Shopping Trip Math (Math Everywhere!)

Marsico, Katie

ISBN 10: 146771884X ISBN 13: 9781467718844

Publisher: Lerner Publications ™, 2014

Synopsis

Math is everywhere in shopping! See what's for sale inside this book―and how we need math to finish the purchase! You'll need your math smarts to add and subtract prices, figure out percentages with discounts and sales tax, calculate the best deals, stay within a budget, and more. It all adds up to a lot of fun!

About this title

From School Library Journal:

Gr 3-5-"Without math, sports would not exist," Marisco informs us. You'd also have difficulty making muffins for 90 people, figuring out the cost of your hockey team's trip, or getting the most goods for your shopping dollars. Numerous practical examples set in busy, two-page entries encourage children to use computation in making everyday decisions. A diverse cast of children and adults face quandaries requiring readers to add, subtract, multiply, divide, or apply percentages or fractions to find a solution. Brief reminders of common math formulas are included within some problems. Most of the math is quickly done with a calculator or paper and pencil, and there's an answer key at the end of the book.The realistic scenarios are generally appealing and well constructed for math practice and learning sensible decision making in numerous aspects of daily life. The recipes in Kitchen Math are a little lackluster, but Shopping and Sports are particularly strong, with the latter covering 12 different sports. Old-fashioned word problems made fresh and new.α(c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

About this edition

• Publisher: Lerner Publications ™
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 146771884X
• ISBN 13: 9781467718844
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 32