Number Sense and Nonsense: Building Math Creativity and Confidence Through Number Play
To all our children I hope they will enjoy figuring out the difference between number sense and
Acknowledgments I want to thank the many educators and authors whose ideas I have adapted for this book Several of their books are listed in the Bibliography In particu lar I am indebted to the Family Math book for the activity Number Rectangles on page 16 Beatrice Lumpkin informed me about the evidence for the concept of zero in ancient Egypt The two headed sheep on page 2 is described in Finders Keepers by Stephen J Gould and Rosamond Wolff Purcell Nor ton 1992 Credit for permission to reprint The Monkey’s Age page 75 goes to Gary Hendren and the Missouri Council of Teachers of Mathematics Bul letin March
Number Sense and Nonsense: Building Math Creativity and Confidence Through Number Play
These 80-plus math activities and number games help kids to think critically about math instead of just memorizing rules
