Paul GigantiRecensioni

a. This counting book by Paul Giganti, Jr, illustrated by Donald Crews is a fun and different counting book as it actually does not have any numbers written in it. I enjoyed how the questions build off of one another, encouraging math skill development. It shows a few different types of animals and encourages children to count them, throughout the book and to spot the differences in the imagery. Not just “how many fish are red and how many are yellow?”, but “How many fish were there? How many fish were red? How many fish were red and had their mouths open?” (Giganti). This allows for children to count but also to notice subtle differences. I would read this in the classroom, children would enjoy this book and would be running as close to the pages as possible to count.

I like this book because it can be soothing.

How Many Blue Birds Flew Away is a book that prompts the reader with questions of subtraction. The reader is taken threw an average school environment and is given normal, everyday objects to count and subtract. This encourages children at their own schools to count and subtract the object that they see. The pictures were vital to the story and are to be used as a visual aid for readers to count and subtract from. I can definitely see this book used in an elementary math class or used in a small math station/cluster.

focus on multiplying, understanding multiplication, or counting in groups.

This is a good example of an informational book because it requires the reader to practice their counting as it describes how many objects there are and then the reader can count how many of the object are on the page such as black bugs on the petals of the red flowers.½

This a a book of riddles that can either be solved by counting from the pictures or by doing math. This book is good for all ages because the riddles can be solved by the pictures not just the math. I would use this is the transitions for adding to multiplying

This book is great for using in a lower level elementary classroom. It connects math and reading and is incredibly interactive. The book discusses addition, subtraction, and finding the difference between numbers. The book has bright and bold illustrations, drawing the reader in. Students who may struggle with learning about math topics may have an easier time with learning about these subjects from a different perspective.

This book was about someone wondering how many objects there were on the page. They wondered how many snails there were, then they wondered how many snails there were with strips. This book is a good book to teach counting to tell the number of objects there are on the page. This would be for young children that are learning to count. It is also a colorful book that I think children would enjoy.

an in depth math book that provides different multiplication questions and different addition problems. a real life introduction to using math in the real world.
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Paul Giganti Junior presents readers with multiple math problems throughout this book. Readers will be comparing different objects and will need to use their counting skills in order to solve Giganti’s problems. This book is a great way to introduce and practice addition and subtraction skills. Donald Crews illustrations are great for the purpose of this book. There is not a lot going on, which makes it easier for readers to focus on the objects that matter.

This is a good example of a informational book because it is a counting book that you have to look at the pictures and count them a couple times. It goes over the difference of what is left over when you subtract one group from another group. Besides counting children can read and look at each page to think and discover things out from the book and illustrations. Its a fun interactive informational book for children.
Media: Gouache and watercolor

If each orange has 8 slices and each slice has 2 seeds, then how many seeds are there in all? You'll have fun multiplying, adding, and counting your way through the math puzzles hiding in the world all around you. Review from Amazon

This book is good for students that are in either Kindergarten or first grade. It is not a book that you can use as much for a literary lesson, but is a good book to use during a math lesson. If you want to use it as a literary lesson, you can use it to show how the numbers they are using to count connect to the questions that they ask on the next page and how they relate to each other. You can also talk about how the pictures relate to the questions being asked (kindergarten standard #7). You can also use this book to have students learn to look back at the previous page to answer the questions. It is important to teach students to look back in the book to find answers. This book is good to help younger students with their counting skills and build up their basic math skills. You can also use this book to begin teaching more complex skills too. You can use this to teach older or more advanced students how multiplication or addition. You can have them add up 3 + 3 + 3 or do 3 x 3 for example. The main use of this book is to help students build up their math skills.

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This story is a good book for children who are starting off with math. The story goes through different math concepts and counting. I enjoyed reading this book, it was cute and an easy read.

A counting book for young children. It shows pictures of things they might be familiar with and they learn to count. It introduces beginning math concepts.

I think the different colored snails make it easy for children to differentiate between the snails when counting.

This is a fun book that allows children to count. This book is different though, in the sense that it only asked questions ("how many snails are there?", "how many snails with black stripes?", etc.) and did not provide the answers, like most counting books. I liked this because it allows the young children to count themselves and have their mistakes corrected by the person reading to them.

Summary: This is a counting book that introduces beginning math concepts for young children. It shows inviting pictures of things that they know about and helps them learn to count.
Personal Reaction: I liked how the author and illustrator used common things such as flowers,cows,houses,and gum balls, to help children learn to count. The pictures were full of color and enforces visual literacy, and will make it fun for the children to interact with the book.
Classroom Extension Ideas: We will look around the room and find other things that we can count. I will also get us all oranges and do like the book, and count our slices of oranges and then get to have a snack. We can then draw and color one of the pictures in the book,of their choosing, then count and write the number on our papers.

Review: Illustrates and describes real world problems to introduce counting and simple addition.
Genre: informational
Critique: This is a good example of informational text, because it presents accurate information. The real world problems that are the context for each math problem are believable and relevant to children today. Also, the math problems make sense and are correct.

I like this book because it involves math concepts for young children. It a great book to challenge children to compare and categorizing things while adding and subtracting. The illustrations are bright and colorful. That will attract the attention of young students. This book would make math a fun learning experience.

"How Many Snails?" is an interactive counting book in which each page has different items to count. Donald Crews' illustrations are fun and interesting to look at. This book would be a great tool for teaching numbers and counting in the classroom.

Giganti, P., & Crews, D. (Ill.). (1992). Each orange had 8 slices: A counting book. New York: Greenwillow Books.

This book presents the concepts of addition and multiplication in a very appealing way through colorful illustrations and various situations of a child’s everyday life. Situations are all presented on two pages with three “layers” of quantities being given for each situation (for example, “On my way to the zoo I saw 3 waddling ducks. Each duck had 4 baby ducks trailing behind. Each duck said, ‘QUACK, QUACK, QUACK’ ”), and three questions are asked on the corresponding quantities (in this case, about the number of ducks, baby ducks, and “QUACKS”). All the items/people/animals mentioned are represented, so one could just find the answers by counting the corresponding pictures. Additions could be used at a more advanced math level, and at a higher math level, one could also find the answers by using multiplications, which makes this book versatile in its uses. The book ends on a fun note with the “As I was going to St. Ives” Mother Goose riddle (the solution is given). Ages 6-10.

This book focuses on teaching math concepts (the author is a math teacher) whereas Eric Carle’s book uses numbers (1 through 10 "only") more as a pretext to tell a story involving other concepts beyond numbers. Both books are equally colorful and attractive in their own way.

This is a good example of realistic fiction because each situation could be real. The reader can connect the mathematical situations to their own lives.

Grade Level: Primary½

This book is a great book to incorporate with a math lesson in the classroom. It helps children understand the concept of counting through literature.