| Cheese! Yummy Cheese! (English) Contributor(s): Hepker, Sue (Author), Pulles, Elizabeth (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0521578558 ISBN-13: 9780521578554 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $6.64 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 1996 Annotation: This book is available separately or as part of the Little Library Maths Kit. The colourfully illustrated, indigenous story teaches mathematical logic and literacy to children aged 5 to 9. As one of the ten award-winning South African stories in the Little Library Maths Kit, Cheese! Yummy Cheese! explores maths concepts such as ratio, proportion and perspective through the medium of a story. The full-colour illustrations and exciting, original narrative make each reading entertaining as well as educational. The Little Library is the winner of the 1996 international Ibby-Asahi Promotion of Reading Award. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading & Phonics |
| Dewey: 513 |
| Series: Little Library Maths Kit |
| Physical Information: 16 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This title forms part of the Little Library programme, which consists of a Literacy Kit, Numeracy Kit and Life Skills Kit. These were developed to respond to a need for high-quality, indigenous books for the younger members of our communities, and have been successfully used in schools for the last ten years. This title is found in the updated, OBE version of the Little Library Maths Kit, now called the Little Library Numeracy Kit. The Numeracy Kit keeps seven of the best stories, and introduces five new ones - all of them trialled in classrooms around the country. Cheese Yummy cheese tells the story of mice who have found cheese in a dairy, and fight to see who will eat it. Division, rote counting, number/quantity correspondence and the use of counting to mark the passage of time are the main Mathematics links in this story. |