Cynthia Gainer's creative ideas and illustrations come from her experience as an art and early childhood educator in Pennsylvania's schools. She is an award-winning author and illustrator.
Cynthia Gainer lives in Jeannette, Pennsylvania.
Awards
For MathArts: Benjamin Franklin Award, finalist
Reviews
Praise for MathArts:
"...The activities use a hands-on approach that encourages youths to be actively involved in the processes of learning, discovering, and exploring."
--Science Books & Films
"...Kohl and Gainer provide preschool teachers and parents with dozens of activities to show children that, like beauty, math is all around us if we only look for it."
--Cleveland Daily Banner
"MathArts contains a wealth of easy-to-do, creative art experiments that encourage children's natural development of math concepts... these activities are innovative, adaptable, and very effective!"
--The Midwest Book Review
"This is a great resource for parents and early childhood educators. Over two hundred art activities, including sorting, measuring, graphing, sequencing, and counting, help develop math concepts."
--Reviews from Parent Council
"200 activities explore math through art for ages 3-6--an unusual age range to target and an unusual yet effective approach."
--Children's Bookwatch
"This fabulous oversized guidebook contains 200 activities to help preschoolers explore math through art. As children learn sorting, matching, one-to-one correspondence, and patterning, they're developing essential math concepts. Add counting, measuring, and number values, and preschool math is learned with fun!"
--All Together Now
"Teachers who have the responsibility and pleasure of introducing very young children to mathematics will find many worthwhile activities in MathArts."
--Teaching Children Mathematics
"Contains a wealth of easy-to-do, creative art experiences that encourage children's natural development of math concepts."
--The Parent Paper