Hershey's Milk Chocolate Multiplication Book [Paperback]

Jerry Pallotta (Author), Rob Bolster (Illustrator)

Book Description

Age Level: 4 and up | Series: Hershey's

Hershey's does it again! This tasty book by Jerry Pallotta introduces simple multiplication to children and will prove to be a multitude of fun and learning!

Learn multiplication with a yummy Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar! With its 3 horizontal rows and 4 vertical columns--totaling 12 sections in all--children can easily begin to understand the concept and process of multiplication. Memorizing multiplication "facts" has never been so delicious!

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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 (February 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0439254124
• ISBN-13: 978-0439254120
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.9 x 0.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #218,720 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not worth it., March 22, 2005

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N. Teague (Silver Spring, MD United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hershey's Milk Chocolate Multiplication Book (Paperback)

The book does use chocolate bars to model the use of arrays for multiplication. However, the concept is clouded by the tangental reference to different artistic styles used to write the numbers. At times I thought I was reading an art book instead of a math book. The additional information detracts rather than enhances the concept of multiplication. There are better texts than this one to help with multiplication.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Confusing Book, March 30, 2006

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LisaM. - See all my reviews

This review is from: Hershey's Milk Chocolate Multiplication Book (Paperback)

I teach an inclusion third grade with about half of my class being special education students. They are having a hard time understanding multiplication and how it works, so I thought this book would be a great visual! I was very, very wrong. I should have listened to the other review on this book. I agree that the art terminology gets confusing with the math explanations. I feel the author could have explained the math in more detail and left out the art all together. I will not even read this book to my class because I know that it will only further confuse them, rather then help them. So this purchase was a waste of my hard earned money that I thought I was putting towards helping my students. Don't make the same mistake!

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not nearly as good as the fractions version..., August 31, 2006

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R. Wood - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hershey's Milk Chocolate Multiplication Book (Paperback)

I have to wholeheartedly agree with the other reviewers...to be fair the multiplication information that *is* contained in this book are useful and some of the pictures using the chocolate bar can help students. However, the art references by far overshadow the math lesson and as I was reading it, I found myself distracted and confused...and I'm an adult!

The hershey's fractions book is much better than this one. I thought I'd get the set and now I'm glad I didn't--this one is worth skipping over.