Download or read book You Can Count on Monsters written by Richard Evan Schwartz and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a unique teaching tool that takes math lovers on a journey designed to motivate kids (and kids at heart) to learn the fun of factoring and prime numbers. This volume visually explores the concepts of factoring and the role of prime and composite numbers. The playful and colorful monsters are designed to give children (and even older audiences) an intuitive understanding of the building blocks of numbers and the basics of multiplication. The introduction and appendices can also help adult readers answer questions about factoring from their young audience. The artwork is crisp and creative and the colors are bright and engaging, making this volume a welcome deviation from standard math texts. Any person, regardless of age, can profit from reading this book. Readers will find themselves returning to its pages for a very long time, continually learning from and getting to know the monsters as their knowledge expands. You Can Count on Monsters is a magnificent addition for any math education program and is enthusiastically recommended to every teacher, parent and grandparent, student, child, or other individual interested in exploring the visually fascinating world of the numbers 1 through 100.
Download or read book You Can Count on Monsters written by Richard Evan Schwartz and published by A K Peters/CRC Press. This book was released on 2010-01-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using a unique teaching tool designed to motivate kids to learn, this volume visually explores the concepts of factoring and the role of prime and composite numbers. The playful and colorful monsters are designed to give children (and even older audiences) an intuitive understanding of the building blocks of numbers and the basics of multiplication. The introduction and appendices can also help adult readers answer questions about factoring from their young audience. The artwork is crisp and creative and the colors are bright and engaging, making this volume a welcome deviation from standard math texts. CRC Press Author and NPR's Math Guy Keith Devlin spoke with Scott Simon about how the book makes finding prime numbers fun. "This is one of the most amazing math books for kids I have ever seen...," Devlin says. "Great colors, it's wonderful, and yet because [Schwartz] knows the mathematics, he very skillfully and subtly embeds mathematical ideas into the drawings."
Download or read book Monster Math written by Anne Miranda and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A counting book in which a little monster's birthday party gets out of control.
Download or read book Monster Knows Numbers written by Lori Capote and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monster goes through all the unusual things he has in his room, counting them from one to twenty.
Download or read book One Hungry Monster written by Susan Heyboer O'Keefe and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2008-11-16 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At bedtime a small boy tries to control ten insatiable monsters demanding food and creating chaos throughout the house.
Download or read book Monster Knows More Than Less Than written by Lori Capote and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces more than and less than as two monsters compare numbers at the monster fair.
Download or read book Really Big Numbers written by Richard Evan Schwartz and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 2014-06-30 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the American Mathematical Society's first-ever book for kids (and kids at heart), mathematician and author Richard Evan Schwartz leads math lovers of all ages on an innovative and strikingly illustrated journey through the infinite number system. By means of engaging, imaginative visuals and endearing narration, Schwartz manages the monumental task of presenting the complex concept of Big Numbers in fresh and relatable ways. The book begins with small, easily observable numbers before building up to truly gigantic ones, like a nonillion, a tredecillion, a googol, and even ones too huge for names! Any person, regardless of age, can benefit from reading this book. Readers will find themselves returning to its pages for a very long time, perpetually learning from and growing with the narrative as their knowledge deepens. Really Big Numbers is a wonderful enrichment for any math education program and is enthusiastically recommended to every teacher, parent and grandparent, student, child, or other individual interested in exploring the vast universe of numbers.
Download or read book Five Little Monsters Jumping on the Bed written by Bill Cotter and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new take on the classic rhyme, Five Little Monkeys! Larry the monster is back in this perfect read-aloud from Bill Cotter, creator of the USA Today bestseller, Don't Push the Button. Larry is back! And this time he has enlisted his monster friends to cause monster mayhem! Prompts to "pet,"; "press,"; and "tickle"; the monsters make this a fun, interactive story that little ones will enjoy. Five little monsters jumping on the bed. One fell off and bumped his head. Mama called the doctor and the doctor said, "No more monsters jumping on the bed.";
Download or read book Monsters Play Counting written by Flavia Z. Drago and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2022-06-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creator of Gustavo, the Shy Ghost presents a stylish, delightfully ghoulish board book that little ones can count on—with the help of monsters of all shapes and sizes. Run like a monster! Run like Pete. Pete has SEVEN feet for racing down the street. Count from one to ten with these funny, flamboyant monsters! As children peruse one tongue, two ears, three eyes, and more, they may be inspired to swing, build, flutter, drum, and learn the names for different body parts, too. With monstrously bright illustrations and a rhyming text, this sturdy board book makes the perfect gift for a new arrival or a must-have addition to a toddler’s first library.
