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Just sent this with a thansgiving care package to nieces and nephews

Wonderful and brief little book!
The irony is that I picked this as a thanksgiving book for my nieces and nephews along with Too Many Pumpkins and some vegan snacks. I purchased the hardcover for them and the kindle version for myself out of curiosity (no library on my libby ap had it)
And I found that it was a book about saying goodbye to a city! I am saying goodbye to my nieces and nephews for a while relocating to another co...more

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Just sent this with a thansgiving care package to nieces and nephews Wonderful and brief little book! The irony is that I picked this as a thanksgiving book for my nieces and nephews along with Too Many Pumpkins and some vegan snacks.

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I honestly have not found this here Kindle edition of Steve Jenkins' Actual Size even remotely aesthetically pleasing and for that matter not even all that reader and user friendly either. And while indeed I do believe that the paper, that the dead tree editions of Actual Size, I likely would have much appreciated and perhaps even loved, with the Kindle version of Actual Size, showing the genuine, the true dimensions of the animal species featured and presented, this just does not really work we...more

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I honestly have not found this here Kindle edition of Steve Jenkins' Actual Size even remotely aesthetically pleasing and for that matter not even all that reader and user friendly either.

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Title: Knots on a Counting Rope
Author: Bill Martin
Published: 1987
Age Range:
Summary: "A grandfather and his blind grandson, Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses, reminisce about the young boy's birth, his first horse, and an exciting horse race."
Review: I thought this book was really cute because it included a boy who is blind. I often feel like those with disabilities are often hidden, but this book embraces the diversity of disability. This book would be cool to include in a class library, or done as a...more

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Title: Knots on a Counting RopeAuthor: Bill MartinPublished: 1987Age Range: Summary: "A grandfather and his blind grandson, Boy-Strength-of-Blue-Horses, reminisce about the young boy's birth, his first horse, and an exciting horse race."Review: I thought this book was really cute because it included a boy who is blind.

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Hop along to the Field and follow Lonely and Chalk Rabbit through a year as they try to cope with their fast expanding brood and handle a...

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"An extraordinary book, one no reader will fail to find compelling and unforgettable." -Booklist, starred review

The star of her school's running team, Sadako is lively and athletic...until the dizzy spells start. Then she must face the hardest race of her life-the race against time. Based on a true story, Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes celebrates the courage that makes one young woman a heroine in Japan.

"[The] story speaks directly to young readers of the tragedy of Sadako's death and, in its simplicity, makes a universal statement for 'peace in the world." -The Horn Book "The story is told tenderly but with neither a morbid nor a sentimental tone: it is direct and touching." -BCCB

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"An extraordinary book, one no reader will fail to find compelling and unforgettable." -Booklist, starred review The star of her school's running team, Sadako is lively and athletic...until the dizzy spells start. Then she must face the hardest race of her life-the race against time.

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Read 12.6k reviews from the world’s largest community for readers. Librarian’s Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here. This bel…

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At the Explore*a*Saurus exhibit at the Boston Children's Museum, my 23-month-old nibling kept bringing over books, and this was the only one I managed to read all the way through in the moment.

The rhyming text is engaging -- reminiscent of Sandra Boynton's Dinosaur Dance!

It has a lot of dinosaur names I hadn't encountered before (Protoceratops, Maiasur, etc.), though in rereading it I recognized many of them from the nonfiction picturebooks, and I was pleased to learn that they weren't just...more

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At the Explore*a*Saurus exhibit at the Boston Children's Museum, my 23-month-old nibling kept bringing over books, and this was the only one I managed to read all the way through in the moment. The rhyming text is engaging -- reminiscent of Sandra Boynton's Dinosaur Dance!

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This book is a great tool for introducing students to the concept of time and words that represent time like now, later, today, tomorrow, etc. Additionally, this book can be used to reinforce phonemic awareness, mainly silent e words. I would also use this book to talk about months of the year, days of the week, etc.

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This book is a great tool for introducing students to the concept of time and words that represent time like now, later, today, tomorrow, etc. Additionally, this book can be used to reinforce phonemic awareness, mainly silent e words. I would also use this book to talk about months of the year, days of the week, etc.

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Frank and Lucky Get Schooled [Perkins, Lynne Rae, Perkins, Lynne Rae] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Frank and Lucky Get Schooled

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Mystery Math book. Read 30 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Boo! There is a mystery behind every door of the creepy haunted house....

