A Quarter From The Tooth Fairy

Hello Reader! Math Level 3

by Caren Holtzman, Betsy Day (Illustrator), Marilyn Burns (Math Activities )

A boy has trouble deciding how to spend the quarter he gets from the Tooth Fairy.

Genres: Mathematics, Childrens, Picture Books, Money

40 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1995

Reviews

[Chloe Jackson · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Quarter from the Tooth Fairy, is a great story for children who are in 1st or 2nd grade learning about the different ways to represent money. The boy in the story gets a quarter from the tooth fairy and the boy exchanges the quarter for different items. But when the boy decides he wants his money back he gets it in another set of coins. With this story, the children can draw the different ways that a quarter can be represented with different coins.

[Jennie Park]

I would love to use this book to read to student before a math lesson about money. The book can help students understand how different coins can make up the same amount of money. This would be a lot more beneficial than doing worksheet after worksheet about money and coins.

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a humorous, rhyming story about a boy who gets a quarter from the tooth fairy and changes his mind numerous times about how to spent it. The story is simple, but entertaining and I liked that twenty-five cents is depicted in numerous ways. I thought it was a good, but basic review on money and our girls thought the story was fun and silly (and that the boy should've gotten more money for his tooth!) The math activities at the end are helpful for parents who want to expand on the lesson more.

[Kayla Schum · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was about a little boy who recieved a quarter from the tooth fairy. Throughout the book he is exchanging the quarter for things and then deciding he wants the money back. Everytime he gets his money back it is in the form of another set of coins. This book would be very beneficial in the classroom to help with math skills and realizing that just because it isnt in the form of a quarter doesnt mean it isnt $0.25.

[Jeri Ramos]

Beautiful child's book

[Amanda Schwind · Rating 4 out of 5]

Helpful for demonstration or introducing equivalent amounts of coins.

[J · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is a book that explores not only math but the usage of money in our lives even as kids. And as a result our narrator who is a little boy tells how he spontaneously buys things over and over again but then changes his mind while wanting his money back. As a result he then receives that same change back but in different variations.

To be truthful I would have given the book only one star just since even though the mathematical concept is good and I really appreciate the offered activities there was just so much I didn't agree with. The book was sloppy and irresponsible about impulse buying while also not covering the truth in some cases in which you may not be able to get your money back even if you regret the decision that you made. Due to those reasons alone I would avoid it for my child.

Otherwise the concept of the book was good. It was given in simple to read and easy to understand writing that had a bit of a rhyming tone to go along with it. On this par it is very simple to "I Can Read" books. Furthermore the book is also illustrated with bright colorful pictures while doing a great job in showing the coins that are being used.

The other thing that I enjoyed about the book was the math activities given as they allow the child and caregiver to explore not only the worth of money but how to distinguish it from one another, to learn about it by sensory input instead of just looking at it and to learn how to count change while giving a strong basis for an introduction to money, especially coins.

[Kris Dersch · Rating 1 out of 5]

This one annoyed me.
First of all it rhymes. Badly. Like really badly.
Secondly, this kid goes all over town returning everything he's purchased and totally getting a refund. Really? For a sticker? Because he doesn't want it anymore? First of all, never gonna happen, and secondly, not the money management lesson I want to teach.
Badly written, badly illustrated. I guess there's a decent lesson on math in there (if not on what you can expect to buy for a quarter) but I could do that better than this. Ick.

[Tammy · Rating 3 out of 5]

A good story for learning about money changing, but by the time I was learning money like this I found this kind of repetition getting old.

[Abigail · Rating 5 out of 5]

I have read A Quarter From The Tooth Fairy (Hello Math Reader Level 3) by Caren Holtzman plenty of times, and I must say, I have found plenty of good and positive things to say about it.

From my perspective, the quarter is an awesome place for the story to begin; it symbolizes the story’s starting place. Although the boy in the story changed his mind over and over more than once, he learned about how many kinds of coins make up the amount of 25 cents (which is precisely how much a quarter is, as most of us know and remember).

Also, the things he bought were pretty neat: a monster (from Mary) (which did sound kind of odd, but neat nonetheless), a spaceship pencil (from the toy store), a pair of goggles (from Lupe) and a sticker (from the zoo). Finally, he trades the quarter he got from returning the sticker to the zoo for the tooth he’d originally left underneath his pillow, and that is a superbly awesome way to end the story.

This book is amazing, neat and highly well-written too. Plus, I highly recommend it, and I give it five stars (although ten stars would be great too). 😎📔

[Jenna]

This book is all about the different toys and activities a kid can afford using his quarter her got from the tooth fairy! He spends the quarter and uses 25 cents in a bunch of different coin combonations, good for learning coins.

[Aleisha Pendleton · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an adorable book that will helps students not only with reading but with math! This book does a great job at showing children the different ways to make a quarter. It would be a great way to incorporate reading into a math lesson.

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[Teri · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great! Fun way to learn lots of different ways to make 25 cents. Good math book!

[Brittany N · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book can be used to show the different ways to come up with 25 cents. This book could also be used to relate to a child who has recently lost a tooth.