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What Is Math? (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780316337779)
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Rebecca Kai Dotlich
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xAn NSTA-CBC 2023 Best STEM Book of the Year
An Amazon Editor's Pick - An Amazon Best Book of the Month "A great way to show even the math-averse or math-phobic the many ways that math is hiding in their everyday lives." --Kirkus Reviews "A delightful first look at STEM." --School Library Journal A lively celebration of math and all the ways it applies to everyday life. What is math? So many things! Counting and calendars, weights and fractions, shapes and distances, charting and graphing. Math is the way we measure and code our world, from seasons to clocks, recipes, classrooms, and beyond. Math is all around us! Readers will be introduced to:
- Graphs and charts--in the form of pizza pies!
- Counting and weight--when baking a cake!
- Shapes and word problems--to build a spaceship! This rousing read aloud offers an engaging and accessible introduction to math--perfect for sparking an early interest in STEM subjects for preschool and early elementary school children. And be sure to keep an eye out for a friendly black cat and white dog on each spread as they participate in the math-related hijinks!
Author: Rebecca Kai Dotlich
ISBN-10: 0316337773
ISBN-13: 9780316337779
Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and Hach
Language: English
Published: 07/26/2022
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 9.20w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2022
School Library Journal 06/01/2022 pg. 86
Booklist 06/01/2022 pg. 63
An Amazon Editor's Pick - An Amazon Best Book of the Month "A great way to show even the math-averse or math-phobic the many ways that math is hiding in their everyday lives." --Kirkus Reviews "A delightful first look at STEM." --School Library Journal A lively celebration of math and all the ways it applies to everyday life. What is math? So many things! Counting and calendars, weights and fractions, shapes and distances, charting and graphing. Math is the way we measure and code our world, from seasons to clocks, recipes, classrooms, and beyond. Math is all around us! Readers will be introduced to:
- Graphs and charts--in the form of pizza pies!
- Counting and weight--when baking a cake!
- Shapes and word problems--to build a spaceship! This rousing read aloud offers an engaging and accessible introduction to math--perfect for sparking an early interest in STEM subjects for preschool and early elementary school children. And be sure to keep an eye out for a friendly black cat and white dog on each spread as they participate in the math-related hijinks!
Author: Rebecca Kai Dotlich
ISBN-10: 0316337773
ISBN-13: 9780316337779
Publisher: Christy Ottaviano Books-Little Brown and Hach
Language: English
Published: 07/26/2022
Pages: 40
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.20h x 9.20w x 0.50d
Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 05/01/2022
School Library Journal 06/01/2022 pg. 86
Booklist 06/01/2022 pg. 63
By Rebecca Kai Dotlich
xRebecca Kai Dotlich is a poet and the author of many award-winning picture books for young readers, including Race Car Count; What Can a Crane Pick Up?; One Day, The End; and What Is Science?, which was a Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year and a finalist in the Children's Science Picture Book category of the AAAS/Subaru the Best of Science Book & Film Prize. She lives in Indiana. Sachiko Yoshikawa grew up in Tokyo, where her parents ran a salon. Her mother was a stylist, while her father kept track of the financials, often with an abacus. It was on the abacus that Sachiko learned to add and subtract. She still uses a mental image of her father's abacus when solving simple math problems. Sachiko is the illustrator of Beach Is to Fun: A Book of Relationships as well as What Is Science? She lives in California with her family.
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