Place Value Paperback – Picture Book, January 30, 2017

This book does a great job of explaining why we have place value. It has an analogy between letters and digits, and helps to explain how a digit has different values based on position, just the way that a word is different if the letters are scrambled. My child often asks why we have a base-10 system (about why there are zeros etc) and this book also provides an explanation. I've also told him that there were base-4 systems that counted the spaces between the fingers. I wish that the author had discussed the importance of zero as a concept.The pictures follow the story of monkeys setting up a cafe and cooking one giant cupcake. I think that the illustrations are cute and they also help to introduce the idea of using math to bake.

This is a great read aloud starting the unit review on Place Value.

This is great for kids! My kids used this all the time and it actually helped them with place value.

Not quite what I was looking for. Perfect for 2-older grades, but not for 1st or K.

Cute math book

Great book. My son has struggled with number placement and this book is structured just right to help him understand. I’m getting results and he’s enjoying it. Thanks for putting this together.

This book got stale real fast with my class. I lost their attention, I just think it went over their head. Maybe better for later in year with first grade.

This book was perfect for my first and second-grade math library. Place value seemed to be a difficult concept for some of my students to remember, and this was very helpful!