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The Best Of Times | 
| Author: Gregory Tang
Creator: Harry Briggs
Brand: Scholastic
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  5 reviews
Sales Rank: 73546
Media: Hardcover
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 32
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 9.4 x 0.4
MPN: SB-0439210445
ISBN: 0439210445
Dewey Decimal Number: 513.213
EAN: 9780439210447
ASIN: 0439210445
Publication Date: September 1, 2002
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Product Description
Who would have thought that learning your multiplication tables could be so easy -- and so much fun? In the form of brief, witty rhymes accompanied by hilarious full-color pictures, Greg Tang offers clever, straightforward math techniques that will help your students understand how multiplication works
Amazon.com Review
The author of The Grapes of Math and Math for All Seasons continues his crusade to make math make sense by taking on the biggest of math bugbears: the multiplication tables! Greg Tang's proven methods--giving kids tools rather than rules and more memorization--pay off once again, as he uses rhymes and commonsense tricks to walk through the multiplication tables from zero to 10. For example, if you know how to multiply by two ("Two is very fast and fun, quickly double and you're done. What's that you say, be more precise? Okay then, just add it twice!"), then fours ("... please just always double twice!") and eights ("... doubling three times works just great!") should be a cinch. Some of the rhymes are even as clever as Tang's tips: Over a panda pool game, he advises, "Nine is faster to compute if at first you overshoot. Here's a very clever tack, do 10 times and then subtract! What is 9 x 9? It's ten 9's minus 9.... What is 9 x 7? It's ten 7's minus 7." Tang's text makes for a fun read-along, and illustrator Harry Briggs keeps things interesting with his computer-generated, animal-inspired spreads, with dancing chickens, ice-cream-flinging monkeys, and a fortunetelling cat. Kids won't feel left out of the action either: each section ends with a couple of challenges, and a key in the back spells out all the answers. (Ages 9 to 12) --Paul Hughes
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Cute book, but not for someone who has already mastered multiplication May 21, 2008
I love Greg Tang's books and his ability to take a subject like math and make it fun, fun, fun. I got this book for my son without seeing it first, and I hoped it was going to be like his other books that make the child solve problems. That is not the case with this book. Instead, this is a book that teaches you tricks to learn how to multiply, number by number, from zero through 10. I have to agree with the review (2 star) from the person who thought that some of the concepts he provided for solving math problems was a bit more complicated than it needed to be. My son, who already knows multiplication, found his suggestions for multiplying by 6's and 8's was way more cumbersome and confusing than it should be. I think this is a great book for a child who is just learning multiplication, but I would not recommend it for someone who knows the subject well. As usual, he does use fun rhymes, and the artwork in the book is fabulous.
 Outstanding January 11, 2007
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
This book has help my six year old understand the concept of multiplication. Thank you so much!!!
Math and Literature is a Great Mix July 21, 2005
Greg Tang has done it again, combining literature with mathematics and giving a concrete concept of multiplication with pictures and rhyme. A great introduction to multiplication.
The Best Of Times - A Wonderful Resource! October 23, 2002
As a teacher, this book is a wonderful resource because it does not promote the memorization of multiplication facts, but rather it teaches the reader to problem solve and that there are different ways to approach a problem. As the title suggests, it is full of 'strategies' - when students attempt a mathematical problem of any sort, you want them to have a bank of strategies to draw from. This book is ideal for that. My students enjoyed the playful rhymes, almost musical in a way, as well as the bright, vibrant illustrations of all of Tang's books. Tang has a wonderful way of making math "make sense" for kids. Two thumbs up!
 Not for kids who are struggling to learn their facts! September 24, 2002
24 out of 33 found this review helpful
I bought this book thinking it might help my daughter learn her multiplication facts. However, for the strategies explained in this book to help, you'd have to be a math whiz, and also know a fair number of multiplication facts to begin with. For example, this is the strategy for multiplying by 6: "Six is pretty quick to do, just multiply by 3 then 2. If this sounds like too much trouble, triple first before you double!" (!!) Now, this might be handy if the book taught an easy way to triple, but the strategy for multiplying by 3 is: "Three is as easy as can be, if you triple what you see. In other words just add it thrice, this simply is one more than twice!" Simple, hunh? I would have given the book 1 star, but I liked the illustrations.
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