Math Journaling Adventures Launched: Order Your Copy Today

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Math Journaling Adventures: Creative Logbooks for All Ages

And so it begins: the Math Journaling Adventures is LIVE on Kickstarter!

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⭐ Don’t delay! First-day backers get the best deals. Choose one of the Earlybird rewards:

  • Earlybird 2-Logbook Sets in Digital, Paperback, Spiral-Bound, or Hardcover
  • Earlybird Everything Bundles in Digital or Paperback

To have a successful campaign, we need plenty of people to back the project early. The more supporters we get in these early days, the more likely the Kickstarter platform folks will help spread the news for us.

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Coming Soon: Math Journaling Adventures

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Math Journaling Adventures Kickstarter

Coming Soon! On March 3, I’ll be launching the first installment in my new book series, the Math Journaling Adventures.

You’ll love these books because they make creative math investigations open-and-go for busy parents and teachers.

And the Kickstarter prelaunch page is now live. That means you can sign up to get an email from Kickstarter as soon as the campaign launches:

Visit the Prelaunch Page ❯

If you back the campaign on launch day, you can catch a great deal with the Earlybird discount pledge levels.

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Holiday Countdown Craft

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Marking time is hard for children (and often for us adults, as well).

I don’t mean telling time, which has its own difficulties. But waiting, marking time until the Big Day or Important Event arrives.

Whether you’re counting down the days to Christmas, or the hours until New Year’s Day, or waiting for a birthday or visit to Grandma — it’s never easy to sit idly during the interim.

Holiday Countdown

Holiday Countdown craft bookHere’s a fun little craft that can make the waiting easier, or at least make it easier to keep track of how much longer until the time is right.

It’s a spinning time-piece for kids to decorate and put together (with a bit of adult help wielding a craft knife).

Holiday Countdown is a 28-page printable file includes illustrated instructions, along with countdown timers for birthday, Christmas, and New Year’s Eve celebrations, plus blank timers you can adapt to any occasion.

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Mandala Version, with Video Instructions

The ever-creative Manja designed a mandala-coloring version of the countdown timer for New Year’s Eve. Read all about it (and find the download links) on her Hattifant blog.

 
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“Holiday Countdown Craft” copyright © 2024 by Denise Gaskins. Image at the top of the post copyright © BrianAJackson / Depositphotos.

Quick Note: Black Weekend Sale

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This Weekend Only

For US customers, ALL merchandise items at my Playful Math Store are on sale for the Black Friday/Small Business Saturday/Cyber Monday season.

Display your mathy spirit for everyone to see. And they make great gifts, too!

Plus, each purchase comes with a free bonus book — see product listings for details.

Check it out:

Playful Math Merch Sale

(International readers: I’m sorry. Due to tax issues, merchandise is only available in the US for now.)

Math Art Sale Almost Over

Remember, for November I’ve put all my digital printable math art activities on sale for 20% off. (Discount calculated automatically at checkout.)

Just a few days left to take advantage of that discount!

Gratis Games and Playful Math News

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Do you want to help your children learn math?

Teach them to play.

Grab a free copy of my Let’s Play Math Sampler: 10 Family-Favorite Games for Learning Math Through Play, which contains short excerpts from my most popular titles. It’s a great way to get started with playful math. 😍

As a bonus, I’ll add you to my Playful Math News email subscription and send you monthly tips and activity ideas for playing math with your kids.

From time to time, I’ll even throw in a free sample of whatever I’ve been working on — an early draft of something that will eventually show up in one of my books or printable activity guides.

For example, check out this fun freebie I sent last April:

Don’t miss out on all this mathy goodness. Sign up today!

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Oh, Internet, Thou Fickle Friend!

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Whew! I just finished going through ALL of my massive Internet Math Resources pages and fixing the links that had broken since the (too long ago) last time I checked.

Way too many broken links. Pages lost to the ether: fun old hobby sites of a teacher who retired and lost their school-sponsored page, sites that have set up a payment wall, and sites that still exist but have been rearranged, breaking all the old connections.

Many I was able to fix, some I had to delete.

But still, there are plenty of great links left, so if you’re looking for an interesting way to play with math, head over and explore:

Hopefully, everything works now.

Until the next time…

 
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Image at the top of the post copyright © sliper84 / Depositphotos.

New Math Game Books and a Back-to-School Sale

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Tabletop Math Games Collection books by Denise Gaskins

After wrestling with some technical issues to connect my book printer to the store, I’m pleased to announce that the new Tabletop Math Games Collection, Volume Two books are now available in digital and print formats on my Playful Math Store.

Visit the New Products page to find everything in the image above:

Or check out the Tabletop Math Games Collection page to see the Volume One books also:

I’m working on getting the paperback and hardcover editions of these books into all the regular online bookstores, but that’s been a slower process than normal. You can purchase ALL versions through my store now, and I’ll let you know whenever I find out the other bookstores have them available…

Back-to-School Sale

Would you like to add a playful challenge to your homeschool or classroom planning?

For many years, I led math enrichment classes through our local homeschool co-ops. In recent years, family health issues have kept me from teaching and from doing library meet-ups.

But even if you’ve never done one of my classes — or even if you live far from my hometown — you can still give your children a taste of creative math through my books and activity guides at Denise Gaskins’ Playful Math Store.

Back to School Sale: Save 20% off problem-solving ebooks and printable activities through September 30th.

Because thinking hard can be downright fun!

Memories: Improper Fractions

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Homeschool Memories…

My eight-year-old daughter’s first encounter with improper fractions was a bit more intense than she knew how to handle. And I hadn’t learned yet how to use the Notice-Wonder-Create cycle to help kids think about tough problems.

Sometimes I wonder how our children survive their parents’ learning curve. It’s a good thing God made them resilient enough to thrive despite our mistakes!

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FAQ: My Playful Math Books

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Playful math books by Denise Gaskins

Number Neighborhoods game book by Denise GaskinsIn the weeks since I opened my new Playful Math Store, I’ve been getting a lot of questions about how all the books relate to each other.

For example…

Q: Your books look so interesting! Is the material in the books all different?

    A: There is a bit of overlap between books, but not much in most cases.

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Spring Sale on Let’s Play Math

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Let's Play Math book by Denise Gaskins

Spring 2024 Sale: Save 20% off Let’s Play Math: How Families Can Learn Math Together and Enjoy It in ebook or paperback!

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As school wraps up for the year in the U.S., many homeschoolers turn their minds to planning for next fall. That makes spring a great time to discover how to transform your child’s experience of math through playful discovery!

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