling Division, you’ll learn the basics of division and then quickly begin to solve division problems. You’ll find out what divisors, dividends, and quotients are and how to look at division as simply putting items into groups. Once you’ve grasped these basics, you’ll practice your skills with such fun games and activities as Division Tic-Tac-Toe, Off to the Races, and Three-in-a-Row Bingo. Finally, you can move on to become truly dazzling at division by mastering the mysteries of remainders, prime numbers, and long division while playing Prime Mania and Shout It Out! So why wait? Jump right in and find out how easy it is to become a mathematics master!

Parent Council Reviews

This book offers real help and fun for children working to master the challenges of division. Division is the most complex of the four basic operations for mathematics. It involves the other three, subtraction, multiplication, and addition. Learning division also calls for an unfamiliar visualization—breaking something into a set of even sized pieces. Worse yet, there is sometimes a left-over piece of smaller size than the even pieces! The first chapter, "The Magic of Division," introduces three views of division: as grouping, as repeated subtraction, and as the opposite of multiplication. Chapter two, "Understanding Division Facts," presents visualization tools, number circles, number lines, coins, and more. Chapter three, "Division Practice Games," offers eleven different division games. Chapter four, "Becoming Dazzling at Division," presents fourteen ways to refine and extend division skills, including advanced concepts, remainders, long division, checking results, and prime numbers. 2000, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., $12.95. Ages 8 to 10. Reviewer: M. Henebry SOURCE: Parent Council Volume 8

Lynette Long has a Ph.D. in psychology and an M.S. in mathematics. She has taught math and was a professor of education, specializing in mathematics education. She is the author of several children's math books, including Dealing with Addition and Painless Algebra.