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You Can Count on Monsters
By Schwartz, Richard B.
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-1-56881-578-7
- Publisher
- A K Peters
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on June 1, 2010
Gr 4-8 This hybrid math/art book is both ambitious and imaginative. An introductory section explains the colored-dot configurations and factor trees for numbers 1 to 100, which appear on the verso of each spread. These factor trees are "all the way grown out" to the lowest common factors, or prime numbers. On the opposite page is a monster scene that represents the number. Schwartz has created a creature for each prime number: "Each monster has something about it that relates to its number, but someti...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
