Like most good educational ideas Box Cars began with two ordinary teachers trying to find a better way to motivate students who were falling behind their peers in maths. Canadian teachers Jane Felling and Joanne Currah starting using simple non-threatening aids such as cards and dice to impart maths skills to these children, many of whom had become maths-phobic.
Over ten years later "Box Cars and One-Eyed Jacks" authors Jane and Joanne have written 15 games manuals to cover all mathematic operations covered in K-year 9 as well as spelling skills. In 1991 the resource was voted the Canadian National Learning Disabilities Idea of the year and the manuals are now best-sellers.
Topics covered include number, place value, operations, decimals, fractions, money, logic, chance & data to list just a few.
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