Title: More or LEss
Author: Stuart J. Murphy
Illustrator: David T. Wenzel
Recommended Grade Level: K-1
Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed: Prediction, Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Logic, Number and Operations in Base Ten, Comparing
Summary: This story is about a boy named Eddie who is working the dunk tank at his school fair for the principal's retirement celebration. Eddie has a booth, guessing people's ages. If Eddie guesses the persons age in 3 questions or less, Eddie wins, four questions or more, you get a prize, and if it takes Eddie more than six questions, Eddie get's dunked! By using clues, such as the sound of the players voice, he then assumes the general age (child, adult, senior citizen) and from there begins asking the player various questions to guess their age.
Rating: **** I highly recommend this book and think students will enjoy it as well. I think it teaches useful concepts while incorporating them into a fun and relatable story.
Classroom Ideas: These concepts could be used in the classroom by having the students predict the next question Eddie will ask before reading on, or reading the story a second time and have the students come up with different questions that Eddie could ask in the story. This will help demonstrate the relationship between the question and answer and how important it is to ask the right questions.
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