Product Description

Brighter Child Time and Money Flash Cards offer children a fun and easy way to practice telling time with both analog and digital clocks. Featuring 54 cards that help reinforce money, counting, and reading readiness skills with full-color pictures. A special card also offers creative game ideas designed to reinforce learning.

The popular Brighter Child® Flash Cards give children a fun and easy way to practice important skills. Offering 24 titles encompassing preschool to grade 5, each title focuses on an important subject including early concepts, math, phonics, and U.S. History. Fun game ideas and learning suggestions are included to help children build proficiency and confidence. Game cards also allow children to develop thinking, decision-making, turn-taking, and social skills while playing fun games at the same time.

Selected titles are also available in English-Spanish and Spanish only versions.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #4630 in Books
• Published on: 2006-03-29
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 54
• Binding: Cards
• 54 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780769664804
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Customer Reviews

Learning Time and Money
The Time and Money flash cards feature 25 time and 30 money cards, 5 time tip cards, and 1 parent card. The parent card gives you ideas on how to introduce the concept of time and money using both the cards and real-life experience.

These cards teach children how to read both digital and analog clocks including how many minutes are in an hour and the meaning of the short and long hands on a clock. An example of one of the time cards shows a pocket watch showing 10 til 5; the back shows 4:50 on the face of a digital watch.

The money cards feature pennies, nickels, dimes and quarters. Sometimes the front and back of each coin are shown. For example, one card shows the front and back of a quarter. On the other side, it says "Place your coins on the spaces to equal 50 cents". There are two circles where a child can place actual coins in the spaces provided, reinforcing coin recognition. Coin combinations and amounts are also depicted. For example, one card shows 10 nickels. The other sides says 50 cents, 10 nickels.

Geared towards children ages 6 and up, School Zone Time and Money flash cards are a great way to introduce children to these concepts and then apply them to real world situations. Great product!

Disappointed
I bought these cards to expand on my son's basic recognition of money, and learning to tell time. While there is some educational value with these cards, they are not at all what I was hoping for.

The time cards are double-sided with both a traditional clock face and a digital clock face, which I thought was a plus. The problem I had is the lack of specific time increments. I wanted cards that showed the position of the hands hourly, half-hourly, and quarterly (ex: 6:00, 6:15, 6:30, and 6:45) for each hour of the day. These time cards inlcuded random increments such as 11:20 or 1:05.

I encountered a similar organization problem with the money cards. While the cards that show the front, back, and value of $.01, $.05, $.10, $.25, $.50, and $1.00, the rest of the cards were simply not very useful for establishing basic monetary value. For instance, there was a card with a combination of coins that added uo to $.79. I would rather have had cards showing that two dimes and a nickel are equivalent to a quarter's worth, and so on. There was only one card like that which showed four quarters equal one dollar.

I don't recommend this deck for beginners, but perhaps advanced beginners. I found My Book of Easy Telling Time: Learning about Hours and Half-Hours and My First Book of Money: Counting Coins more useful.

Money and Time troubles say, "GOOD BYE!"
If you know a student has a problem learning time and money, then I highly recommend these flashcards. They help reinforce the concept of counting coins AND how to tell time using a hand clock.