Available at the Durland Alternatives Library

The Durland Alternatives Library is home to alternative books, media, and other resources not typically found in regular circulations. The Library's collection includes a variety of topics, including social justice, ecology, transformative action, and now intuitive math education as well!

The Durland Alternatives Library is a project partner of the Center for Transformative Action (CTA). You can learn more about the Durland Alternatives Library by visiting their site at alternativeslibrary.org

It is the mission of Math Engaged to support a rich, meaningful, and empowering math education for students of all ages and backgrounds. We design projects and activities to facilitate the development of a mathematical mindset as well as empower students to engage their own hand and mind in the world around them, making learning a life-long endeavor.

By offering our top-recommended games, books, and manipulatives through the Durland Alternatives Library, it is our mission to support parents and educators in bringing hands-on math exploration to students's education, free of charge. By using the Math Engaged resources available at the Alternatives Library, it is our hope that students of all ages can explore mathematics through engaging and creative means, making mathematics more accessible, more relevant to the child's interests, and more empowering to all of the child's interests and academic endeavors.

So what's available at the Durland Alternatives Library?

Read-Along Books, for exploring math creatively with your child:

The Best of Times: Math Strategies That Multiply, by Greg Tang
Math Fables: Lessons that Count, by Greg Tang
The Grapes of Math: Mind Stretching Math Riddles, by Greg Tang
Math Potatoes: Mind-Stretching Brain Food, by Greg Tang
Freddy Fibonacci's Awful Allowance, by Soozy Koontz
Numbers on the Move, by Teresa Benzwie
Fun with Roman Numerals, by David A. Adler
One Hundred Ways To Get To 100, by Jerry Pallotta

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Strategic Games & Logic Puzzles, for developing in-depth reasoning and problem solving skills:

Pentago
Othello
Quarto
Rush Hour

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Number Games, for developing strong number fluency,

Sequence: Num6ers
S'Math
Make 7
Flip 4
Make a Pie! A Simple Game of Fractions
Telling Time Bingo
Spin, Spend, Earn by Crayola Rocket Minds

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Number Matching Manipulatives, for younger children to begin learning entry level mathematics,

Match It! Math
Match It! Number
Match It! Addition
Match It! Subtraction
Match It! Money
My First Picture Dominoes

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Visual Perception Games & Manipulatives, for developing spatial reasoning skills and pattern recognition,

Korner'd
Set
Blink
Melissa & Doug Tangrams Kit
Tangoes Jr.
Puzzlelations: Snowflakes
Puzzlelations: Dinosaurs
Magic Mosaic

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Math Tools, for aiding students of all ages and all needs!

Base Ten Number Concept Set
First Multiplier Vintage Times Table Tool
Tri-Ominoes
Imaginarium Abacus
Think Math!: a collective kit of essential math tools and manipulatives
Spirograph Deluxe Set (wonderful for discussing division as well as art!)

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All of these materials are available for check-out!

Materials available through the Durland Alternatives Library are distributed through the Finger Lakes Library System, including all of the Math Engaged materials listed here.

You can also learn more about unique manipulatives available at the Library by clicking here.

Visit the Durland Alternatives Library or peruse the Finger Lakes Library System to explore the Math Engaged collection and check-out your favorite games and tools to bring mathematical engagement to your home!

Available at the Durland Alternatives Library