Building With Blocks: Work With 11-19 to Gain Foundations for Place Value

by Matt Dennison

Accessible narratives make learning the skills of composing and decomposing numbers fun for beginning math students. Simple text allows readers to explore these crucial concepts on their own. Colorful images help them visualize place value in a way that is both educational and engaging. Readers discover the basics of place value as they explore how to compose numbers through working with blocks. This volume, which adheres to the Common Core State Standards, directly addresses standard K.NBT.A.1. This book should be paired with "Bree's Building Blocks" (9781477716717) from the Rosen Math Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.

16 pages, Paperback

First published August 1, 2013

About the author

Matt Dennison was born in Crawfordsville, Indiana. After a rather extended and varied second childhood in New Orleans (psych tech, steamboat worker, street musician, legal secretary, house painter, and door-to-door poetry peddler), he completed his undergraduate degree at Mississippi State University, where he won the national Sigma Tau Delta critical essay competition (as judged by X.J. Kennedy). Dennison currently lives in Columbus, MS, where he continues to write and publish poetry and fiction in journals such as Cider Press Review, Natural Bridge, Main Street Rag, and Rattle.