Math Games Lab for Kids: 24 Fun, Hands-On Activities for Learning with Shapes, Puzzles, and Games - Book Review

I recently read Math Games Lab for Kids: 24 Fun, Hands-On Activities for Learning with Shapes, Puzzles, and Games by Rebecca Rapoport. I read a review copy compliments of Netgalley and I am not being paid to give this review.

All of the activities are for children ages 6 – 10 but I have to admit that adults may even have fun doing some of these activities. The activities can be done in any order and the materials needed for the activities call for simple household items. When doing some of the activities, it may feel more like a game than actually doing math because students won’t realize they are using math principles to complete the activity.

These activities can either be done at home or in a classroom. Each activity begins with a question to think about. It allows the student to come up with a hypothesis and hooks them into the lesson. Each activity is well written giving materials needed, math facts, directions and illustration.

I think this book would make math learning fun for children! This book would be great in a school library or a classroom library or even for a student’s personal library.