I am in love with mathematics for young children and I received the book by Dr. Olga Radko and Dr. Oleg Gleizer when my daughter was five and a half years old. I was amazed to see such a rigorously written book for five and six-year-olds! My daughter just started to be interested in mathematics and we went to work right away. I have not specifically known about Young diagrams before. The method uses houses with several stories and apartments (or boxes). It is very attractive to children. Simple and easy to understand rules must be followed to construct a correct diagram. Listing the number of apartments in each row gives a partition of a non-negative integer, the total number of the apartments. Thus, it amounts to breaking a number into parts. This is a wonderful arithmetic and combinatorial problem, perfect for the age. First, I read the introductory material and then I explained the diagrams to my daughter. She quickly grasped the concept and then we worked through several examples from the book. Sometimes we used blocks to construct the houses in three dimensions. The first exercises that we did together were to write the partition from a diagram, or to construct the house from a partition. It was a nice exercise to construct all the possible houses for a given total number of apartments. Through these exercises, my daughter quickly learned addition and sorting of two and more numbers, then subtraction, the number line, then odd and even numbers and some of their properties. Later on, we went over operations, such as addition of a fixed number and multiplication by two, and commutativity of operations. We enjoyed making examples of operations from real life that may or may not commute. My daughter liked these topics so much that she pretended to be the teacher at home on her easel, with the parents as students. We also enjoyed working together the math riddles and exercises on reflection. I highly recommend the book to any parent of a five or six-year-old that enjoys mathematics, and I have already recommended it to all my friends. It would be a wonderful time spent together between the parent and the child and it would build a strong foundation for mathematical thinking.

Dr. Luminita Vese

Professor at UCLA Department of Mathematics

I taught three enrichment classes based on the book Breaking Numbers into Parts by O. Gelizer and O. Radko in the 2016/17 academic year. Breaking Numbers Into Parts is not just a book that teaches math to first graders, it is a book that lays a fundamental way of thinking about phenomena that happen in math and life. When I first read the book and later during the entire period of time I used it to teach, one thought would never leave my mind, "This is how math should be presented to children! I wish the book was available when I was a kid!" The book teaches to explore more than one way to get correct answers. It helps to develop multiple approaches through analytical and strategic thinking. In doing so, the book is definitely one of the best, if not the best, teaching tools for young children.

Narek Muradyan

Instructor

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