Download or read book Monster Knows Shapes written by Lori Capote and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monster is finding shapes at the beach. Look, and you will see each: squares, circles, rectangles, ovals, triangles, and stars. Shapes are everywhere, theyÕre where you are!
Download or read book The Big Hairy Monster written by Seon-Hye Jang and published by Big and SMALL. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EARLY LEARNING: NUMBERS & COUNTING. Learn counting one to ten with the big, scary monster (who is not as scary as you think) and the animals in the forest. Ages 0+
Download or read book Leila the Perfect Witch written by Flavia Z. Drago and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2022-07-12 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this charming picture book from the author-illustrator of Gustavo, The Shy Ghost, a witch who is spellbindingly good at everything discovers that baking is no piece of cake. Leila Wayward is a little witch who excels at everything she does. She’s the fastest flier, the most cunning conjuror, and the most superb shape-shifter. She has won trophies for potions, herbology, and alchemy—and now she dreams of winning the Magnificent Witchy Cake-off! As the youngest in a long line of masters of the Dark Arts of Patisserie, Leila wants her entry to be perfect. But even with the most bewitching of recipes, she realizes a terrible truth: she’s a disaster in the kitchen. Luckily, Leila has three magical sisters who are happy to share their culinary secrets with her. What’s more, Leila discovers that baking with them is fun! Win or lose, she has already tasted the sweetest thing of all: acceptance—with a pinch of nightshade and a bit of mandrake. Filled with expressive and fancifully offbeat illustrations, Flavia Z. Drago’s enchanting story of trying your hardest despite your imperfections is sure to delight little witches and novice bakers alike.
Download or read book Counting Crocodiles written by Judy Sierra and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this rhymed retelling of a traditional Asian tale, a clever monkey uses her ability to count to outwit the hungry crocodiles that stand between her and a banana tree on another island across the sea.
Download or read book Count Crowley Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter written by David Dastmalchian and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2020-06-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lock your doors and gather close . . . if you dare! Once a rising TV journalist, Jerri Bartman has returned to her small Midwest hometown station. Demoted to hosting the nightly Creature Feature, Jerri's professional humiliation is eclipsed by the discovery that her new job comes with a secret, supernatural duty. Her missing predecessor, Count Crowley, was one of the last "Appointed" hunters of monsters. Yes. Monsters. They're real and they're hell bent on controlling the news and information consumed by humans. Everything we've ever been taught about monsters is a lie and Jerri's only possible advisor is a senile male chauvinist. It's 1983 and the outlook for humanity is getting . . . gnarly and their only hope is an alcoholic, acerbic horror host from Missouri. David Dastmalchian's authorial comics debut with artist Lukas Ketner--this terrifying trade collects issues #1-#4 of the Dark Horse Comics series Count Crowley: Reluctant Midnight Monster Hunter!
Download or read book Counting Birds written by Heidi E.Y. Stemple and published by Seagrass Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyday kids learn how they can help protect bird species, near and far, with the award-winning book Counting Birds—the real-life story behind the first annual bird count. What can you do to help endangered animals and make a positive change in our environment? Get counting! Counting Birds is a beautifully illustrated book that introduces kids to the idea of bird counts and bird watches. Along the way, they will learn about Frank Chapman, an ornithologist who wanted to see the end of the traditional Christmas bird hunt, an event in which people would shoot as many birds as possible on Christmas. Chapman, using his magazine Bird-Lore to promote the idea of counting birds, founded the first annual bird count. More than a century after the first bird count, bird counting helps professional researchers collect data, share expertise, and spread valuable information to help all kinds of birds around the world, from condors to hawks to kestrels and more. Counting Birds introduces kids to a whole feathered world that will fascinate and inspire them to get involved in conservation and become citizen scientists. 2019 Outstanding Science Trade Book for Students: K–12 (National Science Teachers Association and Children's Book Council) 2019 Best STEM Book for K–12 Students (National Science Teachers Association and the Children's Book Council) Winner of the 2019 Riverby Award (The John Burroughs Association) Recipient of the 2019 Green Earth Book Award Honor (The Nature Generation)
Download or read book Monster Munchies written by Laura Joffe Numeroff and published by Random House Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hungry monsters eat everything in sight while introducing numbers one to twenty.
Download or read book 1001 Monster Things to Spot written by Gillian Doherty and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outstanding features include: * A ghoulishly fun puzzle book for aspiring monster-hunters everywhere. * With 1001 things to spot throughout the book's colourful, bustling scenes, including "clambermanders", "scufflebumps" and "pot-bellied flimbos". * Encourages visual recognition and number skills.
