Counting Book - Hardcover

Anno, Mitsumasa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 069001287X ISBN 13: 9780690012873

Verlag: Crowell International, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

Book by Anno Mitsumasa

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Críticas

"The best alphabet book of the year."--"Time Magazine"A clean, subtle ABC worth the long look that will idelibly imprint each letter."--"American Library Association Booklist"Handsomely designed and produced, with graceful, leafy borders, carefully rendered pictures, and, facing them, woodgrain upper-case letters that seem to have been lovingly hand-carved, this looks like the beautiful sort of book that wins prizes for graphic excellence. And so it is." --"Kirkus Review Service

Reseña del editor

Every child is a natural mathematician, according to Mitsumasa Anno. Children start to count long before they learn their ABC's, for they are constantly comparing and classifying things and events they observe around them. As they try to bring sense and order into what they observe, they are actually performing basic mathematical feats.

In this book, Mitsumasa Anno, the creator of the brilliantly inventive Anno's Alphabet, invites young readers on another stimulating adventure of the imagination-this time into the world of numbers and counting. Gentle watercolor pictures show a landscape changing through the various times of day and the turning seasons, months and years, and the activities of the people and animals who come to live there. But the seemingly simple plan of the book is deceptive: look more carefully and you will see one-to-one correspondences; groups and sets; scales and tabulations; changes over time periods; and many other mathematical relationships as they occur in natural, everyday living. Just as our forebears developed our number system from observing the order of nature, the reader is subtly led to see and understand the real meaning of numbers.

Look at this book and look again. Each time you do so, you will find another application of a natural mathematical concept that you had not noticed before.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Crowell International
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 069001287X
• ISBN 13: 9780690012873
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 32
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar