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Shapes at Home

by Victoria Braidich

Book Details

Publisher:The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Published:2010-01-01
Pages:18
Format:BOOK
Language:en

Reading Info

Age Range:6-10

About This Book

BookMath that students can relate to!This full-color, photo-illustrated math reader seamlessly integrates Math with the curriculum areas of Science and Social Studies. Grab your students' attention and inspire a love of Math and of learning.

Our Review

This engaging early math concept book transforms everyday household items into opportunities for shape recognition and geometry exploration. Through vibrant, full-color photographs of familiar home environments, young readers discover circles, squares, triangles, and rectangles in their own living spaces. The approachable format makes abstract mathematical ideas concrete and accessible, showing children that learning happens everywhere. This visual mathematics resource effectively bridges the gap between academic concepts and real-world application.

What sets this educational book apart is its seamless integration of math with social studies and science perspectives, helping children understand how shapes function in their daily lives. The photographic illustrations provide immediate context that helps solidify geometric understanding beyond simple memorization. Parents seeking to build foundational spatial reasoning skills will find this particularly valuable for children beginning to notice patterns in their environment. The connection between mathematical thinking and everyday observation makes shape identification feel like discovery rather than instruction.

Themes

Juvenile Nonfiction

Subjects

Juvenile Nonfiction