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Kentucky, United States
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I’m Evelyn Christensen, a former teacher with a doctorate in math education. I love to create resources to make learning fun! I have 15 years of teaching experience, including most levels from kindergarten to graduate school. The majority of my teaching was at the elementary level, because that’s my favorite age.
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Preview of Venn Puzzlers Level A Distance Learning

Venn Puzzlers Level A Distance Learning

These fun activities involve sorting words and pictures into sets and subsets using Venn diagrams. They help children: • develop their abilities to see relationships. • distinguish similarities and differences. • classify a variety of objects and words. • build reading vocabulary and logic skills. • have practice with concepts such as living/non-living, plants/animals, hot/cold, big/little, soft/hard, etc. The first half of the book has pictures with words; the second half has just wo
Preview of Adventures with Area Distance Learning

Adventures with Area Distance Learning

Fun activities to ensure kids understand the concept of area and perimeter and don’t just memorize a formula. This book is full of intriguing figures (like rockets, castles, birds, and foxes) which look, at first glance, as if finding their areas would be really hard. The key, however, is in using problem solving skills to break the puzzle figures down into parts, and the book helps kids learn, step by step, that they really do have the ability to master the challenges! These puzzles were origi
Preview of Aba-Conundrums Level B Distance Learning

Aba-Conundrums Level B Distance Learning

Hone problem solving and critical thinking skills while becoming familiar with what’s probably the oldest math manipulative created by humans. That’s what Aba-Conundrums are all about! These 60 fun puzzles will stretch students’ thinking as they use clues to figure out secret abacus numbers. The puzzles are challenging, and students will find they need to ask themselves important critical-thinking questions such as: Did I read each clue carefully?Is that really what that clue says?Am I making
Preview of Aba-Conundrums Level A Distance Learning

Aba-Conundrums Level A Distance Learning

Hone problem solving and critical thinking skills while becoming familiar with what’s probably the oldest math manipulative created by humans. That’s what Aba-Conundrums are all about! These 60 fun puzzles will stretch students’ thinking as they use clues to figure out secret abacus numbers. The puzzles are challenging, and students will find they need to ask themselves important critical-thinking questions such as: Did I read each clue carefully?Is that really what that clue says?Am I making
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About the store

Experience

I’m Evelyn Christensen, a former teacher with a doctorate in math education. I love to create resources to make learning fun! I have 15 years of teaching experience, including most levels from kindergarten to graduate school. The majority of my teaching was at the elementary level, because that’s my favorite age.

Teaching style

I taught Montessori for 4 years and afterwards continued with a modified Montessori approach with lots of hands-on activities and individualized instruction.

Awards & shining teacher moments

Phi Beta Kappa. My Inchimals (published by Fat Brain Toys) won a Teachers' Choice Award, a NAPPA award, and a Creative Child award. My Aba-Conundrums (also published by Fat Brain Toys) won a Parents' Choice Award and a Creative Child award.

My own education history

BA in Mathematics + 7-12th teaching certification from Agnes Scott College. MA in Mathematics, EdD in Mathematics Education, Montessori certification, and teaching certification for grades K-6th from University of Kentucky.

Additional biographical information

I am also an author. More than 50 of my educational puzzle books and math games have been published by traditional publishers, with total sales of more than half a million copies. Feel free to visit my author website at http://evelynchristensen.com.