Turn the page again and the snow has started to melt-we find two buildings, two trucks, two trees, two children, two dogs, and two adults. But wait, this is zero! On the next page the scene brightens: one tree, one bird, one house.

What kind of a counting book is this? On the first page all we see is a barren winter landscape-a hazy, blue sky above a hazy, white hill. Each time you do so, you will find another application of a natural mathematical concept that you had not noticed before. The reader is subtly led to see and understand the real meaning of numbers.

But the seemingly simple plan of the book is deceptive: look more carefully and you will see one-to-one correspondences groups and sets scales and tabulations changes over time periods and many other mathematical relationships as they occur in natural, everyday living. Gentle watercolor pictures show a landscape changing through the various times of day and the turning seasons, months and years, and the activities of the people and animals who come to live there. With Anno's Counting Book, the creator of the brilliantly inventive Anno's Alphabet invites young readers on another stimulating adventure of the imagination-this time into the world of numbers and counting. As they try to bring sense and order into what they observe, they are actually performing basic mathematical feats. Children are constantly comparing and classifying things and events they observe around them. Urn:oclc:519830205 Republisher_date 20120401055132 Republisher_operator Scandate 20120331103345 Scanner simple, beautiful introduction to math for the youngest readersĮvery child is a natural mathematician, according to Mitsumasa Anno.

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Anno's Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno