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Cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres. Sounds sophisticated? Only until you look at Tana Hoban's incomparable photographs and realize that those shapes are the stuff of everyday life. They are all around us all the time. In our houses, on our streets, in our hands. In yet another breathtaking book, Tana Hoban wakes us up to our world and makes us see it.
K-Gr 5-The photos stand alone in this textless mathematics book. Four small, labeled diagrams on the back of the title page define the shapes. After that, readers are led on a treasure hunt for those shapes through 21 crisp, colorful pictures. A display of teddy bears in clown hats, a basket of baseballs, a breathtaking castle, and sculptured hedges typify the broad-ranging subject matter. Math teachers approaching solid geometry will find this to be a useful resource. Children will simply enjoy identifying the plethora of shapes to be found out in the world if one only takes the time to look.-Ellen Heath, Orchard School, Ridgewood, NJ Copyright 2000 Cahners Business Information.
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Aimee Luther
reviewed Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres on December 06, 2011
Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, & Spheres
1. Wordless/ Concept Picture Book'Shapes
2. This book shows photos of objects in the shapes of cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres.
3. A. Photography/ wordless
B. The back flap of the book states, "Tana Hoban's photographs have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York City and in galleries around the world." The strengths of this book are definitely found in the photography. Hoban takes a close look at the world of shapes that tantalize the reader's senses. The weakness of this book is the lack of words. Cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres are concepts that may be a bit difficult to understand for a young reader.
C. The photography is very "crisp." For example, in the picture of the boy with the spherical bubble, one can see the sunlight reflect on it causing a rainbow of colors within the bubble. The photos also pay respects to the reader's senses: the reader can "taste" the melting ice cream cones and feel the cool air in the picture of the barn.
Unfortunately, words would be useful in the pictures. How is a beginning reader going to know what is a cube from a cone from a cylinder from a sphere? Words to accompany which photos showed this shape would have been helpful, especially in the photos with more than one shape. For example, the picture of the castle has cones and cylinders.
4. I would recommend showing this book to students AFTER teaching students about cubes, cones, cylinders, and spheres. I would also consider bringing this into a geometry classroom to show real life examples of what is being taught.
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