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Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:01:56 +0000

Inside a mysterious jar there is some water. Turn the page and the water becomes the sea. In that sea, there is an island and on that island there are two countries, and so on until the reader has counted to over three million. Mitsumasa Anno’s books use detailed watercolors to show mathematical concepts. Text … Continue reading →

Doggies

admin — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:32:47 +0000

Serious silliness for all ages. Artist Sandra Boynton is back and better than ever with completely redrawn versions of her multi-million selling board books. These whimsical and hilarious books, featuring nontraditional texts and her famous animal characters, have been printed on thick board pages, and are sure to educate and entertain children of all ages.

Doorbell Rang

admin — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:56:10 +0000

Ma has made a dozen delicious cookies. It should be plenty for her two children. But then the doorbell rings–and rings and rings. Each ring of the doorbell brings more friends to share the delicious cookies Ma has made.

G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:03:15 +0000

A is for Abacus. L is for Light-year. And W is for “When are we ever gonna use this stuff, anyway?” This oversized reference book offers a different mathematical word or idea for each letter of the alphabet. Every letter is accompanied by several paragraphs of fascinating discussion and fun, watercolor drawings. This book entertains … Continue reading →

How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?

admin — Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:34:17 +0000

“How many seeds are in a pumpkin?” Mr. Tiffin asks his class as they gather around the big, medium, and small pumpkins on his desk. Robert, the biggest kid, guesses that the largest one has a million seeds; Elinor, sounding like she knows what she’s talking about, guesses the medium one has 500 seeds; and Anna, who likes even numbers better than odd ones, guesses that the little one has 22. Charlie, the smallest boy in the class, doesn’t have a guess. Counting pumpkin seeds is messy business, but once the slimy job is done, to everyone’s surprise, the smallest pumpkin has the most seeds! As Charlie happily exclaims, “Small things have a lot going on inside of them.”

In Code: A Mathematical Journey

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:03:51 +0000

Sarah Flannery is an Irish teenager who won the Irish and European Young Scientist of the Year awards. In friendly, conversational prose, she tells how she moved from simple math puzzles played during dinnertime discussions to number theory, the work of Eratosthenes, cryptography, and discoveries of her own. Her mathematician father co-wrote In Code and … Continue reading →

Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:56:19 +0000

This playful anthology of poems introduces math language and concepts. Poets Janet Wong, Karla Kuskin, David McCord, and others take a look at how math affects our daily lives. Topics from counting and measuring to percentages and fractions are covered. Bright, color illustrations and a healthy scoop of humor add to this math experience.

Math Curse

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:01:10 +0000

The math curse begins on a Monday when a little girl’s math teacher tells the class that you can think of almost everything as a math problem. And sure enough, from Tuesday morning through the rest of the day almost every event in this girl’s life constitutes a math problem — some real, others wacky! Tuesday night she dreams she is trapped in a room with no doors and windows and must solve math problems for a lifetime. But she frees herself by putting a hole in the wall and jumping out, only to be told the next day by her science teacher that “you can think of almost everything as a science experiment!”

Math Doesn’t Suck: How to Survive Middle-School Math Without Losing Your Mind or Breaking a Nail

admin — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:17:25 +0000

As the math education crisis in this country continues to make headlines, research continues to prove that it is in middle school when math scores begin to drop-especially for girls-in large part due to the relentless social conditioning that tells girls they “can’t do” math, and that math is “uncool.” Young girls today need strong female role models to embrace the idea that it’s okay to be smart-in fact, it’s sexy to be smart!

It’s Danica McKellar’s mission to be this role model, and demonstrate on a large scale that math doesn’t suck. In this fun and accessible guide, McKellar-dubbed a “math superstar” by The New York Times-gives girls and their parents the tools they need to master the math concepts that confuse middle-schoolers most, including fractions, percentages, pre-algebra, and more. The book features hip, real-world examples, step-by-step instruction, and engaging stories of Danica’s own childhood struggles in math (and stardom). In addition, borrowing from the style of today’s teen magazines, it even includes a Math Horoscope section, Math Personality Quizzes, and Real-Life Testimonials-ultimately revealing why math is easier and cooler than readers think.

On Beyond a Million: An Amazing Math Journey

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:02:34 +0000

Is “power counting” like power jogging? It is in that it gets kids’ minds in great math shape. Professor X. P. Nential teaches kids to count using exponents of 10. From 1, kids power count to a googol (10 with 100 zeros) and beyond. Sidebars with real-world fascinating facts make these large numbers meaningful.

