Gator Pie

by Louise Mathews

Book Overview

Two alligators consider dividing their pie into halves, thirds, fourths, eighths, and hundredths. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590758128
• ISBN13: 9780590758123
• Release Date: January 1979
• Publisher: Dodd, Mead
• Weight: 0.48 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Cute Little Story w/ Adorable Illustrations

This is a cute story that will help your children learn about fractions and how aligators divide a chocolate marshmallow pie. The illustrations are adorable. Basically, there are two alligators, Alvin and Alice, in a swamp who discover a large pie on a picnic table. They decide to each have some pie and divide it in half, but then, as more and more alligators come right before it's about to be eaten, the pieces get smaller and smaller. Finally, a whole army of aligators show up demanding some pie. These are no ordinary alligators--they have metal helmets on. Then, the pie must be divided into teeny thin slices (100 slices). The pieces are so tiny that the alligators begin fighting over who can get which piece because it might be bigger. While they fight, Alvin and Alice alligator couple take away the pie, divide it in half again, and enjoy their cholcolate marshmallow pie together in the swamp.

Excellent children's book especially for teaching fractions

This children's picture book is about some aligators who want to share a pie. On each page more gators come and they have to figure out how to divide the pie to make it equal until the end when there are 100 gators. Read it to find out what they do. Excellent introduction to fractions for grades K-3.