The book presents 90 mini books to build for learning and reviewing the mathematics teaching contents of the first grade of primary school in a fun, engaging and motivating way. Each mini book features easy exercises to do and pictures to color.  The activities are designed to be started and concluded in one lesson, so as to avoid the “fatigue” effect in starting, quitting and resuming an activity.

The exercises are divided into 6 sections:

1. Prerequisites
2. Counting and numbers up to 20
3. Additions and subtractions to 20
4. Numbers over 20
5. Problem solving
6. Geometry

Before each section, you will find a theoretical introduction and indications on the materials to be used to carry out the activities, an explanation of the progress and objectives of each activity.

For each proposed topic, laboratory proposals are included for group work to be carried out with the whole class.

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How the book is made

Instructions for constructing the mini books

Workshop proposals for the class

90 mini books to build

The pocket mini library

Look at some activities taken from the volume:

Teaching objectives

• Letter recognition;
• Creativity;
• Lexical production;
• Attention, memory, response inhibition.

How to build a mini book

The mini books are small thematic booklets of 8 pages, each dedicated to a specific learning content. Starting from an A4 photocopy, children  independently build mini books using their creativity and fine motor skills: folding, cutting precisely, mentally rotating and predicting the result, experimenting.

Not only that, the mini books enrich the shelves of their pocket mini library represented on the final page of the book.

To build a mini book, follow these steps:

Leaf through some pages translated into English to facilitate your evaluation of the product:

THE AUTHOR

Desirèe Rossi graduated in Educational Sciences and Clinical Psychology. She was a teacher at nursery schools in the Autonomous Province of Trento and currently teaches in primary school. She collaborates with the Erickson Research and Development Sector, with which she participated in the design of SOFIA, an expertal system for drafting PEI and PDP.