More or Less and a Vampire's Guess (Math Blast!: Spooky Math)

Brinker, Spencer

ISBN 10: 1627243305 ISBN 13: 9781627243308

Publisher: Bearport Pub Co Inc, 2014

Synopsis

Meet a vampire who loves to count, guess, and compare numbers in and around his creepy castle. In this enchanting book, kids help sort piles of pumpkins, spiders, and other spooky objects to help the vampire figure out which groups have more or less. The text is sure to delight children as it reinforces their reading and math skills. Each 32-page book features controlled text with age-appropriate vocabulary and simple sentence construction. The rhyming text, colorful design, and spooky art will excite and engage emergent readers.

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K-Gr 2-Though the monsters, ghosts, and witches pictured in these counting lessons are on the corny side, the simple rhyming text describing their numerical concerns are likely to amuse beginning readers. A vampire and a witch named Belinda appear as friendly humans in costume, while Elsie the Even, Onslow the Odd, and a ghost are smiling animation-style creatures. Their assorted household goods include everyday items, such as socks, sneakers, pumpkins, and dirty dishes, as well as the requisite animal life: toads, snakes, spiders, bugs, lots of mice, and a few crocodiles. Readers are invited to answer various questions related to math or counting (for instance, "Which group has fewer, and which group has more? The mice resting on the pillow, or the rats dancing on the floor?"). The interactive counting scheme provides solid practice in arithmetic and reading, and the goofy theme and details add just a bit of silly fun.α(c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bearport Pub Co Inc
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1627243305
• ISBN 13: 9781627243308
• Binding: Library Binding
• Number of pages: 32