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Miura, T. (2004). Ton. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, LLC.
Grades: 1st to 3rd
Awards:
2006 Parent’s Choice Silver Award
Summary: This concept book showed the different ways that things can be carried depending on its weight. It is cumulative in the way that it starts with the smallest measurement and increases to the most. This book starts with one construction worker carrying a 50 pound beam to a tanker hauling 10,000 tons of all of the previous items shown in the book. However, there were some discrepancies to the definition of a ton on the freight train (20,000 = 20 tons). Although, this book does give the reader an idea of what would be needed to carry different amounts.
Credibility of Author: Taro Miura is an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer, which makes him knowledgeable about the amount of workers, equipment, and vehicles to move different amounts.
Descriptions of Illustrations: The images in this book are stenciled in bright colors on white background.
National Standards: Measurement
Access features: There is a page at the end of this book that gives the comparisons of English and metric system.
My response to the book: I did enjoy reading this book. It was very simplistic with only a minimal amount of words, almost a wordless picture book. Other than the mistake that the author made with the ton, it was very interesting.
How I would use this book in my classroom: I would use this book in my classroom to give my students an idea or understanding of how many workers or type of equipment that it would take to move different amounts. I feel that it would be very helpful for students to see the comparisons at the end of this book.
Related text: Great Estimations by Bruce Goldstone, and Weight (Math Counts) by Henry Arthur Pluckrose
Miura, T. (2004). Ton. San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, LLC.
Grades: 1st to 3rd
Awards:
2006 Parent’s Choice Silver Award
Summary: This concept book showed the different ways that things can be carried depending on its weight. It is cumulative in the way that it starts with the smallest measurement and increases to the most. This book starts with one construction worker carrying a 50 pound beam to a tanker hauling 10,000 tons of all of the previous items shown in the book. However, there were some discrepancies to the definition of a ton on the freight train (20,000 = 20 tons). Although, this book does give the reader an idea of what would be needed to carry different amounts.
Credibility of Author: Taro Miura is an award-winning illustrator and graphic designer, which makes him knowledgeable about the amount of workers, equipment, and vehicles to move different amounts.
Descriptions of Illustrations: The images in this book are stenciled in bright colors on white background.
National Standards: Measurement
Access features: There is a page at the end of this book that gives the comparisons of English and metric system.
My response to the book: I did enjoy reading this book. It was very simplistic with only a minimal amount of words, almost a wordless picture book. Other than the mistake that the author made with the ton, it was very interesting.
How I would use this book in my classroom: I would use this book in my classroom to give my students an idea or understanding of how many workers or type of equipment that it would take to move different amounts. I feel that it would be very helpful for students to see the comparisons at the end of this book.
Related text: Great Estimations by Bruce Goldstone, and Weight (Math Counts) by Henry Arthur Pluckrose
1 comment:
It's not clear to me what the error is related to a ton--if this information is incorrect, can you assume other information is correct? It seems to me that an error related to the measurement that is the title of the book is a BIG problem.
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