Sizing Up Winter (Math in Nature Series #3)

by Lizann Flatt, Ashley Barron (Illustrator)

Overview

Q&A format; rich vocabulary (math terms); fact page; internet resources (teacher guides)

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781771473392
Publisher:	Owlkids Books
Publication date:	08/15/2018
Series:	Math in Nature Series , #3
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.30(w) x 10.30(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	5 - 7 Years

About the Author

LIZANN FLATT has written many information books for children, including The Nature Treasury and Let’s Go! A former editor of chickaDEE Magazine, her children’s writing has won many honors, including a Distinguished Achievement Award from The Association of Educational Publishers. She lives in Muskoka, ON.

ASHLEY BARRON studied illustration at the Ontario College of Art & Design. She has since illustrated a number of books with Owlkids and Kids Can Press. Ashley shares a studio with her partner and three cats in Toronto, Ontario.

Editorial Reviews

Children who peruse the illustrations carefully and welcome the challenge of problem solving will enjoy this book.

School Library Journal - Sara—Jo Lupo

"This terrific series provides cross—curricular activities for K—2 classrooms and non—formal learning environments."

Green Teacher Magazine

Barron's stunning cut—paper collages are the highlight of the book, while backmatter provides a paragraph of information about each of the featured creatures. When read with a caring adult, this may challenge readers to look at measurement in a different way.

Kirkus Reviews

"Sizing Up Winter expands upon the number sense and numeration skills learned in the previous "Math in Nature" titles and invites readers to reflect on patterns and shapes in nature through interactive measurement problems."

CM Magazine - Natalie Schembri

"Ashley Barron's cheery cut—paper collage illustrations make this book inviting to young eyes, and the author's appended "Nature Notes" offer tantalizing thumbnail descriptions of some of the more northerly animals"

Books For Kids Blog

"This interesting book uses the winter season to demonstrate different ways of measuring... A great introduction of math concepts to very young children."

Youth Services Book Review

"Third in the "Math in Nature" series, Sizing Up Winter exhibits elegant, lacy collage art illustrations in tandem with poetic prose propositions that imagine the presence of math and number concepts in nature."

Children's Bookwatch

Children who peruse the illustrations carefully and welcome the challenge of problem solving will enjoy this book.

School Library Journal - Sara-Jo Lupo

Praise for Counting on Fall:
"Barron's cut-paper collages have the crispness of an autumn afternoon, and Flatt smoothly touches on estimation, counting by fives and tens, counting backwards, and other mathematical concepts while maintaining a gentle, whimsical tone."
— Publishers Weekly

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