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The Multiplying Menace Divides (Math Adventures) by Calvert, Pam (2011) Paperback
PRumpelstiltskin is back, causing more menace with extra help from his sidekick, the witch Matilda. Together they're dividing the kingdom into frogs. It's up to prince Peter and his dog, Zero, to find a solution that will break the Great Divide and bring everything back to normal. This math adventure explains simple division, division of fractions, and division rules for equations involving the number zero.
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First published January 1, 2011
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Pam Calvert
14 books95 followersI'm a children's author--have six picture books and some easy readers. More picture books on the way! My newest picture book is BRIANNA BRIGHT BALLERINA KNIGHT!
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April 20, 2012
This is a fun book for third and fourth grade students to practice division. In the story Rumpelstiltskin is back wreaking havoc on a village. This time, using division. It's up to Peter and his dog zero to save the town. The book talks about many different aspects of division. It includes dividing whole numbers, dividing fractions, and what to do when dividing with zero. You can use this in the classroom by giving children a variety of scenarios in which the classroom is disrupted or changed because of division, such as the village was in the story. It will be up to the students to solve the division problems and right the wrongs in the classroom.
June 13, 2012
This is a fun story that teaches about division by whole numbers as well as fractions. It is the second of two stories featuring Peter and his family in an After Happily Ever After-type of story, where we rejoin the characters from a classic fairytale after some time has passed. In this tale, Rumpelstiltskin joins up with the witch Matilda to make trouble in the kingdom.
The story is entertaining and I thought it was a novel way to teach about what fractions do to numbers when dividing. The math wasn't terribly difficult and our girls enjoyed solving the problems, too. We didn't like this tale quite as much as we liked Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin, but overall we enjoyed reading this story together. I love it when we find a story that is both educational and entertaining!
The story is entertaining and I thought it was a novel way to teach about what fractions do to numbers when dividing. The math wasn't terribly difficult and our girls enjoyed solving the problems, too. We didn't like this tale quite as much as we liked Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin, but overall we enjoyed reading this story together. I love it when we find a story that is both educational and entertaining!
May 21, 2014
I read this with my students while teaching 5.NF.B.7.b - Interpret division of a whole number by a unit fraction, and compute such quotients.
I like how it gives a strong visual of what division actually is - parceling a number into equal groups. There is only 1 page where they divide by fractions, but I found it was valuable reference - especially because it shows even though there are more pieces, those pieces are smaller. I like that it provided a small challenge at the end which reminded the students that dividing anything by itself equals one.
One thing that might perpetuate a misconception is the fact that the dog's name is Zero. The big climax comes when the witch divides the dog Zero by the number zero and breaks the operation staff. It's a clever way to show that division by zero is impossible, but some might be confused and think that dividing zero is also impossible.
Overall, the students enjoyed it and I intend to use it again next year!
I like how it gives a strong visual of what division actually is - parceling a number into equal groups. There is only 1 page where they divide by fractions, but I found it was valuable reference - especially because it shows even though there are more pieces, those pieces are smaller. I like that it provided a small challenge at the end which reminded the students that dividing anything by itself equals one.
One thing that might perpetuate a misconception is the fact that the dog's name is Zero. The big climax comes when the witch divides the dog Zero by the number zero and breaks the operation staff. It's a clever way to show that division by zero is impossible, but some might be confused and think that dividing zero is also impossible.
Overall, the students enjoyed it and I intend to use it again next year!
September 29, 2011
Nice. I think I need to find this one to own, as it needs multiple readings before my younger kids will begin to grasp some of the math concepts in this. BUT it definitely cleared some things in my head and gave me better understanding. Ha ha! ( :
November 29, 2011
This is just like its' counter part only with division. I like how it uses fractions as well as whole numbers.
October 20, 2013
What a wonderful book!! The plot could be independent from the math portion of the story. I also loved that the book taught a math concept and didn't just mention math.
May 14, 2017
Sometimes using math picture books is helpful as a way to introduce a topic to kids or to jolt their thinking in another direction if they seem stuck. This book could be used in either of those situations when teaching division. The book has fun with dividing by whole numbers and fractions. It also has an allusion to the Frog Prince (for figurative language purposes) and it helps introduce some good math vocabularly.
July 16, 2020
Makes math fun!
July 24, 2021
Good story
Read aloud with good voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EKWk...
Read aloud with good voice:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EKWk...
August 27, 2014
This review is from: The Multiplying Menace Divides (Math Adventures) (Paperback)
I think it's rather brilliant of this author to write entertaining books about math for small children. The illustrations are cute but feel a bit amateurish. I do think that children would love them. The story is cute. Though it feels a bit pedantic, I liked it.
I think it's rather brilliant of this author to write entertaining books about math for small children. The illustrations are cute but feel a bit amateurish. I do think that children would love them. The story is cute. Though it feels a bit pedantic, I liked it.
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