Tuesday, 19 August 2008

Tally Charts - one of a new maths series.



By Vijaya Khisty Bodach Published by Capstone Press, 2008.

Sam and Kim make tally charts to keep count of their pick up sticks, and tally charts are made for other things too, like favourite ice cream flavours and sports, how many times heads comes up when tossing a coin, and how many times the carousel spins on a carousel ride. There is a Table of Contents, Glossary and Index. This book has lovely, colourful, full page photos, and large examples of the tally charts - ideal for shared reading with very junior primary classes.

There are four books in this Making Graphs maths series - bar graphs, pictographs, pie graphs, and tally charts. They all have very simple text, and large colourful pictures. Great for starting off or finishing a maths lesson.

Reviewed by Heather

1 comments:

Beth said...

Thanks for this Heather. There are so many fantastic maths books and they are underused. I think that it is because people (especially teachers) don't realise they are being produced. Many of the maths books in our collection are gorgeous and we are going to use them in our next display just to let people know they are there.