Free eBooks by Dave Moursund

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1. The book focuses on the idea of “Play together, learn together.” Learning can be fun. Children and parents can have fun and can learn through playing together. Children can have fun and learn while playing together.
   
   
2. A parent, teacher, or other caregiver, when working with a child or very small group of children, is serving as a tutor. One-on-one or small group tutoring is a very effective aid to learning.  David Moursund is co-author of a free book on math tutoring designed for parents, teachers, and others. See http://iae-pedia.org/Math_Tutoring.
   
   
3. The Web is a tremendous and steadily growing resource of learning materials and activities. More generally, there are many computer-based resources that are designed to help a learner learn. In this book we use the idea of a human tutor and a computer-as-tutor (a computer tutor) working together to help a student learn.
   
   
4. The book focuses on the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). It contains links to a large number of valuable resources.

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1. The book focuses on the idea of “Play together, learn together.” Learning can be fun. Children and parents can have fun and can learn through playing together. Children can have fun and learn while playing together.
   
   
2. A parent, teacher, or other caregiver, when working with a child or very small group of children, is serving as a tutor. One-on-one or small group tutoring is a very effective aid to learning.  David Moursund is co-author of a free book on math tutoring designed for parents, teachers, and others. See http://iae-pedia.org/Math_Tutoring.
   
   
3. The Web is a tremendous and steadily growing resource of learning materials and activities. More generally, there are many computer-based resources that are designed to help a learner learn. In this book we use the idea of a human tutor and a computer-as-tutor (a computer tutor) working together to help a student learn.
   
   
4. The book focuses on the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM). It contains links to a large number of valuable resources.

Moursund, David and Albrecht, Robert (2011). Using math games and word problems to increase the math maturity of K-8 students. Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. (210 pages).

PDF. This book was created for preservice and inservice teachers with the goal of improving the informal and formal math education of preK-8 students. The authors emphasize using simple, inexpensive games to provide students with learning environments that help to increase their levels of math maturity. The focus is on learning for understanding that will last a lifetime.

The book includes both underlying math education “theory” and a variety of games. There is considerable emphasis on developing and testing strategies to help increase one’s effectiveness in dealing with recurring math-related problems and problem situations.

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Moursund, David and Albrecht, Robert (2011). . Eugene, OR: Information Age Education. (210 pages).

Microsoft Word. This book was created for preservice and inservice teachers with the goal of improving the informal and formal math education of preK-8 students. The authors emphasize using simple, inexpensive games to provide students with learning environments that help to increase their levels of math maturity. The focus is on learning for understanding that will last a lifetime.

The book includes both underlying math education “theory” and a variety of games. There is considerable emphasis on developing and testing strategies to help increase one’s effectiveness in dealing with recurring math-related problems and problem situations.

This book is about math tutoring. It is designed to help math tutors and tutees get better at their respective and mutual tasks. The intended audiences for this book include volunteer and paid tutors, preservice and inservice teachers, parents and other child caregivers, students who help other students (peer tutors), and developers of tutorial software and other materials.

If you just want to read the Table of Contents, Preface, first two chapters, and the two appendices, you can do this without doing a long download by going to http://iae-pedia.org/Math_Tutoring.

Here is another recent book by Moursund and Albrecht. (It is not free, but it is inexpensive.) Both Moursund & Albrecht books focus on helping students gain in math maturity.

Using math games and word problems to increase math maturity. Salem, OR: The Math Learning Center. For details see http://iae-pedia.org/Moursund_and_Albrecht:_Math_games_and_word_problems.