My friend Dr. Alexey Root just came out with this book. You can check it out here.
Book Description
Chess captivates children. Connect their interest to education with Science, Math, Checkmate, an activity book and teacher resource for grades 3-8. Students learn chess rules and strategies through activities coded to the 32 pawns and pieces on a chessboard. The 16 pawn activities require no chess knowledge, 14 of the piece activities build on students’ growing familiarity with chess, and the two king activities challenge budding chess experts. Within the chess activities, students practice national standards of scientific inquiry and mathematical problem solving. Improved thinking in science, math, and chess are the winning results: Checkmate! The introductory chapter discusses the scientific inquiry and mathematical problem solving standards, explains the coding system for the chess activities, and details what materials should be purchased. Chapters 2 (scientific inquiry), 3 (mathematical problem solving), and 4 (inter-disciplinary) each contain 10-12 activities at different grade and chess levels. The book ends with an appendix of the rules of chess. It includes approximately 100 chess diagrams. Grading rubrics and check lists are offered with each activity to assist teachers in assessing student learning.
About the Author
ALEXEY W. ROOT has a Ph.D. in education from UCLA, and was a high school social studies and English teacher. Dr. Root was the 1989 U.S. Women’s Chess Champion. She has taught chess in recreation centers, after school programs, private schools, public schools, chess camps, and private lessons. Dr. Root has been a Senior Lecturer at the University of Texas at Dallas (UTD) since 1999. She helped build the UTD Chess Program into the top college chess team in the nation.
Kudos to Mrs. Root.
I thought he had passed away. Strange.
Congratulations on a book well done, I think educator could make good use of this book and get some ideas out of it.
A total different approach to integrate and mix chess and math into one workbook using patent applied Geometry Chess Symbols and kids can do mathematical chess problems and learn math at the same time can be found at http://www.mathandchess.com.