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Let's Do Math!
Counting
Learn to count by ones, by fives, and by tens using various familiar objects.
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24 pages, Library Binding
First published August 1, 2002
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April 2, 2025
Now this is what I’m talkin about
February 24, 2017
Pistoia, Sara . Counting (2007). Child's World. MN, USA.
This book is designed to help kids learn how to count by 1's, 5's and 10's while also touching on addition a place value. At first glance this math counting concept book appears to be a supplementary math textbook or a homeschooling book.
A strength of this text is that the photographs and examples used are in color which would would make the concept more appealing to young readers. Another strength is that they examples used are everyday or familiar objects such as buttons, and rocks which gives math a real world connection is so important for building concrete understanding. The text gives you an idea of how one can replicate similar problems and skip-counting practice with objects available at home. The font size is large and easy to read which is helpful for young readers. However, the younger the reader and the lower their reading level may be, the reader may need assistance in decoding and comprehending the text. One weakness I noticed immediately was that the text assumes the reader know was a one, five and ten stand for and know how to group or count them by skip-counting. The reader can check their answer because it states the answer, but there is no guarantee of using the strategy suggested.
Target audience: K-2.
This book is designed to help kids learn how to count by 1's, 5's and 10's while also touching on addition a place value. At first glance this math counting concept book appears to be a supplementary math textbook or a homeschooling book.
A strength of this text is that the photographs and examples used are in color which would would make the concept more appealing to young readers. Another strength is that they examples used are everyday or familiar objects such as buttons, and rocks which gives math a real world connection is so important for building concrete understanding. The text gives you an idea of how one can replicate similar problems and skip-counting practice with objects available at home. The font size is large and easy to read which is helpful for young readers. However, the younger the reader and the lower their reading level may be, the reader may need assistance in decoding and comprehending the text. One weakness I noticed immediately was that the text assumes the reader know was a one, five and ten stand for and know how to group or count them by skip-counting. The reader can check their answer because it states the answer, but there is no guarantee of using the strategy suggested.
Target audience: K-2.
August 24, 2024
Sara Pistoia writes like a ultra-experienced elementary schoolteacher. Which she happens to be. Reading this book, you may feel as if you've been plonked into one of those tiny desks with the teensy-weensy chairs.
Kids learn to count by ones, by fives, and by tens.
Count what? Buttons and pebbles and peanuts, and more.
No doubt kids learn to dread the red rectangles at the bottom of many double spreads, on the right. That's where that relentless teacher Sara gives kids one more assignment. For instance, on Page 13:
Did you count six piles of ten? Good!
That's sixty!
Then count four extra rocks by ones.
That's sixty-four rocks!
As the reviewer I gladly give this book FIVE STARS.
As a person, I'm relieved that I was never literally in Sara's classroom. Kind of scary, to me, her all-business style of working with numbers. Though I do have respect for her as a teacher.
Kids learn to count by ones, by fives, and by tens.
Count what? Buttons and pebbles and peanuts, and more.
No doubt kids learn to dread the red rectangles at the bottom of many double spreads, on the right. That's where that relentless teacher Sara gives kids one more assignment. For instance, on Page 13:
Did you count six piles of ten? Good!
That's sixty!
Then count four extra rocks by ones.
That's sixty-four rocks!
As the reviewer I gladly give this book FIVE STARS.
As a person, I'm relieved that I was never literally in Sara's classroom. Kind of scary, to me, her all-business style of working with numbers. Though I do have respect for her as a teacher.
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