More M&M's Brand Chocolate Candies Math

by Barbara Barbieri McGrath, Roger Glass

Rhyming text and illustrations use candy to teach mathematical skills and concepts such as estimation, graph interpretation, division, multiplication, factoring, and problem solving

Genres: Mathematics, Picture Books, Childrens, Poetry, Nonfiction

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

Reviews

[Cassandra · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book would be great to use with a class. It uses M&M's to help children learn math. The book covers graphing, adding and subtracting, dividing and multiplying, and ordinal numbers. The book briefly takes students through the steps for each topic. I also liked this book because it is all done in rhyme. At the end of the book, there is a small review section as well.

I would use this book by having the class do exactly what the book says. Instead of using the numbers in the book, I would actually give each student a bag of M&M's and let them each do the activities on their own. This way, they would be able to see how it all works with different numbers.

I could also use this book in a center. Instead of guiding them through the book myself, I would let the students work together with a partner to do the activities in the book. Each pair would turn in a paper with their results.

[Alexis Levine · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this book because it's great to use in class to help children understand math in a fun way! Children can count using multiplication, addition, subtraction, and even division using m&m's as a visual. I would use this book with 5-8 year olds depending on the math concept. I love, love, love this book because it's so easy to do a math lesson as you read this book because it basically tells you step-by-step what to do for the lesson.

[Aurora · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book I could almost eat! Yum.

[Pamela Hatch · Rating 4 out of 5]

More M&M's Brand Chocolate Candies Math / by Barbara Barbieri McGrath; illustrated by Roger Glass -- Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge Publishing, c1988. (32 pages) CURRICULUM-CHOCOLATE

SUMMARY: Guess, sort, graph, and compare, then put your math skills to the test using the tastiest chocolates around. (book jacket)

Includes: estimation of numbers, sort colors, graphing different colors into sets, some addition, subtraction, divide and multiply. Best part is the graphing part. ACTIVITY: Add figuring average of how much of each color there is.

REVIEW: The rhyming text is not necessary but moves you through this advanced maths concept book. Talks about estimating, graphing, sorting, adding, multiplying, dividing while enjoying eating an M&M or two.

FURTHER FUN: Get your own bags of M&Ms and follow along.
Next level of fun after reading: THE M&M's BRAND CHOCOLATE CANDIES COUNTING BOOK by same author

[Amber Lewis · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading this book and seeing how it took a math lesson on graphing. It uses the four basic math operations, and made it fun for children to learn. The book has an interesting element of being written in rhyme, so not only is there a fun activity incorporated in the story, but it is also fun for children to listen to. I think this book is great to use with children because it allows them to do something hands on, instead of doing something out of a math book or listening to the teacher talk. When finished with the book, you could have students create their own math problem and use the M&M's to graph it.

[Quynh Le · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book uses something that most students are familiar with, M&Ms, to talk about multiplications, divisions, grouping, and even the idea of graphing. In class, students can participate in an interactive activity using real M&Ms. One idea could involve students dividing all the different M&Ms into the different colors, and as we go around the room, students have to decide how they can make it so that they'll have equal groups of blue M&Ms and red M&Ms, etc. Afterwards, student can then use multiplication to see how many blue and red M&Ms they have as a whole class.

[Ashley Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a grat book to use in math in grades k-5. This book focus on all the differnt functions of math. It talks about addition, multiplication, subtraction, division, probability, etc. This book is very engaging. What student doesnt want to do math with m&ms.While doing different lesson, whether it be division, multiplication or math I would use m&ms as the manipulatves to grab the students attention and keep them engaged.

[Ashley P. · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really like how this book incorporates graphing. I think that it would be a great springboard read before a lesson on graphing. Students could use actual mandm's and graph their own data, data provided by teachers, or data from the book. I think it would be cool to make predictions regarding different classroom statistics, graph these (for exp, kids with blue, gree, and brown eyes, or siblings of students) and then compare predictions with the actual stats.

[Mimi]

More M&M's exposes children to a lot of different math concepts. It would be great to use for sorting, graphing, and creating patterns. It could also be good for students to use to gain 1 to 1 correspondence. The obvious activity would be to bring in M&M's and have students use them throughout the reading of the story. I would also use skittles for this in case any students were allergic to chocolate.

[Alyce Dougan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book would be absolutely wonderful for a math lesson. This book teaches children how to multiply, add, subtract, divide,make a graphs, and about ordinal numbering. The best part of reading/practicing with this book is using the m&m's as manipulatives. I would recommend this to elementary teachers.

