Math Excitement!

Our class has been enjoying the exciting math e-books by Greg Tang together.  While reading Math for all Seasons, the children discovered a few hidden items that weren't counted.  They all agreed we should write to the author and ask why he didn't include them in the total count on that page.  He emailed us right back!  They were so excited!  Here is our email exchange...

Dear Mr. Tang,

We are really enjoying your website and books.  They are fun.

When we were reading "Math for All Seasons" we noticed something on the baby oak page.  There were two acorns you did not count.  One was in the squirrels pocket and the other was below the writing.  Why didn't you count those?  Please write us back.

Sincerely,

The Columbus Torah Academy 2nd grade

Greg Tang	8:31 AM (2 hours ago)
to me

Hello!

You are right, maybe I should have counted them. Or better yet, I should have asked the illustrator to remove those extra 2. My intent was for only the acorns in the scene on the left page to be included. That way, kids can group 2 acorns with 3 acorns to make groups of 5 acorns and then quickly count by 5.

All of your second graders are very observant! Hope you like the rest of my books and try Kakooma when you're ready. It's my favorite game!

Thanks for writing,

Greg

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Wow!  What a great experience for them.  Check out the website gregtangmath.com and click on the book Math for All Seasons and you can see what we saw.

Here are a few photos of our students enjoying another of Mr. Tang's ebooks - they have loved this way of improving their number sense!