The Rajah's Rice: A Mathematical Folktale from India

by David Barry

Book Overview

Exotic India is the setting for this cleverly devised, lushly illustrated folktale of compassionate trickery and surprising mathematics. Young Chandra, the Rajah's elephant caretaker, outwits the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716765683
• ISBN13: 9780716765684
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: W.H. Freeman & Company
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 10.4" x 8.4"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

Understanding exponents (squaring) in context

This is a great book I found in a library years ago. Glad to have found a copy available here. Wonderful story for thinking about exponents (squaring).