Author: Cindy Neuschwandar
Illustrator: Liza Woodruff
Genre: Fiction
Sub genre: Picture Book
Theme: math, multiplication
Primary and secondary characters: Amanda Bean aka Bean Counter
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Publication Date: 1998
Publishing Company: Scholastic
Amanda Bean is really good at math and she loves to count, her friends even nicknamed her Bean Counter. However, she gets completely confused over a new concept she learns at school one day, multiplication. Amanda does not understand so she continues to count things one by one like she always had done. One night she has a terrible dream that there are too many things for her to count! She realizes she must learn to multiply. The colorful illustrations and creative story will be sure to keep students attention.
I actually found this book while I was working on my unit plan for one of my education classes. This book would be perfect in an interdiction lesson to multiplication. The back of the book has a lot of good activities and resources for teachers to use to teach students multiplication. The teacher could use a think-pair-share method when students are figuring out the multiplication problems.
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