One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:57:06 +0000

In return for a good deed, young Rani asks the greedy raja for just one grain of rice — doubled every day for 30 days. In a month she collects more than one billion grains of rice, enough to save the starving people of her village and to teach the raja a thing or two … Continue reading →

Red Riding Hood’s Math Adventure

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:58:33 +0000

Red Riding Hood is taking a basket of 12 cookies to Grandma, but along the way she encounters nursery rhyme and fairy tale characters who request some of the goodies. At each character’s request, the reader turns the wheel and chooses the amount of cookies (0, 1, or 2) to share and, at the end, figures out how many cookies are left for Grandma. This interactive book can be read several times with many different outcomes. Give children actual or make- believe cookies (template provided in book) to figure out the math as you read the book aloud. Suggestions for acting out this math adventure and math games are also included.

Safari Park

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:59:53 +0000

Stuart J. Murphy believes that if math had been explained to him as a child using illustrations, he would have understood math concepts more easily. So he has come up with his own series of math storybooks (divided into three levels) with pictures by well-known children’s book illustrators. In Safari Park, a Level 3 book in this series (ages 7 and up), a boy Paul, his sister, and three cousins have 20 tickets each to spend at the newly opened Safari Park. The Tiger Wheel costs 4 tickets, the Bat Tunnel 2, and so on. How many rides can each child enjoy? This becomes even more difficult to figure out when Paul loses all of his tickets and the others must each share one ride with him. Turn to the back of this book for related activities and games.

Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math Adventure

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:00:32 +0000

King Arthur, his wife Lady Di of Ameter, and their son, Radius, problem solve to find the right shape for a table that the king uses to discuss matters with his knights. This clever tale of geometry has simple diagrams that reinforce math concepts, including circumference, diameter, and Pi.

Summer Skills Daily Activity Workbook: Grade 1

admin — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:08:28 +0000

The Summer Skills Daily Activity Workbook series is dedicated to helping children not only review and keep fresh the skills they have learned throughout the previous school year, but also prepare for the new skills they will encounter at the beginning of the next school year. The first half of each book focuses on reviewing previously learned materials, and the second half introduces new concepts and terms, complete with instructions and examples for better understanding of new material.

Each workbook follows a 90-day format, alternating between math and reading/writing activities each day. These activities are presented using full-color illustrations and involve:

Puzzles
Mazes
Math applications
Word finds
Reading comprehension
Vocabulary practice

Summer Skills Daily Activity Workbook: Grade 1

admin — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:20:12 +0000

Puzzles
Mazes
Math applications
Word finds
Reading comprehension
Vocabulary practice

Summer Skills Daily Activity Workbook: Grade 2

admin — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:02:26 +0000

Each workbook follows a 90-day format, alternating between math and reading/writing activities each day. These activities are presented using full-color illustrations and involve:

Puzzles
Mazes
Math applications
Word finds
Reading comprehension

Vocabulary practice

Summer Skills Daily Activity Workbook: Grade K

admin — Wed, 06 May 2009 11:14:11 +0000

Each workbook follows a 90-day format, alternating between math and reading/writing activities each day. These activities are presented using full-color illustrations and involve:

Puzzles
Mazes
Math applications
Word finds
Reading comprehension
Vocabulary practice

Summer Skills: Grade 1

admin — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:40:12 +0000

School is out for the summer, but keeping your child engaged in learning through the break will prepare him or her to excel during the next school year. This Summer Skills workbook reviews topics learned in pre-school and introduces skills that will be introduced in the kindergarden, helping your child to transition seamlessly from one grade to the next. Children will love the beautiful full-color illustrations and interesting activities on each page, and he or she will feel more confident about learning when school is back in session! This book series includes:

Math, science, social studies, and language arts activities to keep your child entertained and interested in learning all summer long.
“Fast Fact” and “On Your Own” features that build upon the theme or activity on a page, helping to expand your child’s understanding of a topic.
A summer reading list and suggested activities to continue the learning long after the book is completed.
Perforations that make removing pages easy.

Summer Skills: Grade 2

admin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 11:33:44 +0000

Math, science, social studies, and language arts activities to keep your child entertained and interested in learning all summer long.
“Fast Fact” and “On Your Own” features that build upon the theme or activity on a page, helping to expand your child’s understanding of a topic.
A summer reading list and suggested activities to continue the learning long after the book is completed.
Perforations that make removing pages easy.

Summer Skills: Grade 3

admin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:43:56 +0000

Math, science, social studies, and language arts activities to keep your child entertained and interested in learning all summer long.
“Fast Fact” and “On Your Own” features that build upon the theme or activity on a page, helping to expand your child’s understanding of a topic.
A summer reading list and suggested activities to continue the learning long after the book is completed.
Perforations that make removing pages easy.

