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This is a great book for teaching division considering how the ants divide up into groups in order to get to the picnic faster.The book can also be used to teach multiples and different ways of representing 100s.The book can also be used to integrate Math and Science and discuss with students about insects. The book can also be used for Literacy to teach rhyming words and identify the repetitive style the writer uses. Its also a great book to teach multiplication array. A good book to read for the 100 days of school.

Hungry ants start marching to a picnic (100 of them in total).
The ants begin to break off into different rows to make travel easier:
2 rows of 50, 4 rows of 25.

Division is used throughout the book with great examples of showing students different types of arrays and ways of modeling to solve division problems with interactive pictures/models/arrays.

DIVISION, ARRAY

Teacher could have students create arrays following along with the book to teach division and allowing them to have a hands on experience.

This book uses quirky language and students could use this book to help them combine both language arts and mathematics. Students could create a story as a group, using mathematical concepts of division and arrays and then make a skit using themselves to move around and create an array.

As we adopt the core standards i want my kindergarten students to focus on more numbers that 0-30. This book does a phenomenal job in explaining how to represent 100 in different ways. What i liked the best about this book is that i can use unifix cubes to represent the ants, and allow my kinestethic learners to participate in the process of physically making 100. I can think of three or four different activities that we can do in small groups inspired by this book.

A cute story that makes dividing up 100 understandable for children. I like that it includes the idea of arrays. Hannah enjoyed the rhyming text. The ending was a bit sad, as the ants did not get any food.

Great picture book for introductory math concepts.

I found this book listed on a website for living math and it is great for that purpose. It teachers about different ways to make 100. When we first read it we used seeds to act out the rows of ants on the kitchen table. Then we made long strip of paper with 100 smiley face stamps on it (I didn't have an ant stamp) and we used scissors and tape to make the different ant rows, my daughter had a great time acting it out running around with the rows of ants and it says in the books and yelling "Stop!" "We're moving way too slow!" for the little ant.

One Hundred Hungry Ants tells the story about ants that wants to sample food at the picnic, but is having a bit of trouble getting their quickly in a single line of 100 ants. In order to get there faster, the smallest ant comes up with a simplistic idea saying that they need to divide into groups. For a math lesson, specifically division. I could read the book to the class and then ask students which way they feel the ants would be able to get to the picnic fastest (100 by 1, 50 by 2, 25 by 4, etc.). Students could then draw a picture of their ants marching to the picnic in the formation they made on a sheet of paper or dry erase board. For a literacy lesson, I would have students to make predictions throughout the book. Will the ants ever eat the food at the picnic table? How many tries will it take for all of the ants to be even?

3. One Hundred Hungry Ants
i)tOne Hundred Hungry Ants tells the story about a group of one hundred ants trying to make their way to a picnic before all of the food is gone. Along the way, the smallest ant stops the group and devises a way to get to the picnic faster. The smallest ant figures that shorter rows of ants will get to the picnic faster than one long row will. For this reason, the ant first divides them into two rows of fifty, then four rows of twenty-five, next five rows of twenty, and finally ten rows of ten. Because they kept stopping to make adjustments to the rows, the ants took up a lot of time. When they go to the picnic, all of the food was gone, and the ninety-nine ants got mad at the one smallest ant.
ii)tThe major theme of the story is about simplicity and how sometimes it is better to leave things how they are instead of changing them.
iii)tStar Rating: 4
iv)tMath was always my favorite subject, but I struggled when it came to multiplying and dividing. This book reminded me of how I needed to be taught this concept in a different way in order for me to understand it.
v)tI recommend this book for children who are beginning to do math. This book provides examples of how you can divide things differently in multiple ways and still get the same outcome. Teachers could use this book as an introduction to this math concept. Plus, it is a fun and entertaining story for kids.

This is a great book for children to start off learning how you can divide a number in different ways. It shows the different groups for the amount of ants that are heading to the picnic. The ants are trying to get to a picnic as fast as they can and one ant keeps suggesting that if they get in different groupings that they will get there faster. In the end they are too late and do not end up getting anything from the picnic. It is a cute story and it is great how the author cleverly incorporates math in the story. The illustrations are colorful and pop out. One thing that makes me chuckle while reading is as you see the ants changing formations you can see all the other animals in the background taking all the food from the picnic.

This book is perfect for students who are starting to learn about division in terms of equal groups! This story provides a visual of how to divide 100 into 2 groups of 50, 4 groups of 25, 5 groups of 20, etc. if I were to read this book out loud to the class, I would have the students sit at their tales and work together with counters to make the groups as i was reading. I would stop after each new division and allow students to divide their counters and record the problem they just did.

This is a fun tale that incorporates math without being too heavy-handed with formulas or too boring. The rhyming, lyrical narrative and the beautiful woodcut illustrations complement each other nicely and I love that children will learn a little about multiplication and division by listening to or reading this story.

June 2012 update: we have been reading a lot of books by Elinor J. Pinczes recently and I realized that I had read this on my own. So we borrowed it from the library and I read it with our girls. It must be a popular book, because our first-grader knew the whole story and said that a teacher had read this one to her recently.