How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? (Mr. Tiffin's Classroom Series)

by Margaret McNamara

Book Overview

Mr. Tiffin and his students explore skip counting and estimation in a fun pumpkin-themed classroom experiment This book makes a wonderful read-aloud companion to any math or science curriculum, and it's a fun way to reinforce counting skills at home.

"How many seeds are in a pumpkin?" Mr. Tiffin asks his class as they gather around the big, medium, and small pumpkins on his desk. Robert, the biggest kid, guesses that the largest...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0375840141
• ISBN13: 9780375840142
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Random House Studio
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 10.9"
• Age Range: 3 to 7 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 2

Customer Reviews

A Class Favorite

My first grade class loved it! I read the book after we estimated how many seeds were in our pumpkin. We estimated how many seed were in our pumpkin. They loved pointing out facts that they learned from the book.

Christopher Award

This is not a review really, and I haven't read the book. However, I wanted to let people know that this book received The Christopher Award for Young People Books, ages 6-8, in 2008. In my opinion, this is a very prestigious award, given to works that exemplify the human spirit.

Nice teaching compliment to counting pumpkin seeds

This book was a wonderful accompaniment to counting pumpkin seeds in our first grade classroom. It would be appropriate for any of the lower grades. I read the first part before the children dug seeds out of pumpkins and counted them and allowed them to come up with their own estimates and strategies for keeping track of the amounts. Then we returned to the book to see how the class in the book counted theirs. It included some interesting facts about pumpkins and ways to predict which have the most seeds. Along with the good mathematical thinking was a nice metaphor for the small boy in the story about the smallest pumpkin having the most seeds. Nice illustrations.

A fun story involves counting and estimating skills

"How many seeds in a pumpkin?" Mr. Tiffin asks his class... and so begins an inquiry involving bets between three kids. A fun story involves counting and estimating skills in Margaret McNamara and G. Brian Karas' HOW MANY SEEDS IN A PUMPKIN?, which involves an entire class in a seed-counting survey.