Fun and Games With Math

This book is meant to be an idea starter for teachers and parents.  All of " these activities have been used successfully in my own classroom.  They worked like magic for me.  The games and activities are inexpensive and easily accessible to both parents and teachers.

It is not how well students are taught to add, subtract, multiply, and divide that counts but how well they are taught to think logically.  This book will help prepare them to live in the world of tomorrow where calculators and computers are doing more and more computations.  Logical thinking will help them program these machines to solve their problems.

Ouida Simmons is a retired Elementary Teacher and Guidance Counselor.  She worked in the Memphis City Schools for 28 years.  Mrs. Simmons had three children.  Her oldest son died in July 2000 from complications of heart surgery and a heart attack.  Her youngest son died from a heart attack on June 1, 2003.   She has 6 grandchildren and 5 great grandchildren.

Mrs. Simmons has done many things in the field of writing.  As a teacher she taught other teachers "Writing Across the Curriculum".  This involved lecturing across the state to educators.  She has attended many Writers Conferences and has lectured at some.  She has entered many literary contests for writing in nonfiction, fiction, essays and poetry and has won many first place awards for her efforts.  She has given presentations on local educational TV Stations.  She now teaches a Creative Writing Class at a Senior Citizen Center.  Occasionally she still teaches Creative Writing at a local Community College.  Mrs. Simmons is the past president, for 2 years, of the Mid South Writers Association.  While serving as president of the writer's group, she worked on the editorial staff of their publication, Writers on the River. 

She is a member of several local, state and national organizations.  These organizations include: Mid South Writers Association, Poetry Society of Tennessee, National League of American Pen Women and The Tennessee Writers Alliance.  She has been published in several literary publications

 Mrs. Simmons was born on January 1, 1930 in Sardis, TN.  At the present time, she lives at home with her new husband, Doc Nichols, in Lepanto, Arkansas.  She and Doc love to travel and have done so extensively since her retirement from the Memphis City School System.