Addition Adventures - Fun with math

David loves math, but often doing worksheet after worksheet to reinforce mathematical learning is too dull for either of us to pursue. So, when I bought MindWare’s Addition Adventures, I thought it might be a nice change.

What I didn’t expect was how much fun he would find it.

On top of each page of the book there’s a treasure map of sorts, with a star indicating the starting point. Your child answers about 20 mathematical questions, and the answers to each of those questions (plus the N-E-S-W direction beside the equation) indicates how many squares and in what direction you should move away from the last point, till you reach your final destination.

The pages start off at a grade 1 level, with addition problems that only go up to ten, and don’t advance too quickly. By the end of the book the numbers go up to 20, but slowly enough that it seems like a natural and easy progression.

We always start out by guessing where the path will lead us, and if one of us guessed right, that person ‘wins’, which turns the page into a treasure map AND a game.

Highly recommended. And I’ve already ordered Subtraction Secrets in the same series so that we can keep going once we’re finished the addition book.

Tags: math, puzzles, mathbook, math practice, maths, mindware

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