Introducing Creative Teaching Associates!

Children are the future of our country.

With this in mind, Creative Teaching Associates has developed a variety of learning games and activities to help parents and teachers transform learning into a meaningful and enriching experience that will prepare young people for life. Games from Creative Teaching Associates are versatile and can be easily adapted to special education, gifted programs, and adult rehabilitation. They're great to play at home too!

Our History:

In 1971 Creative Teaching Associates was started by three educators, Larry Ecklund, Harold Silvani, and Arthur Wiebe. They each had a desire to help teachers help children to become more efficient learners, and to help children enjoy learning. Games relating to real-life experiences in a child's world was the answer. Great care goes into each step that is taken to design a CTA game. Not only are they fun to play, but every game must meet a set of standards before it can become a CTA activity. It must be educationally sound, colorfully designed in an easy to use format, and reasonably priced. Overall, it must be adaptable to the curriculum needs of todays teachers.

Educational Learning Formats

The underlined titles will take you to examples of our learning formats. For a detailed list of our products by subject matter, you will find subject headings on the left side of each product page located at our Online Store. Click on the underlined title and a detailed product listing will appear!

Learning Center Activities

Our games are fun, and with a variety of game formats available, parents and teachers can set up learning centers in the home or classroom to meet children's individual needs. Learning centers provide a versatile way to work on specific skills in a small group.

Whole Class Activities

We've made an effort to provide a wide variety of activities that involve the whole class. Teachers can use a familiar format like bingo to reinforce basic math, or language arts skills. Our products can be adapted by the teacher to meet specific classroom time restraints.

Family Activities

Creative Teaching Associates provides many wonderful games that can be used at home as a supplement to a child's public, private, or home school curriculum. With our easy-to-learn formats, parents can help their children succeed in math, science, and language development skills. Parents can have an active part in their children's education and have fun while they're doing it !

Game Formats

Each product that we develop at Creative Teaching Associates must be in a familiar, easy-to-use format. You will find these game formats on our product pages as you visit our Online Store.

Activity Card Format

Activity cards are a great way to introduce concepts in patterning, attributes, beginning number recognition, and phonics while children work individually at their own ability level, or in small groups. Black-line masters are included in most sets so that they can be duplicated and adapted to a variety of curricula.

Domino/Match Wits Format

Playing dominoes is a great way to reinforce a variety of math skills. Players find matching combinations as they would in a regular game of dominoes, only with our dominoes they match fractions... clock faces... basic math facts...attribute colors, shapes & sizes... money... and percentages rather than plain dots.

Match Wits are quadrominoes - 4-sided dominoes - that provide a challenge for those who enjoy a challenge! Match Wits allow players to match all four sides of the card while working on basic and advanced problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, telling time, money, fractions, states and capitals, and more!

Board Game Format

Board games are fun to play and we've developed learning activities in a familiar board game format. Players learn how to manage money using consumer math and problem solving skills as they play real-life experience games like Grocery Cart, Department Store Math, Math Around the Home, Budget, and Bank Account.

Vocabulary Builder, Spelling Bee, Fun With Language Arts, and many more exciting language development games can also be found in our gameboard format.

Tic Tac Toe

Tic Tac Toe games offer versatile, action-packed competition in a small package. Players become more proficient as they test their skills in basic math facts by challenging their opponent to a quick game of tic tac toe. Each game includes a spinner and playing cards at 3 levels of difficulty.

Bingo and Overhead Projector Format

Each of our bingo and overhead projector games reinforce math and language skills so that an entire class can successfully learn together. Other full class activities include Super Subtractor, Addingo, Fascinating Factors, Super Multo, Block Out, The Four Square Series and many more exciting activities.

Sports Games

Here's an exciting way to use America's favorite pastime... sports...to get kids motivated to learn. Baseball Card Grand Slam, Slugger, and Play Ball Multiplication center around baseball. Factor Football, and Addition Sum Bowl, focus on football, Basic addition facts are used to play Championship Basketball, and Olympics activities are covered in Fraction and Decimal Olympics. These action-packed games can be played by two individuals, or by two teams. Along with meeting a variety of educational needs. these games are fun to play.

You may reach us at: 5629 E. Westover Ave. Fresno, CA 93727 - Phone: 559-291-6626 or 800-767-4282

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