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Title: Monster Birthday Surprise
Author : Professor Ginsboo
Release Date : January 08, 2020
Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 250552 KB

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Monster Birthday Surprise is a playful approach to early math learning. Cute monsters help young children, roughly ages 4 to 6 years, learn about number as they select presents for a birthday party. Based on a decade of research at Columbia University, MBS is one of three Professor Ginsboo iBooks.

Monster Birthday Surprise is the story of how three charming monsters-Oona, Tigga, and Marluk-decide to get Oona's sister a present for her ninth birthday. Marluk goes to the balloon store. To make sure that he gets the right number of balloons, Marluk carries pictures—one of 6 red balloons and one of 4 purple ones. His job—and the job of the child interacting with the book—is to get the right numbers of red and purple balloons and then check to make sure that the number of balloons matches the number of balloons in the pictures, proving that the result is accurate.

Oona goes to the supermarket to get the right number of Monster Mix Cartons, each of which contains worms, snozzleberries, slimeballs, and tentacles. She—and the child—can determine how many to get by consulting a picture showing 4 green dots in a row. Again, the child learns that checking the answer, by matching each carton with each dot, is essential. Oona next has to get the right number of cucamelon boxes, and is again helped by a picture of dots, this time showing 5 in a row. Each dot matches one cucamelon box in the cart.

Tigga goes to the bakery to get cupcakes for the party. He knows the number to get from consulting a picture of a numeral-that is, a written number. The child learns that 8 refers to eight cupcakes and helps Tigga get the right number. As the cupcakes fly in the box, they arrange themselves in a line of 5 and a line of 3 immediately below. This careful arrangement makes it easier for the monster, and the child, to check the result by counting the cupcakes. Next, the numeral 7 tells Tigga how many to get next and again the child helps to get the right amount.

After the monsters get their presents, they gather in the store to pick out a card for Neenee's ninth birthday. When they—with the child's help—eventually find it, they learn that it has the word "nine" in front, and inside is the numeral 9, and also nine stars in a row of 5 and underneath it a row of 4. The card summarizes what we want the child to learn from the story: that a picture of the objects, stars (or dots) standing for the objects, written numbers, and numerals, all can be used to indicate (symbolize) an amount.