HOW MANY JELLY BEANS?
Author: Andrea Menotti
Illustrator: Yancey Labat
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Number of pages: 28
Publisher: Chronicle Books (USA) First published in: 2012 Format: Picturebook Is the mathematical focus explicit in the story? Yes Is this story part of a mathematics story series? No Click here to preview and/or purchase this book via the Amazon (UK) website Synopsis by the author/publisher
How many jelly beans are enough? How many are too many? Aiden and Emma can't decide. Is ten enough? How about one thousand? That's a lot of jelly beans. But eaten over a whole year, it's only two or three a day! |
“"How many jelly beans would you like, Emma?" "Hmmm ..." "TEN!" "How about you, Aiden?" "TWENTY!"”
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Recommended age range:
6 years old +
Relevant mathematics topics:
Estimating; Large numbers
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Coming soon!
Recommended age range:
6 years old +
Relevant mathematics topics:
Estimating; Large numbers
Possible teaching activities:
At MathsThroughStories.org, we believe that stories can be meaningfully incorporated in mathematics teaching in different ways. Thus, we are inviting you to share your experience of how you have used this story in your mathematics lesson with other members of the community. By sharing your experience with us, you will be added to our team of On-line Contributors here, where you can also find our submission guideline.
