Comments on: Math For All Seasons (Scholastic Bookshelf)

By: Cherub

Cherub — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:12:35 +0000

This is a great book. It’s a great way to learn math while enjoying a book. It’s just a fun game my kids enjoy. I would like to get all of these books. I definitly recomend this book. Great for homeschooling!

By: Eliseo Cruz

Eliseo Cruz — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:12:35 +0000

This book is quirky, entertaining, and imaginative for the age group it targets. Worth reading to your child to enhance math skills and numeric thoughts.

By: pathak

pathak — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:12:35 +0000

I am surprised to see so much praise in reviews posted here for a book that could so much better! To be sure, kids would be intrigued by learning from simple patterns of additions or multiplications, but the author should try more challenging problems. To wit, my seven-year old grandson did not find much of a learning tool here.

Already our schools have lowered the bar; why do so in their fun-reading too?Let us try harder.

By: H.M. Fonseca

H.M. Fonseca — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:12:35 +0000

This lovely story book is filled with beautiful illustrations and rhyming poetry. Each poem gives a clue to a mystery; the math problem illustrated on the facing page. This book deals mostly with addition and subtraction, making it a useful book for kindergarten and 1st grade level children.

Once my 6 1/2 year old daughter understood how she was to figure out the math problem she began to really enjoy finding the correct answer. Just having to figure out the problem creatively was good for her. She's having a hard time in math, and so I have been looking for fun ways to help her with the subject. This book is the best one I've found so far. But now we've finished all the problems, and therein lies the problem.

Once your child has solved the mysteries there really is no reason to continue reading the book. It's hardcover and presented as a storybook - a creative solution to all the boring math workbooks out ther and the endless repetition of math equations that children find so dull. But gosh I wish it was longer or that it was a workbook. Being able to draw on the pages would really have helped my daughter figure out the problems.

Like the other reviewers I highly recommend this book. The quality is high, the illustrations are cute and the poetry lovely. But plan on giving it to friends, a local library, or your child's school after your child has solved all the problems.

By: Janet Smith

Janet Smith — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 09:12:35 +0000

I have been waiting for any books from this series. This one is another wonderful, innovative counting book that's ready to challenge children who just start their math thinking. Each thoughtfully designed problem, posed as a riddle, and told in engaging rhyme is presented together with eye-catching and mind-stretching illustrations. No more boredom in counting the old way. The authors help kids think creatively by looking for patterns, relations and recognizing groupings. Young children will feel a real sense of accomplishment as they begin to develop the problem solving skills and tactics they'll use for the rest of their lives. With a helpful hint at the end of each rhyme to perk up the interest, and a straight forward, easy to understand answer key at the end, many kids don't even know they're working on math problems. They're just having fun!

This book is particularly useful for gifted and talented children, who are ready to learn math very early. It instills natural and intuitive math thinking without the requirement of a formal textbook learning. When later on I do need a more formal and systematic math for my gifted child, we use Beestar online GT programs at beestar.org. Similar to this book, they are innovative and thoughtful.

Overall, this book is as good as I have hoped. Highly recommend.