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Max and Ruby go on a shopping trip buy a birthday present for Grandma and discover that money won't go far.

Having saved up a wallet full of money, Ruby takes Max shopping to buy a gift for their grandmother. They spend money on the bus fare. Then Max buys squirting vampire fangs. This purchase results in the unexpected expense of washing Max's shirt at the laundry mat after which they buy lunch.

With only a five dollar bill left in Ruby's wallet, they return to the original store where Ruby disc...more

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Max and Ruby go on a shopping trip buy a birthday present for Grandma and discover that money won't go far. Having saved up a wallet full of money, Ruby takes Max shopping to buy a gift for their grandmother. They spend money on the bus fare. Then Max buys squirting vampire fangs.

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Three Pigs, One Wolf, and Seven Magic Shapes

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Three Pigs, One Wolf, and Seven Magic Shapes

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This book is a good math for young readers. There were lots of pictures and easy sentences. This is the story of the other three little pigs, that lived in a village next to the three little pigs we all know. Two of the three pigs get eaten by Big Brad Wolf, the brother of the Big Bad Wolf.

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Three Pigs, One Wolf, Seven Magic Shapes

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This book is a good math for young readers. There were lots of pictures and easy sentences. This is the story of the other three little pigs, that lived in a village next to the three little pigs we all know. Two of the three pigs get eaten by Big Brad Wolf, the brother of the Big Bad Wolf.

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This is a great book to use when teaching about three dimensional shapes, such as cube, pyramid, cylinder, cone, sphere, and rectangular prism . The author does a great job of identifying characteristics of the shapes to better help the children identify them. Being able to recognize and identify three dimensional shapes is a common core standard and is sometimes difficult for the children to understand.

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This is a great book to use when teaching about three dimensional shapes, such as cube, pyramid, cylinder, cone, sphere, and rectangular prism . The author does a great job of identifying characteristics of the shapes to better help the children identify them.

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Bored and dissatisfied with his life, a triangle visits a local shapeshifter to add another angle to his shape. Poof! He becomes a quadrilateral. But then he gets greedy and keeps adding angles until he's completely transformed. Kids will enjoy this boldly colorful introduction to shapes and basic math concepts.

Now available in Scholastic Bookshelf editions, the Brainy Day Books have been developed by nationally acclaimed math educator and best-selling author Marilyn Burns. Using entertaining fictional stories, these books dispel the myth that math is dry, inaccessible, and unimaginative. At the end of each book, there's a special section that further outlines math concepts and provides questions to further engage children.

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Bored and dissatisfied with his life, a triangle visits a local shapeshifter to add another angle to his shape. Poof! He becomes a quadrilateral. But then he gets greedy and keeps adding angles until he's completely transformed. Kids will enjoy this boldly colorful introduction to shapes and basic math concepts.

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The story is about the Zills family on an adventure to a hidden burial site of an ancient pharaoh. However, the twin brothers in the family get stuck inside a pyramid with their dog. Yet, they must use math to figure out a way to escape the pyramid. I would used this type of book in my classroom by showing how math can solve most of our problems and how we use math daily to solve our problem.

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The story is about the Zills family on an adventure to a hidden burial site of an ancient pharaoh. However, the twin brothers in the family get stuck inside a pyramid with their dog. Yet, they must use math to figure out a way to escape the pyramid.

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The Lion's Share book. Read 117 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. When Ant receives a special invitation to dine with Lion, she is ...

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Where's the Math: Common Core Standards 2.MD.10 Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories. Solve simple put together, take-apart, and compare problems using information presented in a bar grap

Genre: picture book- story

Theme/Keywords: operations, predictions, data collection

Features of print: Type of illustrations: Very beautiful artwork Text density and Features of print: the text seems to be a little long but not too bad. T...more

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Where's the Math: Common Core Standards 2.MD.10 Draw a picture graph and a bar graph (with single-unit scale) to represent a data set with up to four categories.

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Similar to the story by Demi, this books introduces what happens when you double numbers, but also what happens when you are ruled by your pride. I liked the colorful illustrations in this book. My son read this aloud to me.

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Similar to the story by Demi, this books introduces what happens when you double numbers, but also what happens when you are ruled by your pride. I liked the colorful illustrations in this book. My son read this aloud to me.

