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Give Me Half!
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Book Overview
Help kids with their math skills plus their reading skills with the engaging and fun MathStart series
Give Me Half is perfect for teaching halves to to first, second, and third graders. When a boy tries to eat a whole pizza without sharing half with his sister, it's not pretty. Of course, she isn't too keen on sharing her juice or cupcakes. With a little adult prodding, however, they soon learn the benefits of sharing and split everything in half, including clean-up chores.
Kids will love the story and the funny illustrations by Brian Karas. Parents and other educators will love how the story and pictures make understanding comparisons a breeze--as well as the concrete examples of how math works The book contains activities for adults to do with kids to extend math into their own lives Math = Fun
MathStart is an award-winning series by Stuart J. Murphy that teaches math through stories and visual models. Young readers find the stories engaging and relatable, because each story revolves around practical applications of the math concept being presented and features lively art from top-notch illustrators.
Charts and other visual representations help children understand how the math works and promote deeper comprehension. This unique combination of stories, Read More chevron_right
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Frequently Asked Questions About Give Me Half!
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What is the reading level for Give Me Half!?
The recommended reading level for Give Me Half! is 1st Grade through 5th Grade .
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What is the Lexile score for Give Me Half!?
The Lexile score for Give Me Half! is 520.
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How long is Give Me Half!?
Give Me Half! is 40 pages long.
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Entertaining book for very basic fraction concepts
Derived From Web , May 26, 2022
I received this book for my daughter, who is in kindergarten. It illustrates very basic fractional concepts in a way that my daughter got very interested. For it's purpose, the book amused my daughter with the talk of sharing with siblings and there is a food fight at the end that she found funny. Afterwards we had a discussion about how she should not really talk like they do in the book and we don 't throw food, but she seemed to have no problem understanding that it was a book and was supposed to be funny and that it wasn 't necessarily real. When we have food that can be easily divided, she has a blast applying fractions to it.
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great idea, bad execution
Derived From Web , May 26, 2022
I'm expecting this to be a fun storybook about fractions. In fact, it is a very boring story about two siblings who don 't want to share. The only fractional figure in the book is half. It is only shown on 2-3 pages. I expected a story where more fractions were introduced to share the inno '' with a larger and larger group.
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Kids fighting then food fight
Derived From Web , May 13, 2020
The siblings fight over food and the mom steps in to make them share half so that each has the same amount. I did not like the book because of how the children were acting... and I don 't want kids to read that kind of example. Kids should not eat meat pizza, juice, cookies and cupcakes at the same time... Yes, it teaches the concept of math very well, but I do not like the book. It is returning it.
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Kids Love It
Derived From Web , Mar 6, 2020
I bought this book because I remembered reading it to my class by the school librarian in the 90s. As a first teacher, I read it and bring it up when we start understanding 12 and 14 in the spring. Kids love it and want to read it constantly. Struggling readers can often read it also because of the rhyming. I see there are a lot of negative reviews, but characters in books are often not role models and it is a good chance to have a conversation.
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Great book!
Derived From Web , Jul 10, 2019
Great book by Aloud to teach half fractions. It was still a great read.
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I don't think it's a very nice book. There's a lot of jealousy and arguing ...
Derived From Web , May 30, 2018
My 6 year old loves reading this book and while it ends up okay, I don 't think it is a very nice book. There is a lot of jealousy and arguing and fighting between the children in the book and overall not a great story.
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Fun Living Book for Math!
Derived From Web , Oct 24, 2017
The physical application of concepts in the story helps me as an educator to come up with new activities to apply physical concepts! The illustrations are beautiful and the books are uncomplicated to the point and beautiful. These are used as a resource to introduce new units!
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