Title: Just Enough Carrots
Author: Stuart J. Murphy
Illustrator: Frank Remkiewicz
Recommended Grade Level: K-2
Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed: Counting and Cardinality Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Measurement and Data
Summary: This story is about a young rabbit that goes grocery shopping with his mother one day. While in the store, he begins to take notice of what is going into their shopping cart compared to some of the other shopper’s carts. He wants mom to buy more of what he likes, and less of what he doesn’t like. More carrots please! What young rabbit doesn’t know is that mom is shopping for a fun surprise when they get back home!
Rating: ***** I highly recommend this book. It has bright, vivid illustrations that young students find attractive. The pictures are labeled with the words fewer, same and more, giving visual learners something to help connect concepts. I thought this book did a really great job of using a storyline that makes math concepts relatable to everyday life. Plenty of children go shopping with mom and dad, grandma and grandpa or whoever the head of the household is. This was a great way for kids to apply math to their real life activity.
Classroom Ideas: This book could be used in the classroom in a few different ways. Mathematical topics include addition, subtraction, counting, comparing, and sorting depending on which grade level you use the story in. Students could use manipulatives to follow along with the number of grocery items rabbit and his mother buy at the store. Students can also use manipulatives to show their own ways to show more, less, and the same and how we know that it is true that one number can be more than, less than, or the same as another number. Students can use addition/subtraction sentences to show how we make more or less of something and create their own shopping cart with a different number of each item to compare.
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