Illustrations- water color/colored pencils

This book is about a girl who loves to count. Amanda counts everything. In school they start learning how to multiply and she wants to continue counting. Throughout the book she realizes how much longer it can take to count stuff and ultimately decides that it would just be better for her learn to multiply and how much fun it can be.

This a book at uses its pictures to teach math. It uses patterns, rows, and columns to show the concepts of counting, adding, and multiplying. I think this would be a good book to tie in math with reading. ( )

This book is about Amanda who loves to count "anything and everything". Her teacher tries to teach her multiplication but Amanda sees no reasoning for it since she could just count and get the same answer. Then one night Amanda has a dream where she has to count a lot of things much faster than she can count. By the end of the dream she comes to a conclusion about counting and multiplication.
This book fits neatly into the fantasy category since many crazy things happen in her dream. Since it is in a dream it is believable.

Amanda Bean is a girl that loves to count everything. Because she loves to count so much, she is trying to find a way that will help her count faster. This book is a great source to have Amanda add or subtract the different objects that she is counting together instead of having to count each one one by one. Review from ladiponi | Dec 10, 2013 |

This is an excellent mentor text to teach children that through repeated addition you can multiply.

This is a wonderful mathematical story. The main message of the story is to teach children that through repeated addition you can multiply. It is a great book for the basis of multiplication. One reason why I liked this book is because of the plot. Amanda is having a silly dream where she has to count tons of sheep riding bikes, grandmas at a yarn party, and sheep juggling yarn. This took multiplication and made it engaging and enjoyable for the children. Children are more likely to read the story and understand multiplication while laughing. I also liked the story because of the concept. Many books are read to children only during Language Arts time but this story can be used during math and they children are still being read to. This could also help the students who are having a difficult time understanding multiplication.I also liked how the author included a chant for the students. At the end of each page the sheep chant, "multiply multiply multiply" This makes it fun and more engaging for the readers as they can participate in the chant. ( )

Amanda Bean is a girl that loves to count everything. Because she loves to count so much, she is trying to find a way that will help her count faster. This book is a great source to have Amanda add or subtract the different objects that she is counting together instead of having to count each one one by one. This can then lead on to multiplication and division for the older grades, or once the student is ready to move on.