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**** Caldecott Honor (1961) ****

Sometimes, the best things in life are the simplest. This is a great example. Simple but pretty pictures tell the simple story of a simple little inch worm who shows how using your wits can save your bacon.

To keep from being eaten, an inchworm measures a robin's tail, a flamingo's neck, a toucan's beak, a heron's legs, and a nightingale's song....more

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Caldecott Honor (1961) **** Sometimes, the best things in life are the simplest. This is a great example. Simple but pretty pictures tell the simple story of a simple little inch worm who shows how using your wits can save your bacon.

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This is a fun story that shows how one little girl named Lisa completes her school assignment by measuring her dog Penny in many different ways, using standard and nonstandard units of measurement.

Lisa measures Penny (and a few other dogs) in different ways, then she shows how much she feeds Penny. Lisa depicts a typical day for Penny, and computes how long it takes Penny to get to different locations. Lisa also shows how temperature affects Penny and how long they walk. Finally, Lisa shows how...more

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This is a fun story that shows how one little girl named Lisa completes her school assignment by measuring her dog Penny in many different ways, using standard and nonstandard units of measurement. Lisa measures Penny (and a few other dogs) in different ways, then she shows how much she feeds Penny.

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Swirl by Swirl book. Read 414 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. A Caldecott medalist and a Newbery Honor-winning poet celebrate the...

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Monster Musical Chairs: Subtracting One (MathStart 1 Series)|Paperback

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Stuart J. Murphy is a visual learning specialist. A graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, he has a strong background in design and art direction. He also has extensive experience in the world of educational publishing. Drawing on all these talents, Stuart J. Murphy brings a unique perspective to the MathStart series.

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Even an Ostrich Needs a Nest

Elevator Magic

by Stuart J. Murphy

Ben meets his mom at work at the end of the day. On their way down to the first floor, he has to use his subtraction skills to help his mom run errands.

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Resources for Elevator Magic:

What will Ben and his mom find on the next floor?

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Subtraction

Talk about subtraction. Talk about a time each of you have used subtraction.

While picking up toys, practice subtraction. Count how many toys there are to put away. Ask your child to figure out how many toys will be left when two toys are put back where they belong. As more and more toys are picked up, keep subtracting to see how many toys remain.

1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, down, few, first, more, one

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Even an Ostrich Needs a Nest Elevator Magic by Stuart J. Murphy Ben meets his mom at work at the end of the day. On their way down to the first floor, he has to use his subtraction skills to help his mom run errands.

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This rhyming counting book about snowmen is a lot of fun. The illustrations seem to be rendered in a combination of traditional means and colored digitally.

The rhymes do not offer anything new or creative, and are rather predictable. And honestly, I would prefer to read Snowmen at Night or any in that series over this one. I liked the book, but I feel as though this territory has already been thoroughly canvased by other, and better, titles....more

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This rhyming counting book about snowmen is a lot of fun. The illustrations seem to be rendered in a combination of traditional means and colored digitally. The rhymes do not offer anything new or creative, and are rather predictable. And honestly, I would prefer to read Snowmen at Night or any in that series over this one.

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Bedtime Math - We inspire kids to love math so they embrace and excel at it.

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When you bite into chocolate cake, it's hard to believe it was made from boring white flour and goopy eggs. Somehow when we add sugar, butter, and vanilla or chocolate, the hot oven turns them into cake. So if you had only 1 tablespoon of flour, how small a cake would you get?

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When Mr. Tiffin brings three pumpkins to school one day, his students all have different ideas about which one will contain the most seeds. Robert, the biggest boy in the class, believes that the largest pumpkin will naturally have the most. Charlie, who is the smallest boy in the class, isn't sure what to think. Everyone is in for a surprise, however, when the pumpkins are cut open, and the seeds scooped out and counted...

Chosen as one of our October selections over in The Picture-Book Club to...more

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When Mr. Tiffin brings three pumpkins to school one day, his students all have different ideas about which one will contain the most seeds. Robert, the biggest boy in the class, believes that the largest pumpkin will naturally have the most. Charlie, who is the smallest boy in the class, isn't sure what to think.

