Just a Minute

Hello Reader! Math Level 2

by Teddy Slater, Marilyn Burns, Dana Regan (Illustrator)

A young boy learns how important it is to know just how long a minute is

Genres: Mathematics, Childrens, Picture Books, School

32 pages, Paperback

First published March 31, 1993

Reviews

[melhara]

Time is a very abstract concept for kids and this picture book helps parents navigate explaining what "wait a minute" or "in a minute" could mean in both a literal and metaphorical sense.

Catered for kids at the kindergarten level, this book also includes several activities to help kids understand the concept of time, including keeping track of time and estimating time, while also giving parents a way to gauge the child's grasp of how long (or short) the child thinks a 'minute' is (so that the next time you say "just minute!" the expectations are clear as to how long that "minute" is really going to be).

The more I think about it, the more I feel like this book would serve as an extremely useful teaching tool and guide for parents and educators.

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Part of a personal challenge to read all of my boyfriend's and his sister's childhood books before we donate and give them away.

[Sally]

Fun read about the concept of a minute.

[KaitandMaddie]

I expected the math but not the moralizing.

[Megan Rowland]

From the title, you know it is going to be a book about time. A little boy gets told by his family "just a minute" but takes longer. When it comes his turn and he says just a minute it back fires on him so then the family teaches him all the ways to define what a minute really is.

[Takeisha Hannor]

This book is good to teach children how to tell time. It is basically about a little boy who learns just what a minute is...he hears his family telling him all the time, "in just a minute." This book is very appropriate to teach beginning math.

[Megan Phillips]

Time is discussed in this book in a way that is easy for students to understand. It uses real life examples of things everyone does in a day and tells an actual amount of time it takes to complete them. Often we say just a minute, when that is not actually how long it will take.

[Oana Cerchezan]

I can use this book to explain what it means to not take things literally and what an expression is. I can ask them if they know an expression that they have heard and use.

[Kristina]

my daughter liked this book. we often say just a minute and it was a good way for us to discuss what it is meant to say just a minute. I would recommend this book to others.

[Laura]

Fred learns how long a minute really is.