[Samantha · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was very nice. It helps kids learn by letting them use M&M's as manipulatives. I used to love manipulatives when I was in school, so I thought this book would be fun. It really was. I pulled out a bag of M&M's, sat down, and I got to work. This book gives a great satisfaction in the end. =)

[Neionie Pulido · Rating 5 out of 5]

Using a teacher lens to review this book I found some great ideas for math activites. I like them because they are fun hands on activites. They include texts to add divide subtract, multiply and graph m&ms. The book uses child friendly language and also it can include the ability to eat some right in the lesson. I would love to use this as a springboards for a math activity in my future classroom

[Evelyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great book to teach math in a fun and innovative way. Students will be able to practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division by using candy such as M&Ms. This book can be used for students in 1-5 grade. The book can help teachers come up with many math lessons using M&Ms as a manipulative to learn math.

[Kalisha Mohammed · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an excellent book that includes many math activities for estimating, sorting by color, graphing by color, addition, subtracting, factoring, multiplication, problem solving, and division. Depending on what I am teaching in my classroom, I would use the activities provided in the book for math centers and allow my students to eat the candy afterwards for a treat.

[Sarwat · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a fun book for any elementary grade class. In this book, it uses M & M's as a manipulative. This book could be used to teach counting, sorting, graphing, adding, subtracting, and estimation. However, since it teaches so many concepts, it could be a little overwhelming for students and might cause confusion.

[Madison Bopp · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book can be used for all elementary levels for skills such as shapes, counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, fractions, estimation, and measuring. For my class, I would read this story and have students graph different colors of m&m's that were talked about in the story to see what colors are talked about the most.

[Chanae Wills · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is about different ways to graph, sort, divide, multiply, and use various other math skills with M&M’s. I would use this book to teach my students about sorting, multiplying, graphing, dividing, and estimating. I would also use M&M’s to do different activities using these important math skills.

[Kirsten Blau · Rating 5 out of 5]

Who wouldn't love this book? When reading about math and chocolate in the same book math becomes ten times more appealing. I remember whenever chocolate was involved in math class I tended to pay more attention so I would be able to eat them afterwards. I think using M&M's as a tool to help students understand math can be fun and enjoyable.

[Jordan Coffman · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great concept book, the grade level 2nd to 4th. The curriculum connection would definitely be math. The only concern I would have is if you were doing an activity with this book that involved M&M's and someone couldn't have chocolate other then that no concerns. Math can sometimes not be any fun but using M&M's to solve problems can be.

[Frank · Rating 3 out of 5]

Frank and I started doing M&M math before I knew such a book existed. There were a couple of new ideas in this book that we hadn't already done. M&M math is a great way to trick kids into doing math.

[Joey Fong · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great teaching tool for Math lessons that involves addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, ordinal numbers and graphing. The M&M's characters explains the procedures of these math concept using rhyming format that is more approachable to young learners.

[Patricia · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a nice way to introduce the concepts of grouping, graphing, multiplication, and division to children. We used it for home-school math. It translates into a very nice hands-on activity with a bag of M & M's or any other less tasty or sugary set of manipulative.

[Sandra Vicars · Rating 4 out of 5]

Who doesn't like M&M's candies! This text can be used with a bag of M&Ms, paper and pencil to learn about graphing, multiplication, addition, subtraction and division. It can also be used to learn colors and even just enjoying a few morsels.

[Jessica Chambliss · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is awesome! What child doesn't like relating m&m's and math all in one! This book help children with addition, subtraction, multiplication and even the beginning steps to division! Many different problems and situations all to help children learn math through many different activities!

[Wendy · Rating 5 out of 5]

This would be a great book to use in any number of math lessons...addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, graphing...the list goes on. This would be a super engaging lesson because the manipulative would be M&M's, something most students love.

[Katie O'Toole · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book has a specific exercise on each page for a student to do. I would copy the pages for each student, or a pair of students, and have the students do the activity (make a line graph of each color in their m&m bag.

[Britt D. · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was a fun book. I can use this book in teaching about graphs and estimation. I would also try to bring in m&m's to go with the book. I believe students will enjoy the lesson because it will incorporate candy and learning. Just reading the book made me want some m&m's.

[Shara Eddy · Rating 2 out of 5]

The book should most likely be used as a review as it has activities students can interact with for addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and estimation. The book seemed very broad which could be confusing. Also, the m&m's would be engaging but the colors could be confusing as well.

[Randi Erickson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved how this book introduced real-bar graphs (actually using the M&M to place inside each grid), and think it could be used for 2-5 to introduce bar graphs. This is an easy was to introduce making comparisons using a bar graph.

[Enasia Lee]

This book is about using m&ms to graph, multiply, and divide. Students can actually use hands on material and food to do the activity. They will be able to physically see the problem and understand this conceptually.