I think this book would be great for helping students learn to count by different groups of numbers like counting by ten. I think this book would probably work best at later kindergarten or early first grade level since it involves working with numbers up to 100. Another subject area that this book could be incorporated into would be insects, specifically ants, and how they behave. Questions I would ask during this book would be like “If the ants are in two rows now, how many ants are in each of the rows?” and “how did you figure that out?”. These would help students to explain their reasoning behind how they got their answer to the first question. I think this book would work best with a lesson using manipulatives like a chain of blocks to help students get use to breaking apart bigger numbers and counting by larger groups of numbers.

Funny book.

I already have A Remainder of One by the same author and I love it for teaching remainders hen doing division. This is a fun introduction to dividing and I am always trying to add new books to my collection of storybooks for teaching Maths.

Fun math story.

This book is a fantastically cute way to slip math into your child’s reading time. The story follows 100 hungry ants, as the title implies, as they rush on to seek out the nearby picnic. As the story progresses, the ants continuously change their pattern of movement to try and speed up. At first they start in one straight line of all 100. Then the littlest ant calls out that they need to speed up and they switch to two rows of 50. Then they switch again to four rows of 25, then 5 rows of 20, and finally 10 rows of 10. The entire time this is going on, the illustrations in the background show us all of these other animals like mice, skunks, squirrels, and even snails carrying away all of the picnic foods like donuts and burgers and fruits. By the time the 100 ants find the picnic, there is no more food left and they blame the little ant for rearranging them so many times. The story has a clear rhyme scheme and repetitive language which is great for getting kids involved and making sure they retain the story. It is also a great way to introduce or clarify multiplication. The art covers the book in double page spreads of wonderful images. The style reminds me of linocuts with lots of action lines and hatching to help tie the pictures together. I greatly enjoyed this book and think it would be a worthwhile addition to any classroom.

Great bedtime story

I opine that the humor is more effective than the math, but this is still a cute book. Cover, however, is the best part. 3.5 rounded down because, imo, the community average rating is a bit too high. ;)

One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J. Pinczes is about a colony of 100 ants that are trying to get to a picnic. One little ant keeps stopping the others and putting them in rows that stand in for ways to increase by 100. A great way to combine math into reading or reading into math is with this book. This book is a great resource for those who need help with division or multiplication. Students will be persuaded to pick up this book and read it for themselves by a line that appears frequently in it. This book will be available to me to utilize in my math and reading classes. The illustrations are excellent in enhancing the story and illuminating the multiplication tables.

3.5

100 hungry ants on their way to picnic! Wait yells the littlest ant, let move in 2 lines of 50! This book is all about how to make 100 in different ways. For example? 4 rows of 25 and 10 rows of 10. Although when the ants arrive all the food is gone, this book is a great math tool for students learning to count to or relate 100.

I would use this book in a very literal way in my classroom. I think that showing students that you can make 100 in so Monday different way can help them understand numbers and how they work a little better. Great math book.

A hey and a hi dee ho! "One Hundred Hungry Ants" is a cute book about 100 little ants on their way to a picnic! One little ants tells the others that if they do not get in rows then they will not make it in time to the picnic to have any food. They get into rows of 2 with 50 ants in each row. Then, the little ant says that they need to get in rows again because they will not make it in time for food so they get into 4 rows of 25. The ants continue to get into more rows with less ants in each row. When they finally make it to the picnic, all of the food is gone. They are upset with the tiny ant and start marching towards him. This book is target for mostly 1st graders. This book teaches the concept of 100 and how there can be many ways to create the number 100. In my class, I would read this book and do an extension activity by giving groups of students a set of 100 beans and they would have to create 100 in many different ways using those beans.

This book is great for older preschool and kindergarten who are learning to count to larger numbers. My two year old class was interested in the ants and the rhymes, but the counting went over their heads.