Root, Alexey W

Contains thirty-two chess activities designed to help students in grades three through eight master science and math skills.

Presents a guide to teaching chess in the classroom, providing information on the relationship between chess and accepted educational goals and theories, including lesson plans that show how chess can be part of reading, math, science, and social studies.

Describes a classroom literacy project that encourages third through eighth grade students to read and write about chess, while also learning how to play; and provides lesson plans, over one hundred chess diagrams, parent letters, and other useful information.