Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Math terpeices
Math-terpieces
By: Greg Tang
Illustrated By; Greg Paprocki
Summary:
Every child has to learn math at some point in their life. After the counting stage is over, the math is more of a tedious task to many. As I was looking for more educatial tools to help with math, I found Math-terpieces at a discount store. Hey for a dollar why not give it a try and so I did. This book turned out to be amazing.
To start off with, this specific book helps children problem solve and learn addition. Each page spread is dedicated to both art and math getting the children interested in learning. On the left side of the page is a famous painting with some background and a short poem. It ends off with a math riddle that has to be solved using the illustrations on the right side of the page.
For example pages 10 and 11 are dedicated to Post - Impressionist painter Paul Cezanne. The painting featured is called "Still Life with Commode". The poem on bottom reads:
For Paul Cezanne, still lifes would do,
a cloth, a vase, and peaches, too.
His planes of color, pure and bright,
so smartly capture from and light.
Can you make 10 with bowls of fruit?
Fine all five ways if you are astute!
On the left side of the page is bowls with different number peaches. The bowls have 5,3,1,2,6, and 4. Now it is up to the child to group together the peaches to make five.
Pros:
- Math
- Abstract reasoning
- Addition
- Problem solving
- Art
- Poetry
Cons:
- Nothing really. We have had a lot of fun with this book.
Suggestions:
- Since many artist have a theme, go online and select an artist. Have your child compare two of the paintings. For example if you chose Edgar Degas, have your child count the ballerinas in his painting. After they count, they can add together how many ballerinas they saw.
- Cover the pages with the images and read to your child the poem. After that ask them to write on a piece of paper different ways to come up with the number. For example if the number is five, your child might come up with 3 and 2, or 1 and 4.
Age Range:
- 6-9
- Child who loves math
- Child learning addition
Bottom Line:
I got this book when my little one was only five years old and we loved it. She not only learned about art and math, but the two together helped her lean more abstract reasoning and problem solving. It is a lot of fun and we both got to sit down and work together. This book beats the old black and white word problems.
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