"How Much is a Million?" -David M. Schwartz

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Book Title:

How Much is a Million?

Author:

David M. Schwartz

Illustrator:

Steven Kellogg

Type of Book:

Picture Book

Age Level:

6-9

My Star Rating:

****

Summary

• This book makes the connections of everyday things such as, people, goldfish and stars into millions, billions and trillions to show size in relation.

 

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 My Thoughts

• Although this book is short in text, the illustrations could be worth millions, and trillions of words. This book is awesome. It puts into perspective how big a million is, a billion is, and a trillion is. It is such a great book to get you thinking. This book will help make math more interesting to ponder. Also, something really neat about this book is that, at the end of the book, the author shows his calculations, and the steps he took to get his results. I love this book, and I am so glad it exists.

How to Use in the Classroom

• This book would be perfect for a math opening. There are not many books I have come across that I would use in math, but this book would be great, especially in a unit of learning about higher numbers. This book could even be used in high schools to challenge the students to see if they could come up with his calculations, or if they could make some of their very own.  What a great math-based picture book!

Resources

1. To learn more about David M. Schwartz click here.