You Can Count on Monsters
by Richard Evan Schwartz
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Pub Date Mar 01 2010 | Archive Date Sep 01 2012
Description
This special "counting" book visually explores the concept 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 are designed to help adults answer questions about factoring from their young audience. The artwork is crisp and creative and the colors are very bright and engaging.
This book explains the concepts of prime numbers, composite numbers, and factoring in away that a young child can understand. The introduction explains the main ideas in a child-friendly way while the body of the book illustrates the concepts through a series of pictures about the numbers from 1 to 100. Two appendices provide additional information about prime numbers.
Joy Hakim, author of "The Story of Science: Einstein Adds a New Dimension", from the Smithsonian, says of the book, "Did you know that prime numbers can be monsters and that multiplication follows patterns? In this wonderful book you'll learn that and lots more. I recommend it."
Advance Praise
"This compact, innovative book counts to 100 using prime numbers represented as "monsters", each with identifying characteristics (two resembles a bee with two buggy eyes, and three is an angry-looking triangular creature). The book opens with explanations of multiplication, prime and composite numbers, and factor trees, then moves on to a list of numbers. Each prime number looks unique, while composite numbers are represented by scenes involving their prime numbers (eight is illustrated as three of the beelike twos, i.e., two times tow times two. Readers may have difficulty deciphering the pictures, which come to resemble little works of abstract geometric art. But especially for creative learners, visualizing the roles each monster plays may lead to deeper number sense. Ages 4-8."
--Publishers Weekly
"This delightful book is a result of the author's desire to teach his daughters about primes and factorization. . . The whole thing is a lot of fun. The book is well produced and nice to look at."
--MAA Reviews
"Me eight-year old granddaughter is just learning about multiplication and as we read through almost the whole book, she especially liked the 'special numbers' (primes) where a new shape appeared. . . She's going to take the book to her second grade class. Every school library should have one."
--Thomas Banchoff, former President of the Mathematical Association of America
"This book is filled with intriguing and amusing pictures designed to arouse the curiosity of budding mathematicians. I showed this book to my daughters (prime ages 7 and 11), and they both had fun with it. My favorite moment was when my younger daughter said, 'Wait, the picture for 16 looks a lot like the picture for 8. Why is that?'"
--Arthur Benjamin, co-author of Proofs that Really Count and Secrets of Mental Math
"It is a brilliant idea to publish this strange and beguiling book with insightful mathematics for young and not so young people interested in the subject. My grandson, aged 10, is a talented artist and fascinated with science and mathematics. He is hooked on the book, saying it explains ideas so well and so easily."
--David Tall, Emeritus Professor in Mathematical Thinking, University of Warwick
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781568815787 |
| PRICE | 24.95 |
| PAGES | 244 |
