Product Type: Books
Age: Early Elementary School Years
Categories: Concept Books
Subcategories: Math
2012 Award
(by Jean Marzollo/ illus. Chad Phillips, Holiday House $15.95 Score:
) Newest in an excellent series that introduces beginners to the concept of subtraction. Using rhymes that give auditory cues and photographs for visual clues, the symbols of math equations become playful and concrete. For young children the concrete objects pictured add an understanding of the number symbols. Eventually children will not need the images, but for young children, these images are already one step beyond real objects. You can further reinforce the concepts of subtracting with crackers or cheerios to represent the same equations on the pages. Frankly, M&Ms and kisses were always my favorite way to teach subtraction. But Jean Marzollo's rhymes add a dash of humor that is always welcome when dealing with numbers! They say 3-7, we say more like 5-7.
Age: Preschool, Early School Years. Award Year: 2012. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
2010 Award
(by Bruce Goldstone, Holt $16.99 Score:
) Schools often celebrate the 100th day of school with some sort of counting games. Here is a book full of photographs with 100 different ways to celebrate the big day. This is probably of most interest to early grade teachers, but for the math minded, it's an entertaining book. It's also an interesting book to look at in terms of how many ways one can show 100 objects and see how easy it is to count them by tens or fives or twos. As a concept book it may need some adult adding strategies.
Age: Early School Years. Award Year: 2010. Click here to purchase the product on Amazon.com.
2001 Award
(by Tana Hoban, Greenwillow $15.95 Score:
) A collection of stunning photos in a wordless book focus on recognizing the many geometric shapes found in familiar things. A good talking book that will lead to more discoveries. 3 & up.
Age: Preschool,Early School Years. Award Year: 2001.
2001 Award
(by Stuart J. Murphy/illus. by Scott Nash, HarperTrophy $4.95 Score:
) Watch out, as the monsters play musical chairs, there's one less monster on each page turn. Done in lively verse, here's an introduction to simple subtraction without the written symbols. 4 & up. Age: Preschool,Early School Years. Award Year: 2001.
2001 Award
(A Pig is Big , Greenwillow $16.95 Score:
) A pig is big—but compared to what? Florian's watercolors begin with a peek at the pig that gets smaller and smaller as it's compared to a car, truck, neighborhood, city, and universe. A big concept. 4 & up. Age: Preschool,Early School Years. Award Year: 2001.
2001 Awards
(by Rex Barron, Putnam $15.99 Score:
) Yummy fruits and veggies are dramatically poised to avoid being eaten in this amusing alphabet book. Each page is accompanied by phrases that begin with a single sound, as in "Lemons loathe Limes" and "Yakking Yams". 6 & up.
Age: Early School Years. Award Year: 2001.
2001 Award
(by Judy Sierra/illus. by Barney Saltzberg, Harcourt $16 Score:
) From Amanda Anaconda to a Zorilla (hint, it's black and white and not a zebra), a collection of zippy rhymes about a possible classroom pet for Room 22. 5 & up. Age: Early School Years. Award Year: 2001.
2001 Awards
(by Rachel Isadora, Viking $15.99 Score:
) In a companion to the award winning ABC POP!, Isadora pays homage to pop artists with images in the style of Lichtenstein, Warhol, and Oldenburg. A witty treat! 5 & up.
Age: Early School Years. Award Year: 2001.
Awards
(by Margery Cuyler/illus. by Arthur Howard, Simon & Schuster $16 Score:
) Jessica's big worry is what kind of collection of 100 things she can bring to school on the 100th day. Cuyler has come up with a playful math concept book that shows the many ways a set of objects can add up or multiply into 100. 6 & up. Age: Early School Years. Award Year: .
2001 Awards
(by Robert E. Wells, Albert Whitman $15.95 Score:
) Put a zero after a number and it becomes ten times bigger. In this zippy math concept book, kids who are fascinated by knowing big numbers will get their fill as Wells introduces them pictorially and with simple language to multiples of ten that grow to a Googol! 8 & up.
Age: Early School Years. Award Year: 2001.
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