You Can Count on Monsters: The First 100 Numbers and Their Characters (Monograph Books) - Softcover

Schwartz, Richard Evan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1470422093 ISBN 13: 9781470422097

Publisher: American Mathematical Society, 2015

Synopsis

This book is a unique teaching tool that takes math lovers on a journey designed to motivate kids (and kids at heart) to learn the fun of factoring and prime numbers. This volume visually explores the concepts 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 can also help adult readers answer questions about factoring from their young audience. The artwork is crisp and creative and the colors are bright and engaging, making this volume a welcome deviation from standard math texts.

Any person, regardless of age, can profit from reading this book. Readers will find themselves returning to its pages for a very long time, continually learning from and getting to know the monsters as their knowledge expands. You Can Count on Monsters is a magnificent addition for any math education program and is enthusiastically recommended to every teacher, parent and grandparent, student, child, or other individual interested in exploring the visually fascinating world of the numbers 1 through 100.

About this title

About the Author

Richard Evan Schwartz, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: American Mathematical Society
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1470422093
• ISBN 13: 9781470422097
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 242