Socks Are Like Pants, Cats Are Like Dogs

Book excerpt: Do you want your children to feel like algebra is beautiful, playful, and intuitive? Socks Are Like Pants, Cats Are Like Dogs inspires families and groups to play, solve, talk, and make math-together! The book is filled with a diverse collection of math games, puzzles, and activities exploring the mathematics of choosing, identifying and sorting. The activities inside are portable and easy to start. Many require little in the way of materials and preparation. Teacher and parent tested in real classrooms and living rooms, the ideas in this book are created to encourage endless inventiveness and variation. Be inspired to play and create, again and again, each time with a different, perhaps surprising result. Don't hesitate-play math today!