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As we always do we come back to Melissa and Doug for good name high quality learning toys! The Melissa & Doug Magnetic Wooden Numbers are a simple yet efficient way to encourage number play in your little one. These easy to grasp wooden numbers allow you to practice mathematical problems by seeing them and touching them. Working through homework problems becomes easier as numbers become more tangible to little hands! |
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I can’t begin to state the importance of encouraging math skills as early as possible and the Educo Rainbow Bead Abacus is a great way to get kids used to counting and adding and subtracting numbers in a fun and colorful way! Kids who learn to compute using an abacus have significantly more success with math in their later life! This beautiful abacus is made from hardwood and features ten rows of ten beads. |
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If you haven’t ever seen “Right Brain Math” and have a child who, like I was and still am, extremely deficient in the math department then you have to check this out! Right Brain Math teaches those of us who are right brained and more creative easy ways to perform math functions which challenge us a little more than those lefties! |
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As a child who always had trouble learning and rememebering math and as an adult who still has trouble remembering and using math I cannot reinforce the importance of sharing numbers and math with your children from an early age and maintaining that experience as your children age. Making math fun is a really easy way to help your children remember math and have a much better experience in school. Dino Math Tracks Place Value Game is an amazing award winning game with a prehistoric twist that reinforces counting, addition, subtraction and place value skills! Players move around a set of four tracks with tiny dinos of their own and with each spin of
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the four included dice each player is given a four digit number which they must correctly place on the four tracks using their dino pals! All the players race to get to the end of the game first by being able to accurately place their 1’s, 10’s, 100’s and 1,000’s dinos on the right place on the board! This game is recommended for children ages 6yrs+ and can be played by up to four players at once! You can find the Dino Math Tracks Place Value Game over at Amazon.com. I have not been able to find this game locally as of yet. |
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It is far easier in this day and age to get a child interested in video games than it is to get them interested in learning or doing their homework and sometimes we have to take advantage of that fact to increase their interest in learning. The Vtech – Nitro Junior Notebook is a wonderful way to encourage further learning for children ages 4 – 6 years. This tiny laptop computer created for younger minds features 50 different activities that teach science, creative logic, language, math and more! By showing lessons through interesting facts and activities the Vtech – Nitro Junior Notebook encourages learning in a more gentle and some might say sneaky way
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as opposed to sitting a child in front of a book with a pen and pencil in hand. The Vtech – Nitro Junior Notebook includes 8 different learning cartridges including Nature and Science, World Discovery, Art Album, Game Time, Social Studies, Language Arts, Math Explorer and Music Studio! The computer itself features a QWERTY keyboard, a volume control slider, a mousepad and an LED screen! You can find the Vtech – Nitro Junior Notebook over at Amazon.com. You will be able to find this one in most larger retail toy stores as well! |
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