FICTION

Teddy Bear Math

by Barbara Barbieri MCGRATH
978-1-58089-283-4.
COPY ISBN
PreS-Gr 3—Similar in style to McGrath's Teddy Bear Counting (Charlesbridge, 2010), this picture book uses a rainbow of bears to explore sorting, graphing, addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, and ordinal numbers. Despite the rhyming text and bright illustrations hand drawn digitally in Adobe Photoshop, readers may get more out of Stuart J. Murphy's "MathStart" series (HarperCollins) or Greg Tang's math riddle books (Scholastic), where one concept is introduced as the topic for the book rather than several at once. This book would make a great preview to using bear counters as math tools and is best suited for early-learning classrooms where children have access to these manipulatives.—Melissa Smith, Royal Oak Public Library, MI
Rhyming verses ask readers to follow along as brightly colored teddy bears are first estimated then sorted, graphed, added, subtracted, multiplied, and divided. The hand-drawn digital pictures illustrate each stanza as well as the directions and outcomes. Great for small group instruction and could be used for multiple class sessions.
Reviewed by Melissa Smith , Jun 01, 2011

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