One Some Many

by Marthe Jocelyn, Tom Slaughter (Illustrations)

One Some Many by Marthe Jocelyn and Tom Slaughter is an excellent early introduction to numbers and to the principles of modern art. It is the perfect companion to 1 2 3, a counting book with a difference. Slaughter’s bold, Matisse-inspired paper cuts illustrate basic artistic elements, including color, form, and line, while the playful and inventive text introduces the concepts of quantity that children find most puzzling (and that adults have the most difficulty explaining!). After all, how many is many? Some? A few?

Genres: Counting, Picture Books, Mathematics, Childrens

32 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Canadian born
22 books published for young readers"

Reviews

[Caroline · Rating 5 out of 5]

One Some Many
By Marthe Jocelyn
Illustrated by Tom Slaughter
Where's the Math?
This is a book about providing terms for naming quantities of objects. It also is a book that can be read by emerging readers. Children will gain understanding of everyday descriptive terms used for quantity such as "few" "many" or "some" The bold pictures and text display the concepts in an engaging and playful way (i.e. a few is three, or four, or more). The book also includes addition problems such as "plus one is six then seven" - these are all words that children will be hearing as they grow older, and the pictures provide attractive support so that children can understand the concepts. This book would also be specifically helpful for English language learners.
Genre: Concept/Picture Book
Features of Print: Matisse-inspired paper cuts. Bold, large text
Cultural Considerations: Any
Open-ended Question: Can you think of many things we have in this classroom? What's a few things you have at home?
Extension Activity: Children could participate in a few/many/some game where the teacher helps one specific child call on "some children, many children, a few children, or maybe a simple addition problem by using their classmates as they stand together in a circle. For example, a child could say: I need [5 different children's names] to get in the middle of the circle. Now I need [child's name] to enter the circle. What's my problem? Then other children could guess. Children could do the same with different objects as well.

[Alise Durkota · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is very simple. It is most appropriate for k-1st. It uses simple pisture to show how much is one, some many, a couple, a few, ect. It may also be a good review towards the end of 1st grade before you introduce other "higher" math terms like largest, smallest, greater, more than, less than, ect.

[Michaela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great for younger grades, maybe Pre-K through 1st. Vivid images show how much is one, some, many, a couple, and a few. Could be used when introducing terms like greater than, less than, larger, smaller, -est words, etc.

[Lorraine Robinson · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book would be beneficial for younger aged students to explain the differences between some, many, and few. Can also be used to determine greater or less than. Pictures in the book can be used as different representations of shapes.

[D'metria · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book would be good for teaching the standard language for numbers, such as, a couple, a few, some, and many. This is also a good book for teaching one more than and one less than, leading up into addition.

[Deb · Rating 3 out of 5]

Colorful, eye catching, familiar objects to count. Loads of fund for beginner readers.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very cute, simple graphics, counts to ten plus some other concepts like some and many and few.

[Susan · Rating 4 out of 5]

bright and colorful and also helpful with the mysterious "a few" that some children have difficulty grasping.

[Christy · Rating 4 out of 5]

One, a few, some, many -- counts to ten. One is only one.

[Maria Alm · Rating 3 out of 5]

Colorful images introducing a few, a lot, many, one, two, three...to the youngest children.

[Ecl Storytellers · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a concept book and could be helpful teaching the meaning of some, many, few, none at all. Very bold images in primary colors.

[Jj · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great introduction to math concepts that are not always talked about in early childhood as they can and should be. These are so common in everyday life and conversation that children are exposed to them from birth, yet they are not often defined to very young children who are only starting to understand language and word meaning.

[Jessalyn Plant · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book's bold artwork and vibrant colors always holds my son's attention. He likes it a bit less than the proper counting one, but it is still good.

[KaitandMaddie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great for babies.

[Ms. Madalyn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very few words, probably too young for my storytimes.

[Miss Janis the Storytime Lady · Rating 2 out of 5]

not for little-littles. pres can count and identify colors and shapes