More M&M's brand chocolate candies math - Softcover

McGrath, Barbara Barbieri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0439276160 ISBN 13: 9780439276160

Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Rhyming text and illustrations use candy to teach mathematical skills and concepts such as estimation, graph interpretation, division, multiplication, factoring, and problem solving.

About this title

About the Author:

Barbara Barbieri McGrath Author Barbara wanted to combine her interest in writing with her desire to make learning fun. This, and her experience with children, inspired her to write her first book, The M&M'S® Brand Counting Book, which has over a million copies in print. She has also written several other books, including More M&M's® Brand Math, The Cheerios Counting Book(Scholastic), and The Baseball Counting Book.

She lives in Massachusetts with her husband and their two children.

From School Library Journal:

Grade 1-3-The candy and the book have similarities in their thin, sweet coatings, but while the coating on the candy covers chocolate, this book's incoherent math lesson veils blatant advertising. A few concepts such as grouping are appropriately explored, but subtraction is described as "Take the small from the large" and the borrowing and carrying of numbers, shown in addition and subtraction problems, are not explained. Multiplication and division are given lip service, but no substance. The concepts are loosely related through a rhyming text and the liberal use of copyrighted M&M's characters and candies on every page. Young children may be fascinated by the pictures, but won't be able to handle this many concepts with so little explanation. Older children who may understand them would scorn the childish presentation. All ages deserve proper terminology, which is not used. Skip this and save your money for a real treat.
Nancy A. Gifford, Schenectady County Public Library, NY
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Charlesbridge Publishing
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0439276160
• ISBN 13: 9780439276160
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 30
• Illustrator: Glass Roger