Mission, addition - Softcover

Leedy, Loreen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0590635042 ISBN 13: 9780590635042

Publisher: Scholastic Inc., 1997

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author

Loreen Leedy writes and illustrates books in her studio in central Florida. When not writing, drawing, or painting on her computer, she's exercising, eating out, or going to the movies with her husband Andy. Her other books include the following:

• My Teacher Is a Dinosaur
• The Shocking Truth about Energy
• Crazy Like a Fox: A Simile Story
• Missing Math: A Number Mystery
• The Edible Pyramid: Good Eating Every Day
• Fraction Action
• There's a Frog in My Throat: 440 Animal Sayings a Little Bird Told Me

Her web site is LoreenLeedy.com.

From School Library Journal

Grade 1-3?In a style similar to that of her successful Fraction Action (1994) and 2 X 2 = Boo! (1996, both Holiday), Leedy guides readers through the learning-addition maze by using examples from the everyday world. Her growing complement of math titles pairs well with Stuart J. Murphy's "MathStart" series (HarperCollins). Here, in separate vignettes, Miss Prime and her class of animal students learn to add by playing detective and counting clues, taking a class survey, inventing word problems, and figuring out a lunch bill; two other situations focus on adding the profits of a yard sale and keeping score in a game. Although the breaks between the different scenes are not very well delineated, Leedy's explanations are clear and concise, and her colorful pictures feature a bevy of amusing animals. The math projects presented can spawn ideas for teachers and parents. Under Leedy's sure hand, Mission: Addition will not be Mission: Impossible.?Barbara Elleman, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
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Edition details

• Publisher: Scholastic Inc.
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0590635042
• ISBN 13: 9780590635042
• Binding: Paperback