The Best of Times: Math Strategies That Multiply, (Hardcover)

from Ronneisha

This book can help students with multiplying. It shows different examples of how they can learn to multiply. I liked how he had a poem for every number before he showed the examples. He showed how 2 can be used to determine each numbers. Not only did the words and examples catch my attention, but...

from kgeorge

This book is all about multiplication. The author uses rhyme to teach kids strategies to multiply numbers up to 10. On every page there are two couplets that give the student the strategy. Then there are several examples employing the strategy. The author even includes a challenge problem at the ...

from ssandoe

The Best of Times is a book that includes short rhymes, one to a page, that tell students how to multiply by numbers one through twelve. As the book precedes students observe the wide variety of animals that Tang uses to show them that multiplication is more than memorization! I would recommend t...

from momma2

This started out fun like the previous books by this author however things got a little complicated. When presenting multiplication by five they ask the reader to first multiply by 10, something they don't cover until several pages later. And the trick for seven just seemed cumbersome. Otherwise ...

from Edwardlynn

Tang's text makes for a fun read-along, and illustrator Harry Briggs keeps things interesting with his computer-generated, animal-inspired pictures, with dancing chickens, ice-cream-flinging monkeys, and a fortunetelling cat. Each section ends with a couple of challenges, and a key in the back sp...