Summer Skills: Grade 4

admin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 11:47:58 +0000

Keep Learning Alive All Summer Long!
School is out for the summer, but keeping your child engaged in learning through the break will prepare him or her to excel during the next school year. This Summer Skills workbook reviews topics learned in pre-school and introduces skills that will be introduced in the kindergarden, helping your child to transition seamlessly from one grade to the next. Children will love the beautiful full-color illustrations and interesting activities on each page, and he or she will feel more confident about learning when school is back in session!
This book series includes:

Math, science, social studies, and language arts activities to keep your child entertained and interested in learning all summer long.
“Fast Fact” and “On Your Own” features that build upon the theme or activity on a page, helping to expand your child’s understanding of a topic.
A summer reading list and suggested activities to continue the learning long after the book is completed.
Perforations that make removing pages easy.

Summer Skills: Grade 4

admin — Wed, 06 May 2009 12:06:18 +0000

Math, science, social studies, and language arts activities to keep your child entertained and interested in learning all summer long.
“Fast Fact” and “On Your Own” features that build upon the theme or activity on a page, helping to expand your child’s understanding of a topic.
A summer reading list and suggested activities to continue the learning long after the book is completed.
Perforations that make removing pages easy.

Summer Skills: Grade 5

admin — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 11:53:38 +0000

Math, science, social studies, and language arts activities to keep your child entertained and interested in learning all summer long.
“Fast Fact” and “On Your Own” features that build upon the theme or activity on a page, helping to expand your child’s understanding of a topic.
A summer reading list and suggested activities to continue the learning long after the book is completed.
Perforations that make removing pages easy.

Summer Skills: Grade K

admin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:05:27 +0000

Math, science, social studies, and language arts activities to keep your child entertained and interested in learning all summer long.
“Fast Fact” and “On Your Own” features that build upon the theme or activity on a page, helping to expand your child’s understanding of a topic.
A summer reading list and suggested activities to continue the learning long after the book is completed.
Perforations that make removing pages easy.

The Coin Counting Book

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:57:54 +0000

How many pennies in a nickel? What combination of coins equals a dollar? Catchy rhymes and photographs of real money teach children about coin denominations, grouping, and counting. Coins are shown in sets with written equations so students can readily see equivalents. Adding real coins while working through this book will add real meaning to … Continue reading →

The Grapes of Math

admin — Mon, 17 Sep 2007 21:28:00 +0000

This clever book is told in rhymes that give clues for solving math problems quickly and innovatively. Tang makes looking for patterns and regrouping numbers both fun and challenging. Strategies for solving these problems are found in the back.

The Greedy Triangle

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 19:59:17 +0000

A busy triangle gets tired of holding up roofs, being slices of pie and halves of sandwiches, and even of doing its favorite activity — slipping into place when people put their hands on their hips. It thinks life would be more interesting if the local shapeshifter gave it one more side and one more angle. And so the triangle is transformed into a quadrilateral. Although as a quadrilateral it is a television screen, a window frame, and more, it soon grows tired of that shape, too. Each time it tires of its shape, it asks the shapeshifter to add another side and angle. The triangle successively becomes a pentagon, hexagon, and heptagon . . . until it has so many sides it doesn’t know which side is up! Not surprisingly, it asks the shape-shifter for its old shape back and then is content to be a triangle again. The colorful illustrations and engaging text make a great introduction to shapes and geometry. A guide at the end includes background information and suggestions for extending children’s learning.

The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure

admin — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 20:04:54 +0000

A textbook in disguise, this fascinating volume embraces both the math enthusiast and the clock-watching math victim holding his breath until the period is over. It’s not Alice in Wonderland, but it has that feel when Robert, who is no math wizard, has recurrent dreams of a number devil set on teaching him math concepts. In a series of 12 dreams Robert discovers the amazing world of numbers from the meaning of zero to numbers that expand without end. This international best-seller adds fun and adventure to math and teaches readers about logic in the process.

Water Hole

admin — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 03:54:15 +0000

In the tradition of his best-selling alphabet book, Animalia, author and illustrator GraemeBase takes young readers on an exhilarating journey of discovery with an ingenious fusion of counting book, puzzle book, storybook, and art book. From the plains of Africa and the jungles of the Amazon to the woodlands of North America and the deserts of outback Australia, the animals come together to drink from the water hole. But their water supply is diminishing. What’s going on? Each sumptuous landscape illustration conceals hidden animal pictures for readers to find as they count the animals that visit the water hole and try to solve the mystery: will the animals come back or is their water source gone forever?