The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar Fractions Book [Paperback]

Jerry Pallotta (Author), Robert C. Bolster (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up

A Hershey's bar is made up of 12 little rectangles, making it the perfect edible tool for teaching fractions!

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About the Author

JERRY PALLOTTA lives in Needham, Massachusetts. His math books for Scholastic have sold more than 330,000 copies in trade.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 4 and up
  
• Paperback: 32 pages
• Publisher: Cartwheel Books (December 1, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439135192
• ISBN-13: 978-0439135191
• Product Dimensions: 10.5 x 8.8 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #116,227 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Yummy fraction fun!!, October 22, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar Fractions Book (Paperback)

I am doing a lesson plan involving fractions for a graduate school class and this book really inspired me. With this book, you can not only introduce fractions, but can have the children adding and subtracting along with the book. The chocolate bar also gets the children more interested in learning about fractions...it is fun for all!!!

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar Fractions Book, February 17, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar Fractions Book (Paperback)

An excellent book to help parents or teachers teach fractions. The candy bar is a great manipulative. You can always make a copy of the candy bar that is provided in the book for your child to work with if you do not have or want to buy a Hershey bar. A must have.

21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Chocolate Fever, Anyone?, November 4, 2001

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crazy4canines (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar Fractions Book (Paperback)

Although Chocolate Fever is the name of a book, most children
would be DELIGHTED to contract this fever! As elementary school
teacher, I have used Hershey Bars and their wrappers to teach
fractions for years. The kids LOVE it! I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this
book to parents as a primary teaching tool or as an enrichment
resource. It not uses pictures of the Hershey Bar to show several
fractions in twelfths, but explains their relationship to the whole. For example, 3/12 + 9/12= 12/12=1. On one page it shows two ways to name a fraction-- as the fraction itself and in
simplest form (reduced to lowest terms), although it doesn't
say so in exactly those words. At the end, the author shows
13/12, and says that more than one whole candy bar would be used.
I like this book because it can be easily adapted for use with
older children by including mixed numbers, writing fractions in
simplest form, and even decimals/percentages. Also, I enjoyed the
inclusion of facts and questions about The Hershey Candy Company
and the ingredients used, as well as where cacao trees grow.
This book could also be used as part of a unit about chocolate!
Buy it and enjoy the fun as you eat your Hershey Bar!