'Math Games Lab for Kids' is filled with so many neat projects for kids! This would be great for summer time or even quarantine. A huge variety of match concepts are included. This will definitely appeal to kids who like art and craft projects. Overall, a very cool educational book!

Thank you NetGalley and Quarto Publishing Group/Quarry Books for providing this ARC.

Telling a kid that the book you're gifting them has some forty pages of math might well make the kid turn and run the other way. Is math fun? Well that depends how it's done. If you lead with the idea of building 3-D shapes using toothpicks and...gumdrops, then you might get the kid's attention, and that's how this book starts out!

Not all kids are math averse, of course. Some do love it already, but for many, if they're at all like me (and hopefully they're not!), then math might seem daunting rather than haunting. The first thing you should know is that this isn't really about working with numbers, but about working with shapes and patterns, and reading this made me wonder if maybe our approach to math ought to include topics like these early - bring math to your kid as fun and games and maybe when the tougher and more numerically-oriented materials inevitably crop up, they'll be less inclined to run? I know I would have been.

Colorfully- and simply-illustrated and full of fun topics laid out intelligently and attractively, this book begins with creating shapes using toothpicks for the edges and gumdrops for the vertices, teaching about prisms and pyramids, but before your child becomes completely imprismed, the book moves on to drawing circles and ellipses, including how to create a giant one in the playground. Next up is topology and Möbius strips, which might sound scandalous to some but it really isn't, because Möbius knows where to draw the line.

This is followed by a little bit of geography and a lot of four-color maps, and then stitching curves (which commendably shows both boys and girls at work) followed by fractals. And trust me if you understand only a part of the fractal section you've got it all. Snowflakes and graph theory lead to Eulerian circuits and a trip to Königsberg which now has a much less appealing name I'm afraid to say. No! I'm not afraid to say it. I will say it! It's Kaliningrad! There, I said it!

All the solutions to the various puzzles are included toward the back of the book along with an index. I liked this book, and consider it very useful and effective way to introduce young children to math. I commend it as a worthy read.

I'm a math nerd and have always loved and been interested in different applications of mathematics. This book is chock full of games and puzzles and activities that my grandkids will love. I just ordered a copy for them and can't wait to hear what they think! They are 4, 6, and 8 and interested and excited about math. I know this will foster an even greater appreciation of math for them.

Math Games Lab for Kids shares more than 50 hands-on activities that make learning fun and creative,

Included are geometry and topology by making prisms, anti prisms, Platonic solids, and Moebius strips.
Learners build logic skills by playing and strategizing through tangrams, toothpick puzzles, and the game of Nim.

Everything you need to complete the activities can be found in the book or around the house.

So many interesting things in this book. From making geometrical shapes to Möbius strip magic, to fractals, and to playing Nim, an ancient maths game which I had never heard of before.

To be honest, I especially liked the section on colouring like a mathematician. It makes total sense when you look at it from the mathematician's perspective, it's a simple yet "mindblowing" method".

No matter which game from this book you'll try with your students, I'm sure they will not only have fun playing/making, they will also learn about Maths in a hands on way rather than boring lectures.

My guess is, the Math Games Lab is adaptable to all kinds of ages. Primary school kids to young teenagers (you know, the age before they think making something is only fun for small kids and they no longer are kids).

This book is very cool. My 6 year old was too young to dive in but I was very intrigued and think there’s lots of fun stuff here for when he’s a couple of years older. Anything to make math exciting is worthwhile in the world!

I really like this book of math activities for kids and was surprised to get to the end and see that it's by the same author of a math game book that I really disliked last year. While some of the activities are the same, she (and a co-author, from the looks of it) really created a successful math activity book with this one. Each project gives a fair bit of math information in small, understandable ways and also features honestly fun activities. Gumdrop geometry is nothing new, but here the kids learn all kinds of terms and history of the various shapes, for instance, and then have trickier versions to reproduce. They also learn how to make curves with embroidery stitches to learn about parabolas and so on. Lots of fun activities here that will actually help kids conceptualize math, and colorful photos and drawings make it all easy to visualize. I may actually pick up a copy of this one for our home, which is saying a lot since I am on a strict book diet because our house is overflowing with books as it is. :)

I read a temporary digital ARC of this book for the purpose of review.

I really enjoyed this book. I am a middle school math coach and a mom. This book was very easy to follow and it made mathematical concepts fun and relevant to younger kids. This is perfect for kids all the way through high school. They are great, Easy activities that honestly do not require much prep or background math knowledge. I highly recommend this for teachers and definitely parents!

This is a great book for kids! I think children who aren't a huge fan of math would love it and could help them understand concepts that are harder on paper. There are a lot of labs and activities that seem appropriate for a range of ages. Classrooms could benefit from this book but definitely seems like it would be great at home for the whole family.

This book is incredible! Teaching in a school for gifted students, I know I have students who will need these activities as math extensions and bonuses. The book is laid out well, activities are Cleary explained and the illustrations are appropriate and helpful. I like how the book is broken into sections and connected challenges. I can't wait to start using this with kids!

Brilliant! This book is full of creative ways to explore maths. The book also explains the theory behind the activities in an easy to understand way, but without oversimplifying it. The activities also allow for progression of skills, starting easily and allowing you to develop a greater understanding of the maths involved. I will be sharing this with our Maths Lead once we go back to school.

Math Games Lab for Kids is a fun activity and games book for young readers. Released in 2017 by Quarto on their Quarry imprint, it's 144 pages and available in flexibound and ebook formats. It's book 6 of (currently) 24 books in the Labs for Kids series. Aimed at middle grade readers (grades 3-7) and their adults (parents, guardians, school resource personnel/teachers etc), it includes 25 short lab units for diverse math related fun (really!) activities.

The book includes a surprisingly diverse selection of fun puzzles which introduce basic concepts in topology, graph theory (including a really cool intro to the bridges of Königsberg), geometry, map theory, and fractals. The real genius of this book is that many of the labs are fun learning... the Sierpinski triangle in the fractals section will have learners of all ages reaching for drawing supplies.

STEAM learning is vitally important to our future and training our problem solvers now, and showing our young people how fascinating and -fun- mathematics is, is key to the process.

This is a worthwhile book. It would make a great classroom library book, resource book, homeschool resource book, or support text for kids 8-12(+). There's also a wide range of activities and the labs use easily sourced inexpensive materials. The photography is appealing and easy to follow.

Five stars. This is a great book and part of a solid series.

Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes.

I feel very strongly that making STE(A)M subjects fun for young readers is vitally important to inculcating a real love of science, critical thinking, exploration, and development. The authors' enthusiasm shines through in the text.