Funny & Fabulous Fraction Stories (Grades 3-6) (Paperback)

by Dan Greenberg (Author), Jared Lee (Author) "Hi. I'm Martha Crunch, your personal fractions trainer..." (more)
Key Phrases: bonus fraction, mixed numbers, improper fractions, Cheese Man, Add Secret Numbers, Martha Crunch (more...)

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Product Description
30 Reproducible Math Tales and Problems to Reinforce Important Fraction Skills
Hilarious reproducible stories and follow-up problems, reinforce essential fraction skills: addition, subtraction, division, multiplication, decimals, ratios, and more. Includes annotated answers.

About the Author
Dan Greenberg is a popular educational writer with a reputation for making math super fun. His other books for Scholastic include the best-selling 30 Wild and Wonderful Math Stories, Funny and Fabulous Fraction Stories, and Comic-Strip Math.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 9-12
  
• Paperback: 88 pages
• Publisher: Scholastic Teaching Resources (Teaching (January 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 059096576X
• ISBN-13: 978-0590965767
• Product Dimensions: 10.7 x 8.3 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #9,994 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars These are funny and fabulous, August 13, 2003

By	T. Reinhardt "olivia lee" (east coast) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)    (REAL NAME)

Fractions can be a really hard concept for some children, they were for my son. This book, that I used this summer between 6th and 7th grade was a great help to get him clearer on this subject.

I love this series that uses humor to teach. It capures their attention and teaches while they are laughing. The book starts out very basic... although probably a bit more advanced than he was in third grade. It starts with *picturing fractions* or as its called *martha crunch, personal fractions trainer*

some examples of contents are:

great artists of the world draw fractions (recognizing fractions)
Louis Lewis, Fractional Private eye ( equivalent fractions)
Texarkana Bernstein, the worlds greatest adventurer and her trusty dog, woovis, episode 1 (adding and subtraction mixed numbers with like denominators)
Arnold guck: man or myth (ratio)

While the message is clearly math, the time spent doing it alot of fun. So the secondary message is positive also...That math need not be a drudge, that anything can be fun... that learning isn't something to be dreaded.

The pictures are fun and can be colored. The pages copied if you have multiple children. The answers are in the back. The book is very readable. I like that they use a combination of several fonts and boldface types..even within the same page. I think it makes it easier for my son to read and separate concepts and areas. Pencils are better than pens or marker as the pages are a bit thin but this book is a clear winner in every sense of the word.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Workbook, February 12, 2006

By	Shelley E. Wilson - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This is a workbook! I own 3 of Dan Greenberg workbooks and this is the best one. The students reads the story. There are 10 - 20 problems in the story that the student solves at the end of the story.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AWESOME!!, March 4, 2006

By	Heather Lynn Gaughan "Graceful_Teach" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

This book is amazing. I used it to teach my entire unit on fractions and it went over really well!