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You Can Count on Monsters: The First 100 Numbers and Their Characters
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- Condition
- ISBN
- 9781568815787
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- You Can Count on Monsters : the First 100 Numbers and Their Characters
- Publisher
- A + K Peter's, The Limited
- Genre
- Mathematics, Juvenile Nonfiction
- Topic
- Functional Analysis, General, concepts / Counting & Numbers
- Item Weight
- 18.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 244 Pages
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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 GuyKeith 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."
Product Identifiers
Publisher
A + K Peter's, The Limited
ISBN-10
1568815786
ISBN-13
9781568815787
eBay Product ID (ePID)
79713810
Product Key Features
Book Title
You Can Count on Monsters : the First 100 Numbers and Their Characters
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Functional Analysis, General, concepts / Counting & Numbers
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Mathematics, Juvenile Nonfiction
Number of Pages
244 Pages
Dimensions
Item Weight
18.4 Oz
Additional Product Features
Age Range
4-8
Lc Classification Number
Qa51.S39 2010
Grade from
Preschool
Grade to
Third Grade
Reviews
This delightful book is a result of the author's desire to teach his daughters about primes and factorization. ... The whole thing is a lot of fun. The book is well produced and nice to look at. -- Fernando Q. Gouvea, MAA Reviews, March 2010This compact, innovative book counts to 100 using prime numbers represented as "monsters," each with identifying characteristics (two resembles a bee with two buggy eyes, and three is an angry-looking triangular creature). The book opens with explanations of multiplication, prime and composite numbers, and factor trees, then moves on to a list of numbers. Each prime number looks unique, while composite numbers are represented by scenes involving their prime monsters (eight is illustrated as three of the beelike twos, i.e., two times two times two. Readers may have difficulty deciphering the pictures, which come to resemble little works of abstract geometric art. But especially for creative learners, visualizing the roles each monster plays may lead to deeper number sense. Ages 4-8. -- Publishers Weekly, March 2010Intended for elementary-age children, You Can Count on Monsters first explains the basic ideas of multiplication, prime and composite numbers, and factoring. Then for each number, from one through 100, the book's left-hand pages depict the number broken down into its prime factors using dots and factor trees, and on the facing page, there is a playful monster that relates to the number. The monsters are designed to help children understand the building blocks of numbers. Each prime number is represented by a different monster. ... For each composite number, the scene depicted involves the monsters for its prime factors. ... Young readers can have fun figuring out how the monster is related to its prime numbers. -- Katherine Federici Greenwood, Princeton Alumni Weekly Blog, March 2010A K Peters is pleased to announce that You Can Count on Monsters: The First 100 Numbers and Their Characters by Richard Schwartz has won Best of Category for juvenile books at Bookbuilder's 53rd Annual New England Book Show. This show recognizes the year's most outstanding work by New England publishers, printers, and graphic designers. Judges praised the book's freshness, beautiful illustrations, and unique way of looking at numbers, and called it "a book for kids and parents." -- Bookbuilders of Boston, May 2010You Can Count on Monsters has gone international! In the blog Images des Mathématiques , professor of mathematics at the University of Geneva Pierre de la Harpe writes "Prime numbers are like Antigone, Oedipus, or the Olympic Games: they already interested Euclid, Sophocles and Pindar, and they are always at the heart of the news ... Thus, after a near infinite number of books devoted [to them], a mathematician from the East Coast of the United States has recently published [something] new [about primes] ... [for] ... children ... most pages are strictly without text, with some figures and some very nice drawings." -- Pierre De La Harpe, Images des mathématiques, June 2010In this book, the old saying 'A picture is worth a thousand words' has been twisted around. ... There is very little reading in the book; the ideas will become clear from the pictures and drawings. Except perhaps for the very last part, the volume should be accessible for elementary school students, and even for some of them, the last part should not be too difficult. ... Because of the color and the emphasis on pictures, the book may even have some appeal t
Copyright Date
2010
Target Audience
College Audience
Lccn
2009-038661
Dewey Decimal
512.9/23
Dewey Edition
23
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