Thinking with Chess Teaching Children Ages 5-14
Thinking with Chess Teaching Children Ages 5-14
- ISBN 13:
9781936277360
- ISBN 10:
1936277360
- Format: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/16/2012
- Publisher: Mongoose Press
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Summary
What's the best way to teach chess to children? Thinking with Chess: Teaching Children Ages 5-14 is a handbook for teachers, librarians, after-school instructors, chess coaches, counselors, and parents that requires no prior knowledge of the game. Both novices and veteran chess players can use its innovative lesson plans for teaching groups of children.In Thinking with Chess, Dr. Alexey Root connects chess with skills important to academic success, such as classifying, pattern recognition, decoding, creating, and predicting. The book also introduces challenges for practicing divergent thinking and puzzles for convergent thinking.