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You Can Count on Monsters: The First 100 Numbers and Their Characters

di Richard Evan Schwartz

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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.… (altro)
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Coolest math book ever. ( )
  Jandrew74 | May 26, 2019 |
Prime numbers, factor trees, monsters? The boy devoured this over two days with both mama and papa. ( )
  beckydj | Mar 31, 2013 |
This books talks about counting, prime numbers and introduces different shapes students will have to learn. This is a great book, for children to get more information on certain math concepts. I would use this is book for 2nd to 4th grades. This can be another outlet for children understanding math.
  janeyiaC | Dec 10, 2011 |
I was really disappointed with this book. The number 1 was sad, the monsters were overly complicated and did not elegantly explain their value, and the combinations of prime monsters were confusing (either not well done or way-too-overly clever topologically) and did not elegantly explain anything otherwise mathematical. The best part, although still not that well done, was the work done with dots on the left hand pages. The way the dots were colored and arranged often - but not always - demonstrated revealing characteristics of multiplication. I've seen people positively review this book, and say that it worked with their kids, but for me it was not intuitive ( )
  JanesList | Jun 18, 2011 |
The author has written a wonderfully illustrated book about the first 100 numbers and their characters (prime monsters). All you need to know is how to multiply whole numbers together (like 2 and 3), and this book will put you well on your way to understanding factor trees, primes and composites, and how to find prime numbers. With imaginative monsters and colorful drawings, this would be a great book for homeschoolers and educators to have on hand to make factoring not-so-scary. (except for those weird-looking, colorful monsters, that is!) ( )
  jewelknits | Mar 20, 2011 |
Math is no monster in the clever hands of Richard Evan Schwartz, a math professor at Brown University. With logic and oodles of humor, he makes primes and composites perfectly clear. ... Schwartz created his ingenious paperback, subtitled "The First 100 Numbers and Their Characters," for his young daughter. ...this charming book from an academic publisher took off like a rocket.
aggiunto da CourtyardSchool | modificaSacramento Bee, Judy Green (Mar 28, 2011)
 
... Mathematician Keith Devlin talks with NPR's 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." ...
 
Gr 4-8 -- This hybrid math/art book is both ambitious and imaginative. An introductory section explains the colored-dot configurations and factor trees for numbers 1 to 100.... Schwartz has created a creature for each prime number: "Each monster has something about it that relates to its number, but sometimes you have to look hard (and count) to find it." ... The pages are glossy black with flat, colorful abstractions. ... This is a book for math lovers who want to have some fun. ... While the dot configurations and factor trees are less inventive, they provide a more concrete explanation of the math for the rest of us.
aggiunto da CourtyardSchool | modificaSchool Library Journal, Vol. 56, Issue 6, page 139, Barbara Auerbach (Jun 1, 2010)
 
This delightful book is the result of the author’s desire to teach his daughters about primes and factorization. Apart from an introduction and some explanatory material in the back, it consists of one hundred double pages: on the left page is a number and that many dots, arranged into clusters that display its factorization. On the right page is a picture that represents the same information using the author’s "monsters," which represent the prime numbers. ... The whole thing is a lot of fun. The book is well produced and nice to look at. ...
 
... An introductory part shows how to represent numbers with pictures and tree diagrams. ... Following the introductory part is a pair of pages for each of the numbers from 1 to 100 (including the primes). A dot pattern, a tree diagram, and a figure (or a compilation of figures) appear for each of the numbers. For the composite numbers, the fun will be in deciphering how the figure was constructed from the individual prime-number figures. After the part for the 100 numbers is a short part at the end showing the sieve of Eratosthenes, albeit in graphical form. ... Because of the color and the emphasis on pictures, the book may even have some appeal to more advanced students and to adults who are “afraid” of mathematics, because it doesn’t repeat what they may have already experienced, but instead brings out new ideas with little demand on prior knowledge.
 
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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.

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