Creative Math

Creative Math is didactic kit and board game and great resource of important knowledge of mathematics as well as great fun.

For all between the ages of 5 and 95 years

You wonder what 5 year old children can do with deck of cards whose important function are mathematical operations? The beauty of Creative Math are in combinations – one deck of cards provides different opportunities for playing

For Teachers

Creative Math cards are not only for playing and fun, but also simple and very useful teaching tool in initial teaching of mathematics. What it makes it substantially different from classical teaching tools is that the knowledge is being adopted and revisioned.

Learning Through Play

Practice mathematics and have fun

Do not mock

Children (and some adults) learn about dignified victory.

Sporting defeat

Child is taught the patience, if he lost today it does not mean that tomorrow he will not win, hard work and patience always pay off.

Playing with parents have great advantages

Children learn through parents’ reactions and the time passed with child shows them committment and sends them message that we have dedicated time only for them, which is very valuable for them.

Mental gymnastics

Excellent games are like mental gymnastics – creating the strategy, thinking about the next move and problem solving

Build interpersonal relations

Lose and win with dignity, idea discussing, be on the move, wait... those are all very useful skills necessary for life

Facts learnt during the game are well adopted

The ability that children with developmental problems can be included in Creative Math make these cards extremely valuable.

What do others say about us

Friends of children of Serbia

Association

These cards enable practicing and recognizing mathematical operations. The game requires attention, concentration, patience, planning. It can be used for different ages and with different level of complexity in accordance with skills and mathematical knowledge of participants: from addition and substraction to multiplication and division and combination of all mathematical operations. We point out the ability of use in preparatory preschool program, in school and in free activities in all-day classes.

About the author

Momcilo Stepanovic (1964) is teacher – master, professional title – pedagogical advisor. Employed in Elementary school Banovic Strahinja in Belgrade, he is also engaged as external advisor in School Administration of Belgrade and in Institute for the Advancement of Education of Serbia.

He is the member of Mensa Serbia and founder of association Creative Teacher that is dedicated to creative activities in teaching process. He is also involved in activities regardings seminars organized by this association. He is the author of the program Creative School of Success, wrote many books, study books, programs of professional development in education, teaching methods and materials.

In order to conclude the presentation like we have started, let’s think about Tolstoy’s words “ A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is, and the denominator is what he thinks about himself. The greater the denominator, the fraction is smaller“. What can we conclude from this seemingly complicated calculation: is it better to have greater denominator or numerator?

The creator of Creative Math is fond of mathematics, teacher who is entirely dedicated to his profession and he constantly finds new solutions in order to make closer this beautiful and useful subject to all children. When we say all children, we think also about inclusive children because the author says that he wants to provide the sense of joy and satisfaction to all children.