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the boy who loved math: the improbable life of paul erdos

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The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos

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The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos [Heiligman, Deborah, Pham, LeUyen] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The Boy Who Loved Math: The Improbable Life of Paul Erdos

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1. When It's Six O'Clock in San Francisco: A Trip Through Time Zones
by C.J. Omololu, Randy DuBurke (Illustrator)
2009

2. Twin Connections-
The twin text for this nonfiction book is an extension of learning about time zones. The nonfiction book gives the facts about how time zones work and the fiction book shows what children do around the world in those time zones.

3. Established Sequence

4.Strategy Application- Students could make a graphic organizer of the different time zones. This would supp...more

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1. When It's Six O'Clock in San Francisco: A Trip Through Time Zones by C.J. Omololu, Randy DuBurke (Illustrator) 2009 2. Twin Connections- The twin text for this nonfiction book is an extension of learning about time zones.

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5) Title: The Mission of Addition
Bibliographic Reference: Cleary, B. (2007). The mission of addition. Minneapolis, MN: Millbrook Press
Illustrator: Brian Gable
Summary: This is a book that helps students learn about addition. It has simple sayings that are clever and rhyming to help the students catch on to the rules and ways of addition. I would use this book when teaching my students about addition.

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5) Title: The Mission of AdditionBibliographic Reference: Cleary, B. (2007). The mission of addition. Minneapolis, MN: Millbrook PressIllustrator: Brian GableSummary: This is a book that helps students learn about addition. It has simple sayings that are clever and rhyming to help the students catch on to the rules and ways of addition.

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Seeing Symetry is a informational math picture book, that was recommended to me by the clas piterest board. It offered a unique perspective of learning symetry by allowing students to see illustrations of animals and other items that have symetry. It allows them to learn to see symetry in the world around them.

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Seeing Symetry is a informational math picture book, that was recommended to me by the clas piterest board. It offered a unique perspective of learning symetry by allowing students to see illustrations of animals and other items that have symetry. It allows them to learn to see symetry in the world around them.

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Amazon.com: Zero the Hero: 8601416239002: Holub, Joan, Lichtenheld, Tom: Books

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﻿ Synopsis by the author/publisher
When a valuable fraction goes missing, George Cornelius Factor (a.k.a. GCF) vows to track it down. Knowing that the villainous Dr. Brok likes to disguise his ill-begotten fractions, GCF invents a Reducer a tool that strips away the disguise, reducing the fraction and revealing its true form. Equal parts of action and humor add up to a wholly entertaining introduction to simplifying fractions.

Official review by MathsThroughStories.org:
There are already several mathematical stories out there that set out to introduce fractions to young readers, but very few stories set out to extend their knowledge of fractions beyond that introductory level. Edward Einhorn's 'Fractions in Disguise' (2014), a title in the Charlesbridge Math Adventure series, fills this gap very nicely. A cleverly told story about how George Cornelius Factor (who happens to share the same acronym, GCF, with - wait for it - the greatest common factor!) invents a machine, called 'Reducer' to help him find a very sought-after fraction (5/9) that has been stolen from a fraction auction, and has been disguised as another fraction by the villainous Dr. Brok. While at Dr. Brok's mansion, GCF uses his Reducer machine to reveal the true form of a range of fractions (e.g. 3/21 is really 1/7; 34/63 is already in its true form; 8/10 is really 4/5, and so on) before he comes across 35/63 which is later revealed as the 5/9 fraction he has been looking for. The illustrations by David Clark were fun and very helpful for readers to visualise the numerous fractions in the story. Lots of learning opportunities about equivalent fraction can be found throughout the book. The characters were engaging, though its all-white cast (with a leading male character) could have been more diverse. The imaginative storyline is worthy of praises, though we wish that the real-world usefulness of equivalent fractions could have been somehow communicated in the story as well. All in all, we like it! Recommended for children, aged 9+ years old.
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Recommended age range:
9+ years old

​ Possible teaching activities:
At MathsThroughStories.org, we believe that stories can be meaningfully incorporated in mathematics teaching in different ways. Thus, we are inviting you to share your experience of how you have used this story in your mathematics lesson with other members of the community. By sharing your experience with us, you will be added to our team of On-line Contributors , where you can also find our submission guideline.

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﻿ Synopsis by the author/publisher When a valuable fraction goes missing, George Cornelius Factor (a.k.a. GCF) vows to track it down. Knowing that the villainous Dr. Brok likes to disguise his ill-begotten fractions, GCF invents a Reducer a tool that strips away the disguise, reducing the fraction and revealing its true form.

