Millions, Billions, & Trillions: Understanding Big Numbers, (Paperback)

from leighle5

Millions, Billions, & Trillions: Understanding Big Numbers, is a concept book that was written to be aligned with the fourth grade Common Core Standards related to Number and Operations in Base 10. The book explores the larger numbers are gives students a visualization (sometimes physical, mostly...

from VaterOlsen

Good physical example of one million. Uses of large numbers. Silly examples. Illustrations are do not reach my expectations.

from ktnguyen

The authors have extensive background in writing children's books. David Adler is a former math teacher. He has written over two hundred children's books. Adler and Miller attempt to explain the concept of very large numbers to children. The inside flap of the book with a provocative question of ...

from abbylibrarian

This book succinctly and graphically explains huge numbers like millions, billions, and trillions. Want to have a concept of what a million is? Take a quarter cup of sugar and pour it out onto a piece of dark construction paper. You have about a million grains of sugar there. The book uses solid ...

from jlaurendine

This is a simple way to explain to small children a concept that is hard for even some adults to grasp. It has great examples of how to understand a concept that is foreign to many.