…To the teachers, staffers, and administrators at my children’s elementary school, especially Susan, Rebecca, Anna, and Betsy for supporting the project — this could never have happened without you — and Kelly, for your pivotal ideas of adding sentence frames and stating which specific Common Core standards the games support.
…To the students who have used these games with me to learn at school. I am so happy this project has made a difference for you. You have helped me learn, too.
…To the parents who have tried out the games with their own kids at home, for helpful comments and support.
…To Carolyn Aichele, Jennifer Bay-Williams, Margaret David, Dana El-Mahmoud, Jack Gallant, Herbert Ginsburg, Julian Jara-Ettinger, Ewan and Rosamund Kummel, Kathryn Nyman, Daniela Saderi, Jerry Shurman, Erik Simmons, and Anne Stevenson, for insightful conversations, comments, and questions that have made a real difference in this project.
…To my parents Nan and Hank and my nieces Alexandra and Nina for valuable feedback and support in early stages.
…To my husband Stephen and my children Peter, Ann, and Jessica. Ann and Jessica, you both have a great ability for mathematics, and I hope the experience of double-checking all those rules and game boards at home was overall a good one… even if you learned more arithmetic than you would perhaps have preferred to. Peter, you have a great ability to think from a reader’s point of view. Thank you for your reliable, cheerful, and helpful support in providing comments on the games and text throughout this project. Stephen, you wrote the computer program that generated the image for the 3D multiplication table, provided the idea of using dots in ways that turned into the “Many ways to show” and “Numbers that add to” games, and most of all you attentively listened to me talk about the project any time I had something I wanted to say, which was often. Thank you for all your support.
August 31, 2020