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Piece = Part = Portion: Fractions = Decimals = Percents

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Has pictures of "fractions" that kids are familiar with, such as 1/2 of a pair of shoes, 1/7 of a week, 1/3 of a traffic light.
It is laid out with the picture on the right hand page, and on the left hand page nice and big, the fraction on top (1/6), the words in the middle (of a six-pack), and on the bottom both the decimal (.166) and the percent (16.6%)

So here comes my question about this book... wouldn't you round the repeating .166666 up to .167 or put a line over the 6 to show it's repeating ? (I'm no math authority, but that's the way I understand it.) That's o.k., my son has fun finding "mistakes" and figuring out what it "should be," which is a teaching opportunity in itself.

I found this book more useful as reinforcement and review once I had already introduced my son to fractions, percents and decimals, and their relationship to each other. Otherwise, a kid may see the logical connection to 3/4 of a sandwich and the fraction, but be confused by the decimals and percents. Of course, that can be an opportunity to explain how they are related. :) But the explaining will be up to you... that's not covered in this book. It's more of a visual-aid teaching tool. I was a bit disappointed when I first got it at how simple it was, but It really is handy to have something like this to use.

This is a great resource for teachers to use to introduce the fractions, decimals, and percents to their classes. It really can be used in any early elementary grade. It has mostly photos with hardly any written parts but it is a very useful resource!

I continually use this pictorial book to help familiarize students with fractions. The graphic representations and supportive numerical information (expressed as fraction, decimal, & percentage,) on the reverse of each graphic are very valuable. Extremely useful and USER-FRIENDLY teaching tool! Many thanks.

Scott gifford is a wonderful teacher. Knowing him personly (my 5th and 6th grade teacher) I would like to say this is one of his creative ides. it started out as just a book to help us in math. now children all over the world can enjoy scott gifford!