How Do You Share With Your Friends?: A Math Book About Fractions, Decimals, & Percents

by Lucy D Hayes, Srimalie Bassani (Illustrator)

Have you ever tried to share your favorite treat with friends but didn't know how to split it up evenly?
A basic explanation of fractions, decimals, and percents and how we use them every single day is explored through diagrams, photos, and informative and engaging text in this newest addition to the How Do series.

About the How Do These fully-illustrated nonfiction picture books are a great introduction to various STEM topics. Each title includes facts and figures, simple diagrams and hilarious illustrations and is written in a question-and-answer format to encourage readers to ask questions and guess the answers before exploring the science behind the correct answers.

Genres: Nonfiction, Picture Books

32 pages, Paperback

Published September 5, 2023

Reviews

[Kailey (Luminous Libro) · Rating 5 out of 5]

We use fractions and percents in our everyday lives without even realizing it. We use fractions to tell time, saying "half an hour". We use decimals to calculate money when we buy or sell something. We can even use these math skills to divide up the work between friends, cut up slices of cake to share, or run a lemonade stand and split the profits.

I really liked how this book makes math simple and fun. There are so many everyday scenarios where we need to use fractions or decimals, and we can even use them interchangeably for the same amounts. Some of the examples are hilarious as the characters have to do their chores, or clean up the kitchen, or eat a pizza. If they only do half the chores, or eat 1/4 of the pizza, they are using their math skills!

This is such a fun book! I love the cute illustrations and funny characters. The information is clearly explained step by step in a playful way that makes it memorable.

Disclaimer: I received a copy of this book from the publisher in exchange for a free and honest review. All the opinions stated here are my own true thoughts, and are not influenced by anyone.

[Ryan · Rating 1 out of 5]

Incorrect mathematics warning: It might seem like a small issue, but this book repeatedly uses notation like "$0.25 cents" instead of either "$0.25" or "25 cents" which sets children up for failure later on, since 0.25 cents is in fact one fourth of a cent.

[Barbara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Adorable child-friendly illustrations and relevant examples from everyday life make this short introduction to fractions, decimals, and percents attractive and useful for math lessons or even some lessons at home in the kitchen or workplace. There are cakes to divide as well as pizza to prepare and examples of squares to color in order to show what a percent might look like. The examples are creative, especially compared to what I'd probably have colored in. This is a good addition for any elementary math classroom. Digesting its contents might even keep some students from arguing over how unfairly something delicious has been divided.

[Beth · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent functional explanation of math terms in an engaging way.