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Jumanji
Chris Van Allsburg
Houghton Mifflin, 1981
Jumanji and Zathura are Great Together
+ Awesome Author
+ A Game That Comes Alive!
+ Jumanji and Zathura are the Best Books!
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The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar Fractions Book
Jerry Pallotta
Cartwheel Books, 1999
This is a great book!
+ Hershey's Fraction Book
+ Great Class Activity
+ Chocolate Fever, Anyone?
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Fraction Fun
David A. Adler
Holiday House, 1997
A great fraction that's really 3 lessons in one.
+ Great Jumping Off Place for Fractions!
+ Fractions, a delicious but weighty concept
+ Great Book
+ oops! Confusing for kids used to metric system
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Mummy Math: An Adventure in Geometry
Cindy Neuschwander
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2005
Lesson Kickoff!
+ Mummy Math
+ math fun
I used this book for two separate lesson plans. I made a game board and added game cards based on the book. This quickly became an engaging way to count faces, vertices, and edges. I also used it in 7th grade social studies to add questions about history. BONUS: my 13 yr. old and 10 yr. old ...
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Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland: A Math Adventure (Sir Cumference)
Cindy Neuschwander
Charlesbridge Publishing, 2001
A great learning tool
+ The Angles of Castle Dimensions
+ Even in Middle School they still like to be read to
+ Even my 8th graders loved it!!!
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A Cloak For The Dreamer (Brainy Day Books)
Aileen Friedman
Scholastic Press, 1995
A warm and wonderful way to introduce geometric shapes!
As a new teacher I am always looking for good literature to introduce mathematics. This warm family story uses loving, hard-working characters to spin a tale of promises and dreams, all wrapped around geometry. The possibilities for geometric-based lessons are endless. When I read it to my second ...
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When a Line Bends . . . A Shape Begins
Rhonda Gowler Greene
Houghton Mifflin, 2001
Review from ultra
+ Great teaching book
+ When a Line Bends...A Shape Begins
+ What Can a Line Do?
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Grandfather Tang's Story (Dragonfly Books)
Ann Tompert
Dragonfly Books, 1997
Grandfather Tang's Story
+ Great book
+ another gift for a 6yr. old
+ Great book in many respects
+ parallel and perpendicular lines
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The Greedy Triangle (Brainy Day Books)
Marilyn Burns
Scholastic Press, 1995
Love it!
+ Good first book for children learning about shapes
+ The Greedy Triangle still rocks!
+ Help your child enjoy math
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What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math Adventure
Julie Ellis
Charlesbridge Publishing, 2004
Pythagoras made easy!
+ Easy To Understand
+ it's a fun read
This is probably the most enjoyable way I have come across to teach Pythagorean Theorem to my children. It's one of those special books which children will read without realising they are learning a mathematical concept. Highly recommended to teachers and parents grappling with this sometimes ...
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Capacity (Math Counts)
Henry Pluckrose
Children's Press (CT), 1995
Capacity is a critcal math/science concept.
This book uses real-life applications with photographs. Authentic and necessary examples are provided for this critical concept.
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Zathura
Chris Van Allsburg
Houghton Mifflin, 2002
Zathura is great- read it after Jumanji
+ A great, imaginative book for kids!
+ Better than Jumanji
+ Zathura and Jumanj are Great Books!
+ Zathura
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Polar Bear Math: Learning About Fractions from Klondike and Snow
Ann Whitehead Nagda, Cindy Bickel
Henry Holt and Co. (BYR), 2004
Fantastic New Teaching Tool
+ A GREAT WAY TO GET CHILDREN'S INTEREST
One early morning, a polar bear gives birth to two little polar bear cubs at the Denver Zoo. The two babies, later named Klondike and Snow, are both cold and weak, and poor little Klondike has a cut on his head. The Mother soon abandons both babies, leaving the zoo staff to raise the cubs on their ...
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Fraction Action
Loreen Leedy
Holiday House, 1996
My five year old LOVED it!
+ YAY Fractions
+ University of Arizona student
+ education student of u of a
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Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math Adventure
Cindy Neuschwander
Charlesbridge Publishing, 1997
Great Way Of Sneaking In Math!
+ Clever book
+ Geometry and Camelot
+ Led to instant recall of proper geometric terms
+ Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math Adventure
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