Blog Post 3

1. The book I chose write about was the grapes of math. This book addresses symmetries and tries to teach kids how to group things together and solve equations without simply counting the number of objects up. It teaches young kids how to form and equation for the number of objects in the picture instead of simply making them count. The book goes through several different scenarios where readers are challenged to form a mathematical equation to solve the problem at hand. The problem will entail a question such as "how many holes do you see?" while reinforcing "just count the prairie dogs and subtract from the rest" to encourage more critical thinking to solve mathematical equations.

2. The book addresses symmetries but also puts an emphasis on how one is to set up an equation and get the same result as you would with counting the number of objects. The book also showed one how to look carefully at a picture to solve a problem. This book clearly shows how one can look at symmetrical pictures and be able to construct a mathematical equation to solve the task at hand.

3. I think this is effective because it shows how kids can grasp hold of mathematical concepts at a very young age and develop mathematical equations to solve problems without having to stop and count how many objects there are when they can just solve the equation in their head by looking at the symmetries of a picture. The book does a great job of stating what is effective for young students. This is a book that could prove very beneficial to many young math students.