Tyrannosaurus Math

One morning a little tyrannosaurus burst from his shell on a volcanic plain and immediately began to add up his fingers and toes to make a "number sentence." It didn't take long for his mother to decide upon the name Tyrannosaurus Math. His brothers and sisters began emerging from their shells and he began to add them up. POP! POP! When he grew older, he was able to count the "footprints of the ornithomimus." Two, four, six, eight . . . counting was getting even more fun. He spotted a "herd of triceratops" and counted them by fives, then by tens. He quickly "became a huge show-off around his family" and began to count dragonflies as he competed against his brother. Tyrannosaurus Math's skills blossomed the older he got and his mother said he was a "colossal genius." He was learning addition, subtraction, number sentences, ordering and comparing whole numbers, inverse relationships/operations, symmetry, multiplication, reasoning, organizing data with graphs, arrays, division, fractions, nonstandard measurement and estimation. He tromped and stomped his way across the landscape showing off his math skills and having a great time. His was learning that math could be very useful and even his brother wanted to learn more of his "tricks." How about you? Many youngsters develop a distaste and even a fear of math at a young age, but this book just shouts the word FUN! Most children haven't met a dinosaur they don't like and the combination of them with math concepts makes this book a winner. The concepts are briefly introduced, but are made simple and understandable. Mind you, this is not an in depth look, but rather a brief, but exiting look at math. The artwork is bold, vibrant and meshes well with the text. This book's equation is math - fear = fun!