Apple Fractions

by Donna Townsend

Presents an introduction to fractions, using apples to demonstarte how to divide things into parts.

Genres: Mathematics, Nonfiction

31 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2004

Reviews

[Diana]

Cute, clever, and well designed. It does a nice job of introducing fractions in a way kids can understand. Useless as a read-aloud, sadly, but great for kids to read alone or one-on-one. Follow up with some actual apples and it's golden! The page about the last muffin cracked me up. :)

[K Morlando]

A good resource for our math lessons.

[Trang]

This is a great book to use to introduce fractions to a young audience. It gives great real life pictures and situations where students can find fractions. It also simplifies fractions so that students can begin to understand fractions.

I would use this book as an introduction to fractions for a second grade class. I would have them try to think about real life things and situations where they may find factions and have them share with the class.

[Asha Smith]

This is a good read aloud book. It is good to introduce fractions. It is not a hard read and the children can read it on their own too. I liked that it used apples because apples are things children eat often and can relate to. The only thing is that it only uses a few fractions. A whole, a half and a fourth. But it is a good way to start your math lesson as an introduction.

[Anna]

I was trying to find a good picture book that deals with fractions that I could read aloud to my students and this is NOT it...

[Nik]

I liked when the girl got to eat the apple.

[Theresa]

Apple Fractions (Paperback)
by Donna Townsend
good early reader
math concepts

[Kristen Scott]

This is a good read aloud book. It is good to introduce fractions.

[Christina]

My son is 24 months and he loves this book. I love that it is a gentle, simplistic introduction to fractions. It has some humor at the end and great photos. Highly recommended.