|  | Author: Greg Tang
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 19439
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Pages: 40
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 7.8 x 0.3
MPN: SB-0439755379
ISBN: 0439755379
Dewey Decimal Number: 513.211
EAN: 9780439755375
ASIN: 0439755379
Publication Date: July 1, 2005
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 Early Number Sense March 26, 2006
B. K. Walker (USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I just went through this book with my six year old son and he absolutely loved it! It shows different ways to think of counting objects by grouping them in easy multiples. I think it's a wonderful opportunity for kids to learn that there are many ways to solve a math problem, too. My son enjoyed explaining 'his way' and hearing 'my way'. It's a great book for early number sense (mental math) and has beautiful illustrations, too.
Riddles, Patterns, and Problem Solving July 14, 2005
Micole Roy (Sugar Land, Texas USA)
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
This is a great book for introducing a gifted child to using patterns to quickly solve math problems. The riddles guide you to the author's solution. However, another valuable lesson is that there are many ways to solve a math problem.
I gave this book to my gifted five year old son the summer before he began first 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 opportunities for great mental math practice. Gifted children love patterns. This book builds on that and helps them to see additional ways in which finding patterns could be useful.
Math Made Fun for Everyone..... August 8, 2002
Roz Levine (Virginia)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
Greg Tang and partner, Harry Briggs are back with another innovative, seasonal counting book that's ready to challenge younger readers. Each clever problem, posed as a riddle, and told in engaging rhyme is enhanced with bold and vibrant, eye-catching, computer-generated illustrations. No more counting the old fashioned, slow way, one by one. Tang and Briggs help kids think creatively by looking for patterns and recognizing groupings. Little ones will feel a real sense of accomplishment as they begin to develop the problem solving skills and tactics they'll use for the rest of their lives. With a helpful hint included at the end of each rhyme to get you started, and a straighforward, easy to understand answer key at the end, youngsters 4-8 won't even know they're working on math problems. They'll just think they're just having fun! For those with older kids, be sure to get this dynmaic duo's first book of mind-stretchers, The Grapes Of Math.
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