Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream

by Marilyn Burns and Cindy Neuschwander

Book Overview

Amanda Bean loves to count everything, from the books in the library to the popcorn in her bowl. If only she could count faster! Her teacher tries to persuade her of the virtues of multiplication, but... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590300121
• ISBN13: 9780590300124
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.93 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 8.9" x 10.7"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Very enjoyable and educational

I try to teach my six year old daugher math through children's literature, and this book rates highly in that area. She loves the story and I love how it introduces multiplication in a fun and easy to understand manner. The explanation of a "fast way to count" really clicked with my daugher. She asks me to read this book over and over again.

Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream: A Mathematical Story

This is one of a genre of books wherein the beauty and elegance of a mathematical concept is revealed to the main character in a dream (others notables inlude MATH CURSE by Jon Scieszka and THE NUMBER DEVIL by Hans Magnus Enzensberger). This book is a marvelous way to integrate literature with mathematics and I have found it useful to aid in the introduction of multiplication to students in my 3rd grade.