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Awesome illustrations. Checks lots of boxes: Inclusive, constructive, energetic.
But the brick pallets are not stacked with multiples of 'five, ten, fifteen...' so any observant child will notice. Oops. After the first two pages the words do not match the numbers visible in the illustrations. Someone goofed. And I really loved the brick theme. The kind of kids and teachers who love counting books will not be satisfied....more

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Awesome illustrations. Checks lots of boxes: Inclusive, constructive, energetic.But the brick pallets are not stacked with multiples of 'five, ten, fifteen...' so any observant child will notice. Oops. After the first two pages the words do not match the numbers visible in the illustrations. Someone goofed. And I really loved the brick theme.

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Number of pages: 40
Publisher: Scholastic (USA)
First published in: 1997
Format: Picturebook

Is the mathematical focus explicit in the story? Yes
Is this story part of a mathematics story series? Yes (Marilyn Burns' Brainy Day Books)

Preview and/or purchase this book on the Amazon websites: ​UK, USA, AUS, IND, CAN

﻿ Synopsis by the author/publisher
Mr. and Mrs. Comfort are having a family reunion! Mr. Comfort starts cooking up his famous spaghetti and meatballs, while Mrs. Comfort carefully arranges eight tables and thirty-two chairs so that everyone will have a seat. The tables look lovely, the food is ready, and here come the guests--with their own seating plans!​

Official review by MathsThroughStories.org:
Marilyn Burns' 'Spaghetti and Meatballs for All!' (1997) is a well-known mathematical story featuring Mrs. and Mr. Comfort who are organising a family reunion for 32 people altogether, and their guests will be served Mrs. Comfort's famous spaghetti and meatballs. Mrs. Comfort has planned for a seating arrangement of eight tables with four chairs per table - a perfect configuration for 32 people. However, when their guests arrive one after another, the guests decide to join tables together and get rid of some chairs so they all can sit closer together. For example, when Mrs. Comfort's daughter arrives with her husband and two children, they want to sit with Mrs. and Mr. Comfort, so they push two tables together leaving enough space for just six chairs around the tables as opposed to eight chairs. The tables continue to be rearranged into different configurations by guests at Mrs. Comfort's despair, for example, one cluster of eight tables with only enough space for 12 chairs around them and one line of eight tables with only enough space for 18 chairs around them. Chaos unfolded. Regardless of the different configurations they try, it is Mrs. Comfort's original seating plan of eight tables with four chairs per table that will ensure that there is enough space for all 32 chairs for all the 32 people. The story is great for showing visually the distinction between surface area and perimeter, specifically while the various configurations of the eight tables have the same surface area, the same cannot be said about the perimeter. There is also a note for teachers and parents at the back of the book with teaching activity ideas that can be facilitated following the reading of the story. We can easily see teachers and parents designing various hands-on investigative activities for children to extend their mathematics learning from this story, for example, by giving them a different number of guests or number of tables and chairs for them to work out which table configuration would be most appropriate. All in all, we highly recommend 'Spaghetti and Meatballs for All!' to introduce the concepts of surface area and perimeter to children, aged 9+ years old.

Recommended age range:
9+ years old

​ Possible teaching activities:
At MathsThroughStories.org, we believe that stories can be meaningfully incorporated in mathematics teaching in different ways. Thus, we are inviting you to share your experience of how you have used this story in your mathematics lesson with other members of the community. By sharing your experience with us, you will be added to our team of On-line Contributors , where you can also find our submission guideline.

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Number of pages: 40 Publisher: Scholastic (USA) First published in: 1997 Format: Picturebook Is the mathematical focus explicit in the story? Yes Is this story part of a mathematics story series? Yes (Marilyn Burns' Brainy Day Books) Preview and/or purchase this book on the Amazon websites: ​UK , USA , AUS , IND , CAN ﻿ Synopsis by the author/publisher Mr. and Mrs.

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Meet Triangle. He is going to play a sneaky trick on his friend, Square. Or so Triangle thinks. . . . With this first tale in a new trilogy, partners in crime Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen will have readers wondering just who they can trust in a richly imagined world of shapes. Visually stunning and full of wry humor, here is a perfectly paced treat that could come only from the minds of two of today's most irreverent - and talented - picture book creators.

