Multiplication on the Farm

Math All Around

by Jennifer Rozines Roy, Gregory Roy

Reinforces multiplication and critical thinking skills, and provides a better understanding of the use of real-world math through examples involving the running of a farm.

Genres: Childrens

32 pages, Library Binding

First published June 1, 2006

About the author

Jennifer Rozines Roy (see also Jennifer Roy) is an American children's writer. She is best known for fiction including Yellow Star, which won a Boston Globe-Horn Book Honor Award (2006), Sydney Taylor Honor Award, The William Allen White Children's Book Award (2009), a New York Public L Book, an ALA Notable Book, National Jewish Book Honor Award, and received starred reviews in Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, VOYA and Booklist. She has written 35 educational books for children ages 5–16, including the "You Can Write" series.
Her latest book is Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein (February 2018), inspired by the true story of a young boy growing up in Iraq under the first Gulf war. Her Co-author Ali Fadhil was that boy and he grew up to be a translator in the trial of Saddam Hussein.
Her first illustrated book is "Jars of Hope", (August 2015). She is also the coauthor of the Trading Faces series (Simon and Schuster), a series co-written with her twin sister, Julia DeVillers. The second book in the series is Take Two, the third book is Times Squared, and the fourth is "Double Feature". The fifth book in the series is "Triple Trouble". Her book MindBlind, about a boy who is profoundly gifted and has Asperger syndrome, was published in October 2010 and received a YALSA award.

Reviews

[Cya]

This book shows multiplication on the farm. It's a good book for beginning multiplication. I could use it for a math station with farm animal to multiply with repeated addition.

[Fred Conrad · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very engaging and covers the foundational concepts and terminology.