This takes the fear out of math and puts the fun back in.
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Grade 2-5-Pretzels, cheese slices, and bread, as well as paper and pencil are used here to teach math concepts. Adler's simple, to-the-point explanations and Tobin's bright, colorful cartoon drawings work well together to bring basic geometry to primary-grade students. The different print sizes and bright colors create a bold visual effect. The book concludes with a one-page list that defines the shapes and angles examined. Although the use of food products to illustrate these concepts is common at the preschool and primary level, many adults have reservations about this practice. Nevertheless, this is a bouncy, hands-on introduction.
Eunice Weech, M. L. King Elementary School, Urbana, IL
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Eunice Weech, M. L. King Elementary School, Urbana, IL
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Children lucky enough to see and read this lively and instructive work will be way ahead of most parents. They will be able to rattle off the differences between an equilateral and a scalene triangle, or tell how to distinguish a parallelogram from a trapezoid. And all this heady knowledge can be painlessly acquired simply by using a number of pretzels, a slice of cheese, a piece of bread and a sheet of paper! This title is a page-turner, chock-full of informative fun. What's more, by participating as they learn, children are likely to retain what information they acquire. This is beginning Geometry made easy. A winner. Parents' Choice Gold Award. (Selma G. Lanes, Parents' Choice, 1998) -- From Parents' Choice®
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I write both fiction and non-fiction. I begin my fiction with the main character. The story comes later. Of course, since I'll be spending a lot of time with each main character, why not have him or her be someone I like? Andy Russell is based, loosely, on a beloved member of my family. He's fun to write about and the boy who inspired the character is even more fun to know. Cam Jansen is based even more loosely on a classmate of mine in the first grade whom we all envied because we thought he had a photographic memory. Now, especially when my children remind me of some promise they said I made, I really envy Cam's amazing memory. I have really enjoyed writing about Cam Jansen and her many adventures. For my books of non-fiction I write about subjects I find fascinating. My first biography was Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir. To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedia. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there. I've written many other biographies, including books about Martin Luther King, Jr; George Washington; Abraham Lincoln; Helen Keller; Harriet Tubman; Anne Frank; and many others in my Picture Book Biography series. I've been a Yankee and a Lou Gehrig fan for decades so I wrote Lou Gehrig: The Luckiest Man. It's more the story of his great courage than his baseball playing. Children face all sorts of challenges and it's my hope that some will be inspired by the courage of Lou Gehrig. I am working now on another book about a courageous man, Janusz Korczak. My book One Yellow Daffodil is fiction, too, but it's based on scores of interviews I did with Holocaust survivors for my books We Remember the Holocaust, Child of the Warsaw Ghetto, The Number on My Grandfather's Arm, and Hiding from the Nazis. The stories I heard were compelling. One Yellow Daffodil is both a look to the past and to the future, and expresses my belief in the great spirit and strength of our children. I love math and was a math teacher for many years, so it was fun for me to write several math books including Fraction Fun, Calculator Riddles, and Shape Up! Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons. In my office I have this sign, "Don't Think. Just Write!" and that's how I work. I try not to worry about each word, even each sentence or paragraph. For me stories evolve. Writing is a process. I rewrite each sentence, each manuscript, many times. And I work with my editors. I look forward to their suggestions, their help in the almost endless rewrite process. Well, it's time to get back to dreaming, and to writing, my dream of a job. David A. Adler is the author of more than 175 children's books, including the Young Cam Jansen series. He lives in Woodmere, New York.
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angles in triangles and quadrilaterals,
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This review is from: Shape Up!: Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons (Paperback)
Finding books that address math concepts in the upper grades is more challenging. This book is superb because it not only gives critical details on the different types of triangles and quadrilaterals that are polygons, but explains how you can measure the angles within those shapes. Constructing and using a folded piece of paper as a right angle, students are directed through pictures on how to place their right angle on the shapes. Then through comparison knowing if the angles were larger (obtuse) or acute (smaller). Food entices students and the colorful cartoon-like format stimulates students' interest.
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ISBN 0823413462 - I have to admit that I don't really want to give this book 4 stars. It bored me, badly, and I like to avenge my boredom. However... it deserves 4 stars. This isn't an exciting adventure tale or a humorous story, it's actually educational - and in a way that will be easier for reluctant geometry students to enjoy. Not to mention learn from!
Start with two slices of American cheese, a toothpick, pretzel sticks, plain paper, graph paper, a pencil, a plastic knife and a slice of bread. Sounds fun already, doesn't it? Surprisingly, it is. The pages contain directions for creating various shapes using the items above. The shapes, beginning with triangles and going all the way to dodecagons (12 sided polygons), are defined and explained in simple terms. I hate geometry, which is part of why the book bored me. On the other hand, author David A. Adler has created a good tool for teaching math to kids who hate geometry as much as I do! Despite the fact that it looks like a little childrens' book, from the size and shape of it to the bright, cartoon-y cover, the book is aimed at 9-12 year olds. They get to play with their food and learn at the same time - and anything that makes math easier for us anti-geometry people has to be a good thing, right? Illustrations by Nancy Tobin compliment the text, showing the shapes Adler describes. Worthwhile for teachers and homeschooling parents, in particular. - AnnaLovesBooks
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Polygons and Food...What a Combination!,
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This is a great book for the intermediate grades to teach, reinforce or review polygons. You won't be sorry with this fun purchase.
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