Great Estimations - by Bruce Goldstone (Paperback)

About the Book

How many jelly beans are on this book's cover? Don't count--estimate! Readers are shown how to train their eyes and their minds to make really great estimations by making estimating into a game. Full color.

Book Synopsis

How many jelly beans are on this book's cover? Don't count--estimate!

If someone handed you a big bowl of jelly beans, how would you figure out how many there are? You could count them, one by one--or you could estimate. Do you see more than five jelly beans? Less than a million?

This unique book will show you how to train your eyes and your mind to make really great estimations--by making estimating into a game. Jelly beans are just the beginning! This title has Common Core connections.

Great Estimations is a 2007 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

Review Quotes

"A model of how to do it right." --New York Times Book Review

"A must-have resource for school libraries." --Kirkus Reviews

"Goldstone adds another winner to the growing canon of titles that make learning math concepts both fun and interesting." --School Library Journal

"With jaw-dropping color photos . . . this book lends itself equally well to skill building and to casual reading." --Booklist

About the Author

Bruce Goldstone is the author of several books, including 100 Ways to Celebrate 100 Days, Greater Estimations and The Beastly Feast. He has worked in educational publishing for nearly twenty years. Growing up in Ohio, Bruce fell in love with reading and the magic of words, and even back then he knew he wanted to be a writer. Books have always been an important part of his life, from buying used paperbacks to his first job, shelving books as a library page. He now lives in New York City with a plethora of pets including one dog, three parakeets, and an aquarium.