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How Big Is a Foot? (Paperback) (Paperback)
by Rolf Myller
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Maths, Learning, Education, Ages 4-8, Children's book |
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Helped introduce measurement concepts in an easy way. |
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Author: Rolf Myller
Publisher: Yearling
Pub. in: July, 1991
ISBN: 0440404959
Pages: 48
Measurements: 7.5 x 5.2 x 0.1 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BC00109
Other information: Reprint edition
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This story is an excellent source to use with children who are beginning to learn about measurement. It enables them to see that there is a need for a standard unit of measure in the world. It is an amusing tale that will start children thinking without them knowing it! The book helped the children to understand what a foot was and after reading a book, you could see all the children measuring things with their feet as they were walking.
Target readers:
Kids aged 4-8
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Rolf Myller, an architect whose eclectic pursuits included writing children's books, puzzle books and guides to erotic games and Chinese food, died on Thursday [March 23, 2006] at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan. He was 79 and lived on the Upper East Side.
The cause was Parkinson's disease, his family said.
A native of Nuremberg, Germany, Mr. Myller was educated in Athens and, after coming to the United States and serving with combat engineers in the Pacific, graduated in 1951 from Cornell with a major in architecture. His professional work took him to Africa to Greece to Israel, and back to New York, where he worked at the Department of General Services from 1989 to 1994. Until 1998 he was a docent at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
His most popular book was "How Big Is a Foot?" (1962), explaining relative sizes to children. Others included "The Bible Puzzle Book" (1977), based on biblical sayings, people and places; "Mazes" (1978), a collection of original labyrinths; and "