Students are eager to solve these colorfully illustrated mind puzzles. There are several levels of difficulty which include one and two step solutions to everyday problems. Students will practice applying the basic math facts including addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, telling time, and counting money. Parents or teachers are able to assign sections that focus on specific skills. This book also includes a section on teaching time and teaching money concepts.

Story Problems the Fun Way! Solving Everyday Word Problems for Math, Money, and Time

Children's Books

Liautaud, Judy

Education & Reference

City Creek Press, Incorporated

Paperback version of the spiral bound Times Tables the Fun Way Book for Kids. Learn the multiplication facts 0s through 9s with engaging, colorful, cartoons and stories. Proven to increase retention of the multiplication facts. Students love the stories and beg for math class. To teach 6x6 the story tells of twin sixes who head off to visit their cousins. They must cross the desert and get very low on water. Just when the situation becomes dire, they run into a cool, clear, pond of sparkling water. The sign says the water is for "thirsty sixes." which sounds like the answer to 6x6, 36. When students see 6 x 6, they remember the story and then they remember the answer. Adults who used to be kids still remember learning these clever and fun stories when they were in elementary school. This method is research based and has been a successful tool for students all over the US to learn the basic facts.

Times Tables the Fun Way Book for Kids: A picture and story method of learning the multiplication facts

Science & Math

Rodriguez, Dave

Mathematics

In this sequel to Judy Liautaud’s award-winning memoir, Sunlight on My Shadow, Judy recounts her travels in the 70’s through Mexico, Central, and South America with her ex-husband, "adrenaline junkie,” Dave Rodriguez. Judy is enamored by her beloved Dave’s carefree attitude. She sets out to prove she has courage and grit and wants what Dave wants in this rolling stone life-style. A story of transformation and an education in life’s hard knocks. Kirkus reviews writes: “The prose is frank, reflective, and unprentious… A moving tale about young love, stirring adventures, and self-discovery.”

South of Ordinary: Stirring Travel Adventures of Young Love and Self-Discovery

Biographies & Memoirs

Travelers & Explorers

Once students know the stories in the Addition the Fun Way Book for Kids, you can use the workbook to reinforce the facts. Coloring pages, draw your own quizzes, and worksheets make learning fun. The addition stories are not included in this workbook. It is supplemental to the Addition the Fun Way Book for Kids. Students learn the addition facts by reading a story and seeing the pictures. Each number is a character in the story for easy recall and memorization of the addition basic facts up through 10 plus 10.

Addition the Fun Way Student Workbook: Requires the Addition the Fun Way Book for Kids

The paperback version of Times Tables the Fun Way is an activity book with color your own posters and make your own picture flash cards. The activity book contains the same stories as the spiral bound Book for Kids but it is in black and white and reproducible for classroom use. Memorization of the multiplication facts is fun and easy with this clever book of cartoons and stories. Children learn to associate the numbers with the characters in the story. To teach 4x4, the story tells about Bart who loves to go hang gliding and can't wait until he turns 16 so he can get his driver's license and drive his 4 by 4. Children easily remember once the story is learned. The caption below the story says: Remember: you have to be 16 to drive a 4x4. 
There are cartoons and stories for all the difficult facts, ie. the 3's, 4's, 6's, 7's, and 8's. Tricks are are used to teach the easier ones ie. 1's, 2's, 5's, and 9's. Kids love the stories and will never forget "You have to be 16 to drive a 4 by 4, (4x4). Over 500,000 copies of Times Tables the Fun Way have been sold to schools in the US since 1992.

Times Tables the Fun Way Activity Book : A Picture Method of Learning the Multiplication Facts

Literature & Fiction