Nimble With Numbers: Grade 1: Student Practice Book

Student Practice Books Enhance the Teacher Resource Guide with these user-friendly books. The format is the same but the content is different with varying activities. Learning math is more fun with Nimble with Numbers! This program will enhance number sense and promote practice while students solidify their understanding of number concepts, problem solving, and critical thinking. Nimble with Numbers is packed with high-quality, engaging activities that are ideal for daily practice in school or at home, summer school, and after-school programs. Activities are easy to prepare, easy to adapt, and are open-ended, allowing for multiple solutions. These activities require a problem-solving approach, leading to improvement of basic skills, enhanced number and operation sense, and positive attitudes toward mathematics as students’ abilities improve.The program consists of one Student Practice Book, one Answer Key, and one Teacher Resource Book per grade level. Engages the whole class, small groups, pairs, or individuals with activities and games that will help students master basic math skills.Provides a variety of adaptable formats for essential practice.Supplements and enhances any math curriculum.Improves students’ abilities in mental computation, fractions, decimals, percents, integers, and algebraic expressions.Encourages parent’s involvement in developing their child’s proficiency in math.Assesses competency with skill checks that provide quick feedback for teachers and families. New demands in standards-based mathematics curricula require that children have a strong foundation of essential skills in order to succeed in mathematics as the move through elementary school and beyond. Nimble with Numbers enhances number sense through extensive practice activities that help students master these essential number concept, problem solving and critical thinking skills. A variety of practice activity types extend the application of skills and the supplemental format is ideal for supporting a basal math program with skill practice or for use in after school and summer school. Use Nimble with Numbers in your elementary classrooms to: Lay a strong foundation of math skills to better prepare students for math in the upper elementary grades. Build proficiency in number sense and operationsEngage children through fun math games and activities that don’t feel intimidating or overwhelming. Promote mathematical thinking and communication as students develop and share strategies during team game play. Accommodate the need for individual accountability as students work on independent practice activities designed to improve their performance with number facts and computation. Research and Validity ResearchNimble with Numbers was classroom tested during development and continues to be widely used in preparing students with practice in the essential number sense and operation sense skills that they require to be successful in mathematics in elementary school.