love this math book, Fun! My sixyearold is insatiable about numbers right now, and this book absolutely hits the spot, It is mindblowing, as the illustrations Stephen Kellogg is a favorite of mine and narrative effectively explore VERY large numbers that you sometimes hear thrown around in the news.
Here you will learn that a trillion a thousand billion really is tremendous,
A sample
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, If you wanted to count from one to one million, it would take you aboutdays,
That is just the beginning of the journey,
As you read the notes from the author at the conclusion of the book, you find that he has even taken into account that it takes about six seconds to fully annunciate the number,,,.
Pull out your stopwatch and give it a try, :o
All of his math calculations, including his data that the average height of a elementary school pupil is'", are also found in the author's notes.
It is fascinating! I want to recommend this book to my older sister, my brother, Eric, and any other math nerds out there.
How many years would it take you to count to one million One billion One trillion What if you wanted to find a goldfish bowl big enough to hold a million or a billion or a trillion gold fish This humorous, but accurate book follows a group of kids and Marvelosissimo, the Mathematical Magician, to answers these questions.
The illustrations show energetic children amazed at the sights Marvelosissimo shows them, The pictures are full of movement, splashing whales, climbing children, I also love that the wizard and kids travel in a hot air balloon with their pets, a unicorn,cats, and a dog!
The text is concise and full of alliteration, “How tremendous is a trillion” And it shows Schwartz great enthusiastic for the subject.
Using comparisons, the text makes these large numbers accessible, Schwartz also includes an authors note at the end of the book, which explains the calculations he used,
Full at PictureBookaDay: sitelink blogspot. com/ We had this book when I was growing up and I was fascinated with it, I took it out from the library to read to my son and while he's a bit young to grasp the concept of a million, he still enjoyed the story.
I really like Kellogg's illustrations, The only thing I don't like is that the text is set in all caps, Why Brief summary: This book is about a explaining the magnitude of the number: one million, It goes through different scenarios that involve the number so that children can better understand that a million is huge.
Genre: nonfiction, informational guide to understanding concepts
Reading Level: This book is for transitional readers because the text placement is varied and there are multiple lines on most pages.
There is a mixture of regular and some harder words, which were mostly one or two syllables, There are also some unfamiliar concepts in language including stadium, and presto,
Topic: mathematic awareness, connecting information
Curriculum Uses: I would use this book for a read aloud or to support a math lesson about understanding the magnitude of the larger numbers such as a million and a billion.
This would also make a good reference book for my library,
Literary Elements: This author includes many similes in this book such as: as big as a stadium, and as big as a city harbor.
The author also uses imagery to help the children imagine the size of each of the number in realistic terms.
The repetition of the word way in the book helps readers comprehend how far beyond the moon that the tower of children would reach.
Also, the tone that the author establishes helps the readers to form a positive attitude about understanding math,
Social Issues: This book does not address specific social issues it just discusses concepts,
Illustrations amp Text: The illustrations in this book help support the text somewhat closely because they depict the concepts that the text is addressing.
The characters in each illustration add life to the book and convey happiness, which helps the readers maintain a positive demeanor while reading the book.
This is a great book to get kids interested in numbers and thinking in a big picture way.
The author includes how he calculated al of his math, taking kids though complicated equations in a clear and concise way.
I wish I had discovered it as a child This is a fun book that plays with the number million.
It teaches how big the number is, For example it would takedays to count to a million and it would take a bowl as big as a stadium to fit a million goldfish.
My son went through a stage of everything being a million and we enjoy reading this book and comparing how many small things would make up a million.
It puts it in perspective in a fun way, Summary:
This book makes it fun to understand math, It explains what it really means to have a million or even more or less, This book uses great examples like if one million kids climbed into one anothers shoulders they would be taller than the tallest building.
They make it fun and they have great pictures that go along with what is being said,
Like or not:
I really like this book, I didnt think nonfiction picture books were a thing and then I came across this book and I think it is so fun and different and you are learning while you are reading it.
Classroom:
I would use this book in my classroom if I was going to do a math lesson understanding place values and understanding what a million really is.
This could bring math over to reading which always makes math a better subject when it involves anything that is not math Marvelosissimo the fictional Mathematical Magician introduces children to the nonfiction mathematical concept of very high numbers one million, one billion, and one trillion using a variety of relatable illustrations and examples e.
g. 'If you wanted to count from one to one million, it would take you aboutdays' and 'If a goldfish bowl were big enough for a million goldfish, it would be large enough to hold a whale'.
The How Much Is a Million?'s colorful ink and watercolor illustrations on each page help readers to visualize the examples given for each progressively larger number.
Three pages of author's notes at the conclusion of the book detail the precise mathematical calculations behind the illustrative examples given in simplified form
in the main body of the text.
“A jubilant, original picture book, ” Booklist starred review
Ever wonder just what a million of something means How about a billion Or a trillion Marvelosissimo the mathematical magician can teach you!
How Much Is a Million knocks complex numbers down to size in a fun, humorous way, helping children conceptualize a difficult mathematical concept.
It's a math class you'll never forget,
This classic picture book is an ALA Notable Book, a Reading Rainbow Feature Selection, and a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book for Illustration.
The repackage of this fun look at math concepts includes a letter from the author that features several ways for children to find a million everyday things.
I got this book for my middle guy because he always has questions based on numbers,
The author is actually a mathematician and made this conceptual book for children to grow their curiosity for numbers.
The illustrations are enchanting with the element of learning and the text teaches with questions and answers entertaining to a child's mind.
A very gripping conceptual math tale,
"How big is a million
If a billion kids made a human tower, . .
they would stand up past the moon,
If you sat down to count from one to one billion, . .
you would be counting foryears, "
So let Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician take your kids into the realm of big numbers, Kindergarteners make an excellent reading audience, At tutoring every week, we primarily practice letter, number, and quantity recognition with the group of students, so when I found How Much is a Million on the Titlebookshelf, it was an ideal breakout when their attentions drifted away from the white board work.
This is a good concept book, and I was already thinking of how I could write an interactive reading lesson plan around it probably with the focus of fantasy v.
reality or repetition. What I liked about it, along with the whimsical artwork, was how it presented and encouraged number sense, Writing down "" and knowing that it representsitems are two seperate concepts,
Mostly, I was just happy that the students sat through the entire book, They are wiggly, as kindergarteners should be,
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