What Kind of Book is Triangle

I adore Mac Barnett's minimalist style and ability to trim a story down to it's most basic components while still making it engaging. My toddler loves this book, and she loves that she can read most of it on her own. I like that it helps her think about how shapes fit together, and she likes that it makes her laugh.

Mac Barnett

Mac Barnett is the coauthor of the Terrible Two series and the author of many picture books, which have won multiple Caldecott Honors.

Jon Klassen

Jon Klassen is the author-illustrator of I Want My Hat Back, a Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor Book; This Is Not My Hat, winner of the Caldecott Medal and the Kate Greenaway Medal; and We Found a Hat. He is also the illustrator of two Caldecott Honor books, Sam and Dave Dig a Hole and Extra Yarn, both written by Mac Barnett. Jon Klassen lives in Los Angeles.

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When I looked up, I shivered. How many stars were in the sky? A million? A billion? Maybe the number was as big as infinity. I started to...

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When I first read this book I was captivated by the pictures. I think I spent more time looking at the details of the illustrations than anything else. This was also one of the first books that I read to my kids the spurred a math discussion. This is different than a lesson using the book. In our discussion we talked about numbers and in doing so understood the world at a deeper level.

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When I first read this book I was captivated by the pictures. I think I spent more time looking at the details of the illustrations than anything else. This was also one of the first books that I read to my kids the spurred a math discussion.

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Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money (Fun with Math & Money)

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Amazon.com: Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money (Fun with Math & Money): 9780689812194: Axelrod, Amy, McGinley-Nally, Sharon: Books

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Illustrated by Lane Smith, 1995

Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes until your bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. Can you make 1 good outfit? Then you start to wonder: Why does everything have to be such a problem? Why do 2 apples always have to be added to 5 oranges? Why do 4 kids always have to divide 12 marbles? Why can't you just keep 10 cookies without someone taking 3 away? Why? Because you're the victim of a Math Curse. That's why. But don't despair. This is one girl's story of how that curse can be broken.

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Illustrated by Lane Smith, 1995 Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes until your bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. Can you make 1 good outfit?

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The story of Joe explains what happens to numbers when they remain alone after division. While this story of Joe the ant is sad, it does provide students with a creative way to divide up manipulatives. This story can be incorporated with the use of hands-on lessons to teach division.

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The story of Joe explains what happens to numbers when they remain alone after division. While this story of Joe the ant is sad, it does provide students with a creative way to divide up manipulatives. This story can be incorporated with the use of hands-on lessons to teach division.

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The Grapes of Math will challenge all kids - and parents, too - to open their minds and solve problems in new and unexpected ways. By looking for patterns, symmetries, and familiar number combinations displayed within eye-catching pictures, math will become easier and quicker - and more fun - than anyone could have ever imagined!

Can math be creative? Absolutely! These number puzzles test kids' ability to use symmetry and number patterns to decipher math problems in their heads. Using everyday objects, kids can discover that there are numerous ways to solve a problem, whether counting windows, strawberry seeds, or figuring out how many minutes are left until summer vacation. Parents' Guide Children's Media Award winner.

Standards

RI.3.7. Use information gained from illustrations (e.g., maps, photographs) and the words in a text to demonstrate understanding of the text (e.g., where, when, why, and how key events occur).
3.OA.A.3 Use multiplication and division within 100 to solve word problems in situations involving equal groups, arrays, and measurement quantities, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

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The Grapes of Math will challenge all kids - and parents, too - to open their minds and solve problems in new and unexpected ways. By looking for patterns, symmetries, and familiar number combinations displayed within eye-catching pictures, math will become easier and quicker - and more fun - than anyone could have ever imagined!

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Praise for Matt Parker and Humble Pi:

"Parker is consistently very funny . . . . highly entertaining." - The Guardian

"Parker has a sly wit. . . . A clever, amusing book about some of life's more serious problems; highly recommended." - Library Journal

"A fascinating and deeply surprising journey into the hilarious and sometimes tragic realm of mathematical error. Brilliant." -Tim Harford, author of The Undercover Economist and Messy

"[Matt Parker] shows off math at its most playful and multifarious." -Jordan Ellenberg, author of How Not to Be Wrong

"Matt Parker is some sort of unholy fusion of prankster, wizard, and brilliant nerd-math is rarely this clever, funny, and ever so slightly naughty."-Adam Rutherford, author of Creation

"A pleasant exploration of our deeply held incompetence at mathematics. . . . Fun reading for nonmathematicians." - Kirkus Reviews

"Numbers to die for. Four stars." -Mail on Sunday

"Matt Parker has pulled off something wonderful . . . his stories are superb." -The Daily Mail

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Humble Pi by Matt Parker: 9780593084694 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books

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Praise for Matt Parker and Humble Pi: "Parker is consistently very funny . . . . highly entertaining." - The Guardian "Parker has a sly wit. . . . A clever, amusing book about some of life's more serious problems; highly recommended."

