Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger Book

This innovative book uses graphs to tell the story of T.J., a Siberian tiger cub born at the Denver Zoo. T.J. is orphaned when he is just a few weeks old. At first he refuses to eat his new food, and the zoo staff worries. If the baby tiger doesn't start to eat soon, he will starve. But the staff refuses to give up, and finally their love and persistence pay off: T.J. grows into a huge, beautiful, and very healthy tiger.

T.J.'s fight for survival is both a heartwarming story and an effective educational tool. Children who like traditional narratives can read the right-hand pages to follow T.J. as he grows from a tiny newborn into a five-hundred-pound adult. Those who want to know even more can use the different types of graphs on the left-hand pages to see exactly how T.J. grew. Tiger Math will charm young readers as it teaches them the basics of graphing.

Ann Whitehead Nagda has a degree in mathematics. Her visits to national parks and reserves in Asia and Africa have inspired her to write several books about wild animals, including Bamboo Valley: A Story of a Chinese Bamboo Forest. Ms. Nagda lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Cindy Bickel has worked at the Denver Zoo for twenty-nine years. During her career, she has hand-raised hundreds of babies for the zoo, using math every day in her job as a veterinary assistant. Ms. Bickel helped write Klondike and Snow: The Denver Zoo's Remarkable Story of raising Two Polar Bear Cubs.

Describes the growth of an orphan Siberian tiger cub, by means of words and graphs.