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In order to learn the toys that are considered Toy Learning tools, you must first consider the age group of your child. For a child to learn from a toy, the toy must also be fun and entertaining so that the toy's pleasure time is not just a few minutes and then discarded. Toys need to be engaging as well as educational. These days there are a plethora of companies offering free Educational or Learning Toy Catalogs.

Also, toys should present an outlet for creativity as well as encourage developmental growth. But what toys besides Multiplication Learning Toys are considered Toy Learning tools? From the time a child is a tiny helpless baby, that baby learns something with every waking moment. The proper toys such as the Children's Toy Bounce Spin Bull Learning Toy should enable their discovering minds to concentrate on focusing their environmental awareness, use their built-in creative expression, and expand their social understanding. Tall order? You bet!

Discovery and new physical skills are an important facet of 0-12 month-olds. There are numerous toys that fulfill that need, such as crib attachments that come in a myriad of colors that make interesting sounds when touched. Moving toys that can be set in motion by tiny little hands seeking to learn what each object is and what it does also fit this age group.

The 1-2 year old toddler will be more attracted to toys that develop new skills. Toys that need more than touch to activate are considered extremely educational, as the child winds, twists, or otherwise manipulates the toy.

Toy Learning tools for the 3-5 year old require toys that preschoolers will play with that stir up their imagination, while teaching them social graces as they play with other children. Considered the most critical developmental growth stage by both experts and parents, toys for this age need to be alluring, and inspirational, as well as starting to encourage a withdrawal from dependency on the child's caregivers. Cognitive development needs to be encouraged at this age and toys that need to be put together, change colors, or are somehow personalized by the child give confidence, self-reliance and will still stir the creative side of the child.

Once a child reaches the ages of 6-8 educational toys that bring the pleasure of actual learning to the child will be the best. Toy Learning tools at this point are those that require experimentation, such as construction sets, magic sets, arts and crafts and innumerable puzzles will meet that need. The toy that requires reading at their particular level is also perfect for that age group.

9-11 year olds will appreciate toys that expand their minds, and encourage rational thought, such as toys for science experiments, construction of various collectibles and anything involving outdoor play.

12 years and up value toys that involve more complex reading, help them with social graces and even propel them to seriously consider the opposite sex. Finding Toy Learning tools for this age will probably be the most difficult, as the child is now at the stage where their personalities are definitely set, and thus a toy needs to fit that personality. Those closer to the child will be of immeasurable help at this time.

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I bought a Zebra brownie kit for my son. He did have fun making it, and the brownies were ok. The nutritional info on the package doesn't look too bad, but when I ran the actual nutritional information, made as the recipe says, it was an eye-opener. The box says it makes 12 brownies. We cut our pan into 16. Even with that, the calorie count was 190 cal/brownie, 22 grams carbs, 10 grams fat. If you have active kids, this probably isn't a problem, but if they are on the sedentary side, this may not be the dessert you want them to have.
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Once a week we come home from school and bake ZEBRA MIX-organic baking kits for kids! These kits are amazing they turn baking into a fun, smart and educational activity and it is totally easy for me (Mom)! Each kit comes with a SAFARI BAKING MAP which is double sided with two levles of learning. My oldest kids (9 and 12) work on side 2 and my youngest (age 4) works on side 1, he follows the pictures and large sight words while my older kids are doing time trials and learning the cooking verbs in Spanish. I am a total hero and word has gotten out at school abd everyone wants to come to our house. The organic cookies, brownies and cupcakes are so delicious that we seldom have left over for lunches but, I bake two kits and freeze a batch for lunches.

In continuation of my series on arithmetic, I present here a topic that was one of the cornerstones in my book Arithmetic Magic. To fully understand how this concept aids one in arithmetic operations, we need to lay some foundational ideas first. The Quick-Add is an enormously valuable tool to help children master quick arithmetic, particularly applied to summing numbers. Today the calculator has crippled even the ablest students. Hardly a one knows his fundamental multiplication facts, as the omnipresent calculator does this operation for him. This situation is understandable, and a comparison I can make is one regarding remembering telephone numbers. Since the ubiquitous cell phones store numbers, I no longer memorize peoples numbers as I have no need to. Analogously, students no longer can add or multiply because the calculator does it for them. This is a problem for the following reasons: 1) not mastering arithmetic leads to problems in mathematics down the road; 2) not being able to add or multiply engenders frustration when doing basic homework assignments; and 3) lack of doing = future lack of doing, which further increases the chance of mathematical illiteracy.

