Absorbing a pattern and predicting the next in a sequence is done playfully and very well in this picture book. 5. We know from the title that there are going to be 500 hats. Neither Bartholomew nor the King are aware of that. Because not every hat from 1 to 500 is visible to us, we are forced to count around the gaps to make the book make sense. Filling in missing information seems like math to me.
Short chapters detail the events in the animals' Olympics.
The animals have no compunction about stretching the truth and the reader needs to exercise logic in order to see what's going on. An added mathematical dividend is the various measurement called for in the stories. More Information and Activities . When a pumpkin rolls into the yard of a pumpkin-hating woman, she buries it. The villagers must use both those skills to accomplish the seemingly impossible task of figuring out an elephant's exact weight without access to a large scale.