A Million Dots offers a journey to really big numbers. It's easy to talk about 10 eggs or 100 pennies but when it comes to numbers in the thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, it's much harder to come up with concrete examples. The book gives great examples (it takes 578,504 shoelaces tied together to reach from Boston to New York which helps when you're halfway into the trip and a little voice from the back seat asks why we're not there yet for the umpteenth time) and helps provide some general sense of really big numbers. Not for early counters but great when kids are starting to explore their own place and sense of size and scope. Good also for grown-ups who have a hard time understanding, let alone explaining, the concept of a million. 48 pages.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
A Million Dots by Andrew Clements
A Million Dots offers a journey to really big numbers. It's easy to talk about 10 eggs or 100 pennies but when it comes to numbers in the thousands, tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, it's much harder to come up with concrete examples. The book gives great examples (it takes 578,504 shoelaces tied together to reach from Boston to New York which helps when you're halfway into the trip and a little voice from the back seat asks why we're not there yet for the umpteenth time) and helps provide some general sense of really big numbers. Not for early counters but great when kids are starting to explore their own place and sense of size and scope. Good also for grown-ups who have a hard time understanding, let alone explaining, the concept of a million. 48 pages.
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