Active Arithmetic!: Movement and Mathematics Teaching in the Lower Grades of a Waldorf School

By Henning Andersen

Book Overview

Making math a meaningful and memorable event in a young child's life is all important. This book will help you to do it All recent brain development illustrates that movement is the key to a rich and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936367505
• ISBN13: 9781936367504
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: Waldorf Publications
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

out-of-seat exercisesto learn math concepts--if you have strong skills

An inspiring and artful collection of templates and exercises for you to create your own imaginative math activities. As in Euryrhthmy class, strong classroom managmentment skills are required to pull these off. Here's the thing; YOU will want to do them because of their artful inspiration. However the CHILDREN will only follow you into these if they respect you and wish to follow you. They are doing them for YOU not for the beauty of the exercise. I treausred my copy and no other book even remotely similar exists in the area of math, to my knowledge. The other related book is the Take Time book of rhythmic beanbag exercises which require far LESS classroom managment skill to pull off

Great resource!

As a new Waldorf teacher, I've found this book very valuable. Lots of ideas for math games and exercises and explanations of the "why" behind how math is taught in Waldorf schools. This should last me through 4th or 5th grade!