Tabletop Academy Press Let's Play Math: How Families Can Learn Math Together and Enjoy It

Amazing resource for parents to teach math

A very interesting and easy reading book about maths. Lot's of ideas for activities to do both at home and in the school. Good food for thought!!

This is my new favorite math book. I was afraid to buy "another math book," that also was not available from our library and did not have many reviews yet, and was written by a veteran homeschooler with a math background (-that should be a good thing, and in this case it is, but I've been burned before). But I'm so glad I took a chance. Finally, something with a trustworthy math worldview (ala Jo Baoler and the like) that is written for the homeschooler! It will take you through grade school. Keith Devlin gives exceeding endorsement in the forward.

I'm beginning to homeschool my just turned 5 year old son and I really want him to love math. I don't want to drill and kill him, but to have fun and create aha! Moments.This is an amazing book stuffed full of very usable ideas. Too much for getting everything in one reading. I'll definitely be rereading and taking lots of notes.Bottom line is yes, you should buy this. And yes, it's worth it. And no, you don't already have a book that's similar.I am very impressed with this book.

When I ordered this book I hoped it would be organized in the form of game like activities each practicing and teaching particular math skill or concept ordered according to increasingly challenging math skills and concepts. This book is a narrative promoting learning through activities that help children either develop a general math or geometric sense. It is about promoting a deeper understanding of math rather than route operations and memorizing algorithms. I am in total alignment with this method of approaching math but one has to read through a long narrative with activities embedded within it but not particularly organized. It is not easy to use this book as a source of simple, fun, meaningful, math activities. One has to search through the book to find a potentially useful activity. Most are discussed in very general terms rather than explicitly, leaving the parent to invent the activities. For what it is this is a great book and I would rate it a 5 for what it really is and 1 for what I thought it was and needed. So I averaged the scores and gave it a three but for what I need it for it actually is a generous score. I think if you have the same goal I think you will need another book.