This comes directly from Bill Haljun, Co-Founder and Director of Creative Development.

Our MathHouse game cards are available from several different general market distributors.  The most available of course is our website: http://www.c3pla.com . Consumers can go to our website and order a set of game cards @ $23.95 directly, and receive them, postage paid, and tax free (for residents of Illinois, we pay the tax!).

 

For those who prefer to order through Amazon, our game cards are available at list price of $23.95 but there are also some distributors through Amazon who will sell them for less.  Here is the Amazon link.

 

We are also available through Christian Liberty Press, a supplier to families who home school.  They also sell at list price.  Click here for that link.
 

Currently we are most excited about our “Risk-Free Distributor Program” which is designed to help organizations as well as individuals fund raise for their group or earn extra income by selling Carlito C. Caterpillar’s MathHouse game cards to their friends and neighbors.  I am attaching a Word document which explains the program.  Essentially, we charge an individual or organization’s credit card $1 and then mail them, postage paid, 10 or 20 sets of our game cards.  We suggest they sell these totheir friends for $18 – $20, saving them a little money.  Each month on the 15th and 30th we will call and ask how many sets have been sold for that period and charge their credit card @ $8/set sold.  When they have sold the entire quantity if they wish, we will ship an additional quantity under the same terms or they can return the unsold sets to us, and we will credit their credit card for the postage.

Our goal is to help organizations and individuals help themselves while spreading the news of our Sensory Math Teaching System.

 

I hope you love this product as much as we do here at Early Math Counts.  Enjoy!

One of those contacts turned out to be a wonderful man named Domenico Marcario, M.S. who developed the c3pla Sensory Math Teaching System.  According to his bio;

Domenico Marcario taught math at the middle and high school levels for thirty-two years in the Locust Valley School District in New York State. While there, he re-searched curricula from around the world and co-authored and implemented a highly success-ful middle school math program. Since retirement, he has expanded his research to elementary school. He has written Carlito C. Caterpillar Math House Games, a program aimed at the K-2 level consisting of 20 steps, with each step engaging students in an activity or game to discover a fundamental math concepts, while acquiring skills at the same time.

The background and philosophy of the program can be accessed here by clicking on Sensory Math Philosophy and Validation. In addition, Mr. Marcario sent us 150 sets of Carlitos’ C. Caterpillar’s Math House Games that were distributed with the Math Kits.  Take a look at their website here.

These beautiful cards are divided into sections or “Stages”,  1) Quantity 2) Numeration and 3) Operations. The Stages are further divided into Steps (which are actually quick and easy lesson plans).  Each of the Steps has two lessons associated with  it which are described with step-by-step instructions.  They are perfect for working one-on-one with young children or in small groups.

Next week, we are going to look at some samples from the cards and ways in which to order cards for your own use.