Tyrannosaurus Math
Author: Michelle Markel
Illustrator: Doug Cushman
Published: 2009 by Scholastic Inc.
Genre: Fiction, Animals, Picture Book, Informative, and Mathematics
HORN BOOK REVIEW: (2)
Summary: This book is about a dinosaur family of Tyrannosauruses that learn to love math. One of the baby dinosaurs, T-Math was so good at understanding math and the different ways that math can help you through everyday life. His brothers and sisters never understood why T-Math was so obsessed with math until one day they got into a bad situation and needed T-Math’s skills to be able to measure the distance needed to save their sister. In the end, the entire family of dinosaurs had a love for math and understood how it can help them in understanding different things in their everyday lives.
Author: Michelle Markel
Illustrator: Doug Cushman
Published: 2009 by Scholastic Inc.
Genre: Fiction, Animals, Picture Book, Informative, and Mathematics
HORN BOOK REVIEW: (2)
Summary: This book is about a dinosaur family of Tyrannosauruses that learn to love math. One of the baby dinosaurs, T-Math was so good at understanding math and the different ways that math can help you through everyday life. His brothers and sisters never understood why T-Math was so obsessed with math until one day they got into a bad situation and needed T-Math’s skills to be able to measure the distance needed to save their sister. In the end, the entire family of dinosaurs had a love for math and understood how it can help them in understanding different things in their everyday lives.
Summary of Professional Reviews:
In the professional review given on the Horn Book Guide, the reviewer describes the book as being the perfect blend of dinosaur information, humor, and different concepts in math. The reviewer also described this book as engaging for the readers.
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Shelby Wetzel's Review:
I believe that this book was very informative in the information that was given by the author. She did not focus on one specific math topic, but she explained many different topics through the skills of T-Math. This book was informative and the illustrations were very detailed in the sense that it described what math fact was being talked about on that specific page.
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How to Use it in the Classroom:
This book can be used in Early Childhood classrooms when teaching a lesson on math and introducing the different properties of math. In this book, T-Math uses addition, subtraction, number sentences, inverse relations, symmetry, multiplication, reasoning, division, fractions, measurement, and estimation. This book could be used throughout the school year to reference back to when starting a new math topic.
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