The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar Fractions Book

It was done in an enjoyable way to introduce fractions and go deeper in understanding it. I found it a little extra for one sitting with a 6 and 8 yr old, so I think breaking it up into two readings would be easiest for my busy boys.

This book arrived in very good shape. Fractions are sometimes hard for some children to understand. This book allows for the study of fractions in a fun way. The use of equal fractions is also discussed and shown. GREAT teaching tool.

I have gone into the classrooms of 4 of my children when they were in 3rd grade and learning fractions armed with this book and a Hershey's bar for each child. I use cardboard cutouts in the shape of the Hershey's bar and use the overhead projector. It's a fun project and a great book that makes the kids excited about fractions, and gives the teacher a little, much-deserved, break. [..]

The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Fractions Book will help teach children the concept of dividing a whole into fractions in a fun and wonderful way. It begins with a huge Hershey bar being unwrapped to show it's 12 blocks. Each page takes away a fraction of the bar. The remaining fraction is colorfully illustrated by a crew of little people who cart their painting tools from page to page, leaving paint spills and footprints. I read this book to a class of 3rd graders just getting into fractions and they loved it. We used our math manipulatives to see the fractions as they were broken down. It was a wonderful way to begin a lesson!

I am doing a lesson plan involving fractions for a graduate school class and this book really inspired me. With this book, you can not only introduce fractions, but can have the children adding and subtracting along with the book. The chocolate bar also gets the children more interested in learning about fractions...it is fun for all!!!

An excellent book to help parents or teachers teach fractions. The candy bar is a great manipulative. You can always make a copy of the candy bar that is provided in the book for your child to work with if you do not have or want to buy a Hershey bar. A must have.