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From: lsc@Sun.COM (Lisa S Chabot)
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The MIT Museum Shop Catalog has, as usual, a number of things that might
appeal to kids and which don't have the humdrum of elementary school
drills.  That's what I always hated--the dull stuff in the regular
books.  Maybe this is true for other kids too.  Anyway, don't force
anything, but here are some intriguing ideas:

The Childrens Mathematics Calendar 1989   (#860 $6.95)

Games for Math, by Peggy Kaye (#704 $8.95) (224 pages, softcover, ages 6-10)
[says "Unlike the counting drills and workbooks that have bored children
[HA! --lsc] for generations, the 60 entertaining math games offered here
are guaranteed to foster mathophilia rather than mathophobia."]

If you feel adventurous, there are also a couple of robot kits (I
believe no soldering is involved).


If you don't already get this catalog for some reason, I imagine you can
contact the museum at

		Massachusetts Institute of Technology
		The MIT Museum Shop
		265 Massachusetts Avenue
		Cambridge, MA  02139
		(617) 253-4462

		phone orders m-f 9-5est s&s 12-4est

I haven't seen either of these items (*yet*), and being no longer 7, I'm
not an effective reviewer anyway.  

Other sources for interesting toys are the gift shops of your local
science museums.  For that matter visiting local science museums,
sometime when it's not swamped, ought to be fun.


---lsc


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