One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J Pinczes, Elinor Pinczes
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Book Reviews of One Hundred Hungry Ants
Book Review: math can be fun
Summary: 4 Stars
I am a current Pima College student. The book was read to a class of second graders. They seemed very receptive of the fact that it rhymed(in fact they loved it). I asked one student named caitlyn, if she understood the math concept it taught. She said she did not realize math was involved. So although the concept is somewhat suttle to children I think this book would be a great introduction to division. So i would recomend this book to anyone with kids or to teachers.Book Review: One hundred Hungry
Summary: 4 Stars
One Hundred Hungry Ants
One hundred hungry ants marching in a row, going to a picnic-but were they too slow? I enjoyed this book as much as the kids I read it to did. Reading its bubbly rhymed verses made it a fun book to read. One Hundred Hungry Ants gives young readers a great visual for math. This book can be used in many ways for counting, multiplication, division and money. Were they too slow? You'll have to read to know.
Book Review: They use this book at my child's school to teach math concepts.
Summary: 4 Stars
This book was sent home with 100 unifex cubes to use along with the book. We used the cubes as the ants. We started off with one line of 100 cubes (as the ants). Then, in the story, they split into 2 lines of 50, so we split our cubes, too. Then, 4 lines of 25, and so on.... Excellent book to use with the cubes to demonstract how many different ways to make 100.Book Review: loved the art but not the ending...
Summary: 2 Stars
I really wanted to like this book and it had me up until the last couple of pages.
The art is great & I like the tempo of the story as the ants divide into shorter & shorter rows in order to make better time but the ending is a total let down!
The story leaves you with the impression that math is useless and is a waste of time. The ants reap no reward for doing the smart thing and are even mad at the little ant that suggested dividing up. The ending implies that they would have made it to the picnic in time if only they hadn't wasted all that time dividing into shorter rows - ultimately not a positive math message at all.
I like a good quirky kids story where thing don't end the way you might expect & not everyone is nice but this one falls short of quirky & just ends on a bad note.
Book Review: Falls short, and a negative message about math
Summary: 1 Stars
I bought this book after reading all of the positive reviews. I hate to be a grouch, but I am disappointed and will return the book for the following reasons: First, children need repetition to learn. Instead of merely showing the ants running around to rearrange themselves with each division and then going on to the next, the book should reiterate the new number of rows and how many are in each. More importantly, the message of the story is negative. It shows that the divisions were a waste of time, and the smart little ant who knew how to divide is scorned by all his ant-friends in the end. That is certainly not something I will read to my already math-apprehensive niece. Adults may be able to extract business lessons out of the story, as one reviewer wrote, but if the intent is to teach math concepts to young children, the message should be that math is useful, valuable, and fun. On a less important note, another reason I am disappointed in the book is that the rhyming meter is quite poor.