About Our Books

Created and written by a skilled educator, the highly entertaining interactive hands-on Numbers and Math BASICoLoRIDE books are a great alternative to traditional workbooks. They incorporate sequential exercises, but instead of using a pencil, children record their answers by placing colored clips or tabs on an Answer Card. To check the answers they simply match, side-by-side, the colors with the Answer Key.

Children have fun manipulating the colored clips or tabs and matching up colors. They are able to independently check their own work and correct it without leaving any traces of incorrect answers. The coincidence of colors makes their success highly visible and even tangible. Parents, teachers, and peers are able to recognize children's success at-a-glance instead of spending valuable time checking the work.

These books give children a sense of mastery, pride, and joy in their abilities. With each successfully completed page, they become motivated to repeat their success many times. These workbooks are like a "Vitamin of Success" in that they build children's self-confidence and enjoyment of learning. It's a win-win situation!

These books improve retention of Basic Math Skills by providing children with exercises that use an incremental approach and that can be repeated again and again.

In addition, because the workbook requires children to manipulate colored clips or tabs, children improve their fine-motor skills and eye-hand coordination.

As a result of working with the Numbers and Math Basicoloride workbooks your child will be able:

- to understand the meaning of "same", "different", "bigger", "biggest", "smaller", "smallest", to recognize five shapes, to memorize the words for these shapes, to observe and reproduce shape patterns, identify sets of objects, match numerals with the number of objects, and compare numbers. (Shapes, Numbers, and Patterns)

- to add two sets of objects, add two and three numbers in horizontal and vertical form, and recognize different addition facts with the same sum. (Addition to 10).

- to subtract sets of objects, subtract two numbers in horizontal and vertical form, recognize subtraction facts with the same differences, and recognize fact families (Subtraction to 10).

- to add and subtract two numbers, recognize addition facts with the same sums, and tell whether the sum or difference of two numbers is greater than, smaller than, or equal to another number (Addition & Subtraction to 20).

- to name the number that comes immediately before and after a 2-digit number; count from 1 to 100 by 2s, 3s, 5s, and 10s; match numbers with the words that correspond to them; compare numbers, correctly use signs >, <, and = (Counting to 100)

- to add and to subtract 1-digit numbers and 2-digit numbers whose addition or subtraction does not require carrying or borrowing, add and subtract decade numbers, and recognize missing numbers in number sentences (Addition & Subtraction to 100).

- to retain a multiplication table (Multiplication)