Help the inhabitants of Villa Tenebra interrogate the witnesses and solve the mystery, recover the star and save Christmas. Do the exercises and complete the sections to collect the clue stickers to stick in the grid and discover the silhouette of the culprit.

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THE VOLUME

It's Christmas Eve and at Villa Tenebra there are numerous guests waiting for their dinner. But the star tip of the Christmas tree has disappeared: who stole it?

The Mathematical Mysteries of Villa Tenebra series returns with a special Christmas edition: A spooky Christmas is a fun and colorful workbook designed to accompany primary school children in studying and reviewing mathematics in a fun and captivating way.

The volume presents:

• a gothic and mysterious narrative frame
• interesting exercises
• a map to complete
• beautiful stickers

The stickers While reading and solving the exercises, children can find nice and colorful stickers to stick on a map to solve the mystery!

HOW TO USE THE BOOK

1. The volume begins with the comic story, which describes the disappearance of the Christmas tree tip and shows who the guests (and therefore the suspects) are at the Villa Tenebra Christmas dinner.

2. At the end of each section there is a riddle and a protagonist character; after solving it, children will be able to attach the character sticker to the corresponding place on the map.

3. The children carry out the exercises and follow the clues contained on the pages. To find the culprit they will have to complete all the exercises and stick the stickers on the grid. In this way they will complete the outline and compare it with those of the guests to discover the culprit.

4. If the children find it difficult to carry out the operations, they can help themselves with the Table of the first 100 numbers and Multiplication Table tools found on the last page of the notebook.

THE CONTENTS

In this monstrous Christmas adventure, children will carry out consolidation and review exercises on:

• Numbers up to 1000
• Hundreds, tens and ones
• Operations and their properties
• Multiplication tables
• Fractions and decimal numbers
• Regular polygons
• Lines and symmetries
• Units of measure
• Problems with the four operations

Leaf through some activities translated into English to facilitate your evaluation of the product:

THE AUTHOR

Valeria Razzini is a primary school teacher who has specialized in inclusive teaching and has worked with various institutions as a trainer and teacher in Communications. She completed a second degree in Primary Educational Science at the University of Reggio Emilia with a specialization in Specific Learning Disorders and Special Educational Needs. She has published various essays on many aspects of mathematical didactics.

THE SERIES: The Mathematical Mysteries of Villa Tenebra

The Mathematical Mysteries of Villa Tenebra is a colourful and fun series designed to improve mathematical skills in primary school. Together with cousins Ombretta, Oliver and Ofelia De Tenebris, the butler Arthur, and Mad Cat, the children will have to carry out a series of mathematical exercises in order to solve a mysterious case. Motivated by this goal, they will have fun and engage in the proposed activities spontaneously and without being afraid to make mistakes. In addition, they will be able to practice not only numerical and calculation skills, but also logical and problem solving skills.

The series is made up of five volumes, to be used with children in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grades in primary school.