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"If one million kids climbed onto one another's shoulders, they would be taller than the tallest buildings, higher than the highest mountains, and farther up than airplanes can fly."

Author Schwartz, along with illustrator Steven Kellogg, bends over backward to help young readers conceptualize - and more importantly visualize - how much a million actually is. He engages the help of Marvelosissimo the Magician. Marvelosissimo magically stands a million children on each other's shoulders. He waves his wand to create a goldfish bowl for a million goldfish - and large enough for a whale. He conjures 100,000 stars spanning seven pages of the book: now just take this seven-page journey ten times.

Readers will be awestruck as a million begins to make sense. Now how much is a billion? No question is too difficult for Marvelosissimo. Waving his magic wand, he stacks a billion kids into a human tower reaching past the moon. A goldfish bowl for a billion goldfish would be as big as a stadium. Even the concept of a trillion is grappled with here with breathtaking finesse.

An author's note at the book's conclusion clearly explains in detail the different calculations used to imaginatively illustrate each numerical concept. In the case of the goldfish, Schwartz writes, "As a general rule, an aquarium should hold one gallon of water for every one-inch goldfish. That means that a million goldfish would require a million gallons of water," and so on. Written in part to combat what Schwartz sees as an increasing problem in innumeracy, Schwartz has written an important, accessible book that is a must for every classroom.

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"If one million kids climbed onto one another's shoulders, they would be taller than the tallest buildings, higher than the highest mountains, and farther up than airplanes can fly." Author Schwartz, along with illustrator Steven Kellogg, bends over backward to help young readers conceptualize - and more importantly visualize - how much a million actually is.

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Two kids are "sharing" a meal. Though they try to keep the whole of everything for themselves an adult makes them share, instructing them on how to divide everything evenly.

Yes, it's a math book, but it is all told in rhyme, and the kids are totally believable. Not to mention that when they mess things up they take responsibility and clean it up too! Also the math concepts are shown clearly, not just depicting cutting one thing in half, but also dividing multiple things evenly.

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Two kids are "sharing" a meal. Though they try to keep the whole of everything for themselves an adult makes them share, instructing them on how to divide everything evenly. Yes, it's a math book, but it is all told in rhyme, and the kids are totally believable.

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Where's the Math: Common Core Standards K.MD. 1. Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object.
2. Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has "more of"/"less of" the attribute, and describe the difference. For example, directly compare the heights of two children and describe one child as taller/shorter

Genre: picture book- story

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Where's the Math: Common Core Standards K.MD. 1. Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object.2. Directly compare two objects with a measurable attribute in common, to see which object has "more of"/"less of" the attribute, and describe the difference.

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Even Steven and Odd Todd (Scholastic Reader, Level 3)

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Even Steven and Odd Todd book. Read 48 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. The arrival of Cousin Odd Todd greatly upsets Even Steven ...

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Now this is how you incorporate math into a story. The rhythmic, repetitive narrative and simple, but entertaining plot have a math lesson woven into them without being overly didactic. The way in which the cookies are divided based on the number of children is easy to understand.

The illustrations are not my favorite, but they are cartoonish and colorful and help tell the story. We really enjoyed reading this book together.

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Now this is how you incorporate math into a story. The rhythmic, repetitive narrative and simple, but entertaining plot have a math lesson woven into them without being overly didactic. The way in which the cookies are divided based on the number of children is easy to understand.

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One hundred hungry ants march off single file to sample a picnic, but when the going gets too slow, they divide into two rows of fifty, t...

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Math For All Seasons: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles (Scholastic Bookshelf)

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Math For All Seasons: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles (Scholastic Bookshelf) [Tang, Greg, Briggs, Harry] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Math For All Seasons: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles (Scholastic Bookshelf)

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