Fractions are everywhere you look-on the play-ground, at school, even at birthday parties! When it comes to counting money, playing games, or making sure you get your fair share of the pizza, fractions are there to help you. Add David A. Adler's handy text to Edward Miller's lively art and you get not just a fraction-but a "whole" lot-of fun.
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From the team that brought us You Can, Toucan, Math, comes another fun way of looking at something many kids have trouble getting the hang of: fractions. Although there is no narrative story within the book to explain how fractions work, there are plenty of imaginative, creative approaches presented in each fraction problem. The computer-generated artwork is very bold and bright—it not only enlivens the pages, it graphically explains the concepts within the "story problems" it accompanies. A lot of essential terminology, like "numerator" and "denominator" is explained, along with functions like comparing, multiplying, and dividing fractions. A former math teacher, Adler ably covers a lot of essential ground in one hardcover book and makes it fun. The book is sure to be quite useful for parents and teachers alike in introducing techniques for solving word problems. The reinforced library binding and heavy duty paper stock assures that it will stand up to repeated use. (Children's Literature, Dianno Ochiltree )
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Edward Miller III has written, illustrated, and designed many books for children including "The Monster Health Book: A Guide to Eating Healthy, Being Active & Feeling Great for Monsters & Kids!", which he also wrote. He is the illustrator of many popular math books, including Mystery Math; Fradctions, Decimals, and Percents; and Fun with Roman Numerals. He lives in New York City. Visit him on the web at www.edmiller.com.
David A. Adler is a former math teacher and beloved author of more than a hundred children's books, including math titles such as "Fraction Fun"; "Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons". He lives in New York State. You can visit him on the web at www.davidaadler.com.
David A. Adler is a former math teacher and beloved author of more than a hundred children's books, including math titles such as "Fraction Fun"; "Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons". He lives in New York State. You can visit him on the web at www.davidaadler.com.
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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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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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This book shows that learning fractions really can be easy and fun!,
This review is from: Working with Fractions (Paperback)
Does just the thought of working any math problems make you want to run away from home? Join the club because a lot of kids feel the same way, but if they were as fun as a birthday party you'd probably want to learn them in a minute. Surprise! They can be as fun as going to a party. You're in luck because this book even throws is a clown, balloons, a birthday cake, pizza and even nickels for good measure.
Each step of the way you will learn what fractions are and how they work. They aren't only seen in pizzas and birthday cakes, "fractions are found everywhere." For example if you are playing musical chairs and five kids are seated and two are left standing you have 5/7 of the crowd sitting ... "a fraction of the children is sitting." If you have a cake and divide it into "12 equal slices, then each slice is a part, a fraction of the cake. Each slice is 1/12 of the cake." The more you stay at the party, the more fun you have and the more you can learn about fractions. By the time you get to the end numerators, denominators, adding them, subtracting them and having an understanding of them will be a piece of cake! This book shows that learning fractions really can be easy and fun. This book should, however, be gone through slowly and carefully until each concept is learned. This illustrations are very vibrant, colorful and each point is clearly understood. For the younger child a bit of parental guidance would be quite useful and welcome. I liked the entire presentation and this book would be a welcome addition to any home, homeschool or classroom shelf. Math really can be fun ... if you want it to be!
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Wonderful resource for the elementary school age child,
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This book is an excellent resource for the 2nd and 3rd grader and their families who are learning fractions. The book has an excellent lay out and is very user friendly. I would recommend this product highly
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