Named by School Library Journal as a Best Education Pick 2014, Yamie Chess is an award-winning educational toy that builds children's math and science learning skills for school. Yamie Chess is officially backed by Harvard and MIT math educators for K-8 education, and has earned The National Parenting Center's Seal of Approval and the Mom's Choice Awards' Gold Seal Award. Follow our young chess hero, 8-year old Kimi from Queens, NYC, as he embarks on a math adventure to power up kids' math skills, where the cartoon characters are the classic chess pieces! The learning toy includes an interactive 260-page K-8 math comic for coloring, topics cover algebra, geometry, number, data analysis and measurement; a US tournament-size classic chess set with cartoon-adapted chess pieces for visuo-spatial reasoning; and 12 quality colored pencils for the budding artist. The Yamie Chess math comic is aligned to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) standards and illustrated by ex-Disney/Marvel and ex-DC Comics professional animators. Yamie Chess was created by U.S. math educators from MIT, Caltech, Stanford, Vanderbilt, Columbia and the University of Arizona in partnership with USA national chess masters. (yamiechess.com/advisors) Professional Teachers' Analysis "As a teacher, I always am looking for activities, lessons, and products that will raise the bar for the children in my classroom. With Yamie Chess, this product addresses both different levels in the classroom and teaches critical thinking to all." - Jena Phillips, B.S., MEd, 8th Grade Arizona Science Teacher "As a middle school math teacher I see the value of Yamie Chess in an educational setting to increase mathematical thinking." - Elizabeth Gates, B.A., 7th Grade Illinois Math Teacher
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