Math Play

Let's Play the Math Game

Mathematics is arguably one the toughest subjects to study in school. Many have shied away from its challenges. And most of the people, who, as students, retreated from this subject, carried with them this aversion to adulthood. But the author, Dr. John W. Joyner, contends that the study of mathematics can be fun. But this needs the collaboration and cooperation between parent and child. A parent, as a child¿s first teacher, has a great possibility to influence a child¿s future success. And with this method, it can be an enjoyable and, more importantly, a very enticing way to learn mathematics.

Let's Play Math

Play and Curriculum

Educators have long been pursuing and applying ways that play can be a context and even a medium for teaching and learning. Volume 15 of Play & Culture Studies focuses on the special topic on Play and Curriculum, a long waited topic to many educators and researchers in the field of play and education. This volume includes chapters reporting recent studies and practical ideas examining the relations between the play and curriculum from early education to higher education. The volume has 3 sections with the 9 chapters grouped to represent various voices on play and curriculum: in Culture, in STEM, in Higher Education. The uniqueness of this book is represented by its breadths and depths of diversity from investigating play and curriculum in an indigenous group in Columbia to play in a New York City Public school and from play and curriculum in a Family Child Care context to the uses of play with college students.