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| Author: Greg Tang
Creator: Harry Briggs
Brand: BIGTOFFICE
Category: Book
List Price: $6.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  22 reviews
Sales Rank: 20833
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 40
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.7 x 0.1
MPN: SB-0439598400
ISBN: 0439598400
Dewey Decimal Number: 793.74
EAN: 9780439598408
ASIN: 0439598400
Publication Date: June 1, 2004
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| Customer Reviews:
 Great idea August 2, 2005
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
This book is wonderful. Finally there are great books that celebrate math!! This is an awesome book for older children. I'd say at least 1st grade (some Kindergartener would really enjoy it). However, done properly, it's too time consuming for a preschooler. My 3 year old, even though he's very bright, could only hang for 3 pages doing it the right way. After that we just kind of made up our own *way*. Don't be discouraged to buy it, though, because no matter what the age, you can never encourage math enough!!! Great book, great buy!!
 More Riddles, Patterns, and Problem Solving July 15, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
This great book provides the opportunity for children to enjoy mental math challenges. The riddles guide the reader to the author's solution. However, our son enjoyed looking for patterns and using his own clever ideas to quickly solve the problems. I gave this book to my six year old son the summer before he began second grade. He loved the rhymes and the pictures. He especially liked finding clever ways to count the objects without counting one by one. We made a family game of solving each riddle, working to see who would solve it first. Then we shared our strategies and reviewed the author's strategy which is presented in the back of the book.
I highly recommend this book! It provides good mental math practice in a fun way. It also reinforces the fact that there are many ways to solve a problem. Gifted children love patterns. This book builds on that and helps them to see additional ways in which finding patterns could be useful.
Pima math 147 March 12, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I read this book to a 4th grader. She loved the book. She thought the riddles were funny and we solved them together. I loved that the different ways to solve the riddle are in the back of the book. We would read the riddle together, talk about the answer, and then look at the different ways we could have solved it. This was a fabulous book! The riddles are clever, and cute and its a great way to challenge kids to think creatively!
 PCC Student Review March 11, 2005
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
My audience was a nephew who is currently in the 4th grade. Overall he found the book to be visually appealing and easy to follow. The math involved in the book seemed to be below his level of math comprehension as he was able to correctly and quickly see the patterns of the shapes and was able to come up with various way to find the correct answer. The patterns became easily visible to him, but only after one or two examples were done, from there on out he breezed through it. The rhymes placed a smile upon his face and I was asked to read the book one more time. Perhaps this book was a little above him, but for the target school year group of 1-4, its not at all bad to aid children in conceptualizing a typical problem in a different manner to ease solution finding.
MAT 146 Review April 21, 2004
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
(...) I read The Grapes of Math to a resource room class, during their math hour. The kids thought that the riddles were silly, but did not really understand the concept, that the riddles had answers to them. There were grade levels first through fifth in the class. I think that the kids would have enjoyed the book more if they were up to speed with the math terms in the book. When I was reading the book, I had to stop and explain the math vocabulary for reach riddle. I enjoyed the book, but I would use it for an older set of students.
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