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Math Fun
If You Were an Even Number
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24 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2008
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Marcie Aboff
89 books6 followers“I’ve always loved a good story. There’s something magical that happens when you open a book and are suddenly whisked off to a different place or another time where just about anything can happen … Stories make imagination real”
I was born and raised in a small suburban town in New Jersey, the youngest of three children. It was always a thrill when we had “library day” in elementary school and I got to pick out another new book. Some of my favorite authors growing up were Judy Blume and O. Henry. I love the surprise, twist ending of O. Henry’s stories.
In high school, I was editor of the school newspaper, but my favorite class was creative writing. I loved making up characters and plots and writing them down into a story. One of my fondest memories was when my creative writing teacher, Ms. Earl, read one of my short stories aloud for the class and when she finished she told the class, “this is how a short story should be written.” Wow - I felt on top of the world! Ms. Earl was one of those very special teachers that fueled my love of writing.
At Arizona State University, I broadened my writing interests with classes in broadcasting and I interned at the local PBS station on campus. My first “real” job was an editorial assistant for a daily newspaper in Escondido, California. Part of my job was writing the obituaries (not much room for creativity there!) I eventually became a feature writer/reporter. After a few years, I moved back to the east coast and worked in New York as a copywriter for an advertising specialty firm.
After I had my first child, I took time off from work and concentrated on what I really wanted to write – children’s stories. But I was certainly not an overnight success – I wrote for several years before I got published. I look back at some of my stories I wrote when I first started out and I have to laugh – like the story about the “talking vegetables who sang in the supermarket.” But I kept writing and learning my craft.
My first published story was sold to a children’s pre-teen magazine and I was thrilled. I got a small (very small!) check in the mail and I ran around the house feeling like I finally made it! Then I sold more stories to other children’s magazines like Highlights For Children and Spider. My first picture book, Uncle Willy’s Tickles, came shortly afterward.
I now have several published picture books, beginning readers and chapter books for both the trade and educational market. My latest beginning reader, The Giant Jelly Bean Jar, is a fun story about a jelly bean riddle contest.
I love visiting schools and libraries and talking to the kids about writing. Their creativity knows no bounds. I’ll never forget the time I was talking to a particular class of 4th graders. There were three rough-and-tough boys sitting in the back of the classroom who were clearly not interested in hearing an author speak, but at the end of my presentation, they were excited and smiling and talking about all the stories they wanted to write. What a great feeling!
I live in New Jersey with my three children and am part of a “blended” family – my fiancé has two children. With our five active kids, there is no shortage of story material from which to draw upon.
I was born and raised in a small suburban town in New Jersey, the youngest of three children. It was always a thrill when we had “library day” in elementary school and I got to pick out another new book. Some of my favorite authors growing up were Judy Blume and O. Henry. I love the surprise, twist ending of O. Henry’s stories.
In high school, I was editor of the school newspaper, but my favorite class was creative writing. I loved making up characters and plots and writing them down into a story. One of my fondest memories was when my creative writing teacher, Ms. Earl, read one of my short stories aloud for the class and when she finished she told the class, “this is how a short story should be written.” Wow - I felt on top of the world! Ms. Earl was one of those very special teachers that fueled my love of writing.
At Arizona State University, I broadened my writing interests with classes in broadcasting and I interned at the local PBS station on campus. My first “real” job was an editorial assistant for a daily newspaper in Escondido, California. Part of my job was writing the obituaries (not much room for creativity there!) I eventually became a feature writer/reporter. After a few years, I moved back to the east coast and worked in New York as a copywriter for an advertising specialty firm.
After I had my first child, I took time off from work and concentrated on what I really wanted to write – children’s stories. But I was certainly not an overnight success – I wrote for several years before I got published. I look back at some of my stories I wrote when I first started out and I have to laugh – like the story about the “talking vegetables who sang in the supermarket.” But I kept writing and learning my craft.
My first published story was sold to a children’s pre-teen magazine and I was thrilled. I got a small (very small!) check in the mail and I ran around the house feeling like I finally made it! Then I sold more stories to other children’s magazines like Highlights For Children and Spider. My first picture book, Uncle Willy’s Tickles, came shortly afterward.
I now have several published picture books, beginning readers and chapter books for both the trade and educational market. My latest beginning reader, The Giant Jelly Bean Jar, is a fun story about a jelly bean riddle contest.
I love visiting schools and libraries and talking to the kids about writing. Their creativity knows no bounds. I’ll never forget the time I was talking to a particular class of 4th graders. There were three rough-and-tough boys sitting in the back of the classroom who were clearly not interested in hearing an author speak, but at the end of my presentation, they were excited and smiling and talking about all the stories they wanted to write. What a great feeling!
I live in New Jersey with my three children and am part of a “blended” family – my fiancé has two children. With our five active kids, there is no shortage of story material from which to draw upon.
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May 13, 2017
a cute idea with fun pictures, but I think a lot of the ideas are just a bit too complex for the target audience.
April 9, 2013
I would use this book in a 1st grade class or for advanced Kindergarten placement. This is a great way for students to learn about even numbers!! I really liked the range of even numbers the book introduced! I would use this book as an introduction for math workstations that could exercise even numbers in various ways. I believe this would be a great way for students to create their own story to use their own set of even numbers as well! At the end of the book it actually provides other mini lessons you could use also!
April 22, 2012
This is an amazing book for first graders to learn about even numbers. In fact, it provides lot of even numbers such as, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 26, etc. This book makes the point that even numbers can be split or shared evenly. I can use this book to do a mini lesson on even numbers and allow the students to create their own math stories with even numbers. At the end of this book is activities that can be done even numbers and it have a glossary for mathematical terms.
December 3, 2012
This book is good for a math lesson on even numbers. It has examples of multiple types of even numbers, tricks to determine if a number is even like being divisible by to and between two odd numbers on a number line. This book asks the readers’ questions about even numbers. It has a glossary of terms in the back and also has helpful web sites to future explore. Can be used as a workstation or as an introduction to even numbers.
April 15, 2013
This book is a great way to incorporate literature and even numbers. The book has several fun illustrations that describe different rules and applications for even numbers. In my second grade class, we read the story and then used number from our lives and determined if they are odd or even. The students got to experiment with even numbers that are important to them, such as their phone numbers or birthdays.
February 4, 2011
This book is all about even numbers. It talks about the even numbers that are represented in the illustrations. This would be good for Kindergarten and first grade. I like how most of the pages talk about even number out of order. It really gets students out of skip counting and the begin to really understand which numbers are even.
December 3, 2013
Even numbers are a lot harder to understand when you're in first grade. This book helps guide students to help them understand what even numbers are. The book also provides numerous different and helpful examples of even numbers.
October 6, 2011
A great book for teaching even numbers. Teaches them how to distinguish them from odd numbers. tells it in a funny, interesting way that grab their attention. It even has addition problems in there!
June 7, 2013
This book is adorable! I will definitely read this book to my future child/ren or my friends' kids.
September 7, 2013
Menyenangkan sekali menemukan buku ini saat sudah diobral :p
May 11, 2013
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