MathStart Series
SALE-Coyotes All Around (Rounding) MathStart Level 2
- SKU:
- R0116-78C
- MPN:
- 9780060515317
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Ships Within 1 Business Day
- Type:
- Paperback
- Dimensions:
- 10.2 x 0.2 x 8.5 inches
- Age:
- 6-8 years
- Grade Level:
- 1-2
- Series:
- MathStart 2
- Pages:
- 40
- ISBN:
- 978-0060515317
- Author:
- Stuart J. Murphy
Description
It's another fine desert day for the counting coyotes: Clumsy, Clever, Cool, Careful and Little One. Clumsy thinks there must be hundreds of roadrunner birds, but Clever thinks that's a little high and encourages the other four coyotes to take a count. When it comes time to add up the totals, Clever says she can do in it her head by using rounding. Instead of adding 21+12+17+8, Clever rounds the numbers and adds 20+10+20+10, estimating the total will be 60. The actual total is 58, so she's pretty close. The coyotes then try counting lizards and grasshoppers. Clever's fast estimating amazes her friends. The story is also filled with lots of coyote factoids.
Rounding and then computing are necessary skills for making sound estimates.
Stuart J. Murphy is a Boston-based author and visual learning strategist. He is the author of the award-winning MathStartseries, which includes a total of 63 children’s books that present mathematical concepts in the context of stories for Pre-K through Grade 4. He is also the author of Stuart J. Murphy’s I SEE I LEARN, a 16-book series of storybooks for children in Pre-K, Kindergarten, and Grade 1 that focus on social, emotional, health and safety, and cognitive skills. Stuart is on the authorship team of a number of mathematics programs published by Savvas Learning, formerly Pearson Education, and a frequent presenter at educational conferences. Most of all, Stuart is an advocate of helping our children develop their visual learning skills so they become more successful students.