12 Ways to Get to 11

By Eve Merriam

Book Overview

Twelve witty double spreads take young readers on a counting adventure of adding to eleven.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 __ 12 What happened to 11?

Is it in the magician's hat? Maybe it's in the mailbox or hiding in the jack-o'-lantern? Don't forget to look in the barnyard where the hen awaits the arrival of her new little chicks. Could that be where eleven went?

Eve Merriam and Bernie Karlin take young readers on a counting adventure as they demonstrate twelve witty and imaginative ways to get to eleven.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689808925
• ISBN13: 9780689808920
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Aladdin Paperbacks
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 10.0" x 10.1"
• Age Range: 4 to 8 years
• Grade Range: Preschool to Grade 3

Customer Reviews

A good way to introdue number strings

I find 12 Ways to Get to 11 to be a very useful tool for the classroom. Every two pages focuses on a different way to get to the number eleven. The pictures correspond directly to what is being said. This is a good springboard for more discussion and work for different combinations of numbers. Teachers can take advantage of the format in which each combination is presented and have their students come up with their own "number stories." This book provides a good alternative way of thinking about addition.

Makes Children Think

What a neat way to illustrate the concept of basic addition! Our kindergarten teacher read this book to the class and it provided an example to the children that adding numbers together can be done in a variety of ways: from simple to higher level thinking.