This book offers engaging and hands-on activities that make learning math fun for children. I recommend this book for parents and educators looking to supplement math education with interactive and enjoyable exercises.

It is always hard to think of new ways to teach and inspire with Maths. I love Maths and I still find it tricky to think of ways to keep the learning new and exciting. This book really gives you a great way to look at Maths and learning in a whole new light. I found it very interesting and highly recommend it!

Math can seem like a daunting task to teach, but using common materials, this book presents some fun projects for learning the basics. Perfect for homeschooling and distance learning, as well as just filling time in our endless quarantine...

Thanks to the publishers and NetGalley for a digital ARC for the purpose of an unbiased review.

Thank you NetGalley and publishers for an ARC. All opinions are my own.

This book provides great strategies for keeping math engaging and encourages extension in learning concepts. I enjoyed the art incorporation and utilizing cross curricular activities to develop fun and long lasting learning.

Great book that includes a hands on approach to making math fun. We especially loved the geometry activities with the gumdrops and toothpicks. Would highly recommend for math lovers or for hands on activities for reluctant learners. Thank you NetGalley for an advanced viewing of this book.

A wonderful resource for children, parents/caretakers, teachers and anybody who would like to discover the beauty of maths through hands-on fun activities. The book is orgaised into 9 chapters and 37 labs that can be done in order. All of them contain clear instructions and illustrations that make it easy to follow the task and learn something new about maths. My students loved experimenting with toothpick shapes, tangrams and Möbius strips to name just a few.
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I always had trouble with math and was never really good at understanding how to find a logic way for solving the math problems at hand.

But I am quit sure had somebody handed me this book my path would be a different one.

I like this book because it helps children ( and some adults, myself included) in a fun way to better understand math.

There are puzzles, things you can build and with that the understanding for math is rising and in a short time you start to like math ( never thought this could happen to me )


So thanks for letting me read the book.

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Introduce your child and/or your students to the beauty of math. Help them to see that it is so much more than formulas and memorized facts. Math has gotten a bad rap for years. It is the brunt of many jokes about how hard it is. It doesn't have to be hard. This book offers 37 "labs" that invite children grades 2-5 to explore math concepts in geometry, fractals, topology, color maps, stitching curves, the Koch snowflake, tangrams, toothpick puzzles, etc. The math adventures in this book can be done with materials found in most homes or in the book itself. Each lab begins with colorful visuals, clear steps to help one get started. and challenges to take the learning to another level. As a math teacher for the past 40 years I know how important this book is to help your child to discover the beauty and fun side of math. Help them learn that the willingness to keep trying is one of the most important mathematical skills of all.

This book is full of lots of fun activities based on maths, I think older children would like this book more than younger children. The book is bright and colourful with lots of diagrams and photos. Children and parents who are keen to see visual maths would enjoy this. Thank you for the opportunity to review this book.

There are 37 ideas contained within this book, to help make maths more fun and relevant. They scratch the surface of maths and sometimes contain additional or more advanced material. The projects are created using standard household materials, such as toothpicks, gumdrops (jelly tots for me!!), pencils, ruler and string.

This book is split into 9 sections
- Geometry
- Topology
- Maps
- Curves
- Fractions
- Tangrams
- Puzzles
- Game of Nim
- Graphs

Each project contains a colour photograph of work in progress, steps to follow and matching diagrams to provide details on how to build up the shape. There is also a Maths Fact with a number of drawings to explain the maths side of things. At the rear of the book are the solutions. Some of the projects are done with small bits of paper, some can be upscaled to do on the ground outside. Only in one lab is there sums to do, it's colouring in, making shapes or playing games otherwise. The book is aimed at children between the ages of 6 to 10.

It certainly makes maths a little more fun, especially if you could eat the prisms afterwards!

I received this book from Netgalley in return for a honest review.

A great book full of fantastic ideas and great, step by step, examples. My learners have enjoyed learning about mathematical concepts in a relaxed and fun way. An excellent resource that I know I will dip into for years.

By approching complex mathematical problems with a simple language and in a creative way, this book bring various math branches close to the soul and mind of children. From learning about shapes and colouring as a mathematician, to Tangram games and various applications of the fractal theories, Math Games Lab for Kids is an excellent collections of exercices supported by short theoretical introductions. One can easily work most of the applications suggested by using household objects, such as toothpick or matches.
The visual part is entertaining and well done as well.
A recommended read for further use in the classroom for teachers, but also for parents coping with the homeschooling tasks and children curious to explore maths in a natural way.

A fun books on Maths activities. The layout with the images is good. It is easily understandable for kids. Topics included are Geometry, Topology, Colouring Maps, Stitching Curves, Fantastic Fractions, Terrific Tangrams, Toothpick Puzzles, The Game of Nim and Graph Theory.
We had fun with the activities on Mobius Strips

Thanks to netgalley and the publisher for the eARC.

What I love about the activities in this book is that the emphasis is on fun, rather than the maths. Yes, there is a mathematical concept underlying them but children will simply be playing a game or colouring in. This approach has allowed Rapoport and Yoder to include some rather complex (sometimes graduate level) mathematical concepts such as topology which I think is very impressive. I loved this Möbius strips lab. My favourite lab was learning to play the game of Nim – I’d never played before! – the scenario diagrams worked well and it’s an easy concept to pick up and discuss the strategy with children.

** This is from a larger review to be published on my blog 4 June**

There’s some great ideas in this book. I would refer to this for if I was running a maths club or was looking for some fun activities to do with math. I especially liked how some of them linked to other subjects like geography with the map activity!

Very cute book of games that go far beyond the normal addition and multiplication. It would be good for a kid who believes they don't like math and for the kid who likes math too! Sadly it is a little young for my own kids or I'd be buying it right now. The only downside is that it would be hard to tie in with a specific math program they were working on.

What a wonderful book! This book has done, what some of us feel to be, the impossible!! This book has taken math, a topic many struggle with, and has made it fun and engaging!! I am looking forward to introducing the activities to my own children and watching their joy as they work through this book. The illustrations and photographs are well spaced and provide the right amount of visual support. Well done!
Thank you for allowing me the opportunity to read this book in exchange for my honest review.

This book has many different parts of math. Each part has several activities in each part. It would be a good hands on book for children that learn through hands on. It is basically a book that makes models/Manipulatives to teach math. It would be good for children learning the concepts for the first time or those who need more hands on.

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.

This is a great book for engaging kids in play based learning about maths. My 5 year old loves maths and really enjoyed lots of these activities. Some will be better for when she’s older but this has been a welcomed resource during home learning.