The Quick-Add method gives students a viable alternative to performing quick sums without the aid of calculators or pencil and paper. This method is based on the idea of complements. The word complement means to complete, and this is exactly what these numbers do. A 10-Complement completes the 10; a 100-Complement completes the 100, and so on. Why this idea is so useful is that it aligns itself with the simplicity inherent in the metric system, in which all units and measurements are based on the number 10 and its multiples. To begin to understand this idea, let me present the following scenario: If I said to a child, What is 8 + 9?, and wanted a fast answer, the child would probably start and stumble, resorting to counting on his fingers or trying feverishly to reckon the sum. Granted, there are those children who are quick with this type of thing and, rather fast, can come up with the answer of 17. My focus, however, is not on these children. The healthy have no need of a doctor. My focus is on the children who struggle with basic arithmetic operations and experience tremendous frustration: which when germinated, leads to negative attitudes toward mathematics and ultimately crystallizes into self-doubt, fear, and dread of this most wonderful subject. The consequences are truly disastrous as many students I have worked with realizeafter I healed them of their mathematical illsthat they were actually good at math. Imagine what better problem solvers we would be in general if we had math on our side rather than against us!

Lets return to the idea of complements. In the 8 + 9 example, we see the sum is 17. How much faster would a child come up with the answer 17, if I said What is 10 + 7? Now the careful analysis of the difference between 8 + 9 and 10 + 7 reveals some very interesting things, and shows how the circuitry of the brain capitalizes on some very important mathematical facts. Let us examine these. It is indeed true that 0 and 1 are two very special numbers, but for addition, 0 is the number whose special property applies here. The number 0 has the Additive Identity Property. This simply means that 0 plus any other number yields the given number. That is 0 + 5 = 5; 0 + 4 = 4, etc.(From an addition perspective, I guess one could say that 1 is special in that adding 1 to any number is quite intuitive as we are only incrementing said number one unit: thus 8 + 1 = 9you get the idea.)

Now complements of a number are those numbers, which when added to the given number, yield a sum of 10. For example, the 10-complement of 8 is 2, since 8 + 2 = 10. The 10-complement of 3 is 7, since 3 + 7 = 10. How we tie the concept of complements to the Quick-Add is as follows: in analyzing 10 + 7, we rewrite this example as 10 + 07. We insert a 0 in front of the 7 as a placeholder for the empty tens column, and to bring the numbers into parallel structure. Now let us examine how the brain circuitry works in doing 10 + 07. The brain performs 1 + 0 in the tens column and 0 + 7 in the ones column, thus capitalizing on the Additive Identity Property of 0. This is in fact a no-brainer. Therefore, our strategy tool for addition will be to convert addition problems into their associated Quick-Adds. Once done, this simplifies additions enormously.

Stay tuned, as in Part II I will go into much more detail about this whole procedure.

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Joe is a prolific writer of self-help and educational material and an award-winning former teacher of both college and high school mathematics. Under the penname, JC Page, Joe authored Arithmetic Magic, the little classic on the ABCs of arithmetic. Joe is also author of the charming self-help ebook, Making a Good Impression Every Time: The Secret to Instant Popularity; the original collection of poetry, Poems for the Mathematically Insecure, and the short but highly effective fraction troubleshooter Fractions for the Faint of Heart. The diverse genre of his writings (novel, short story, essay, script, and poetry)particularly in regard to its educational flavor continues to captivate readers and to earn him recognition.

Joe propagates his teaching philosophy through his articles and books and is dedicated to helping educate children living in impoverished countries. Toward this end, he donates a portion of the proceeds from the sale of every ebook. For more information go to http://www.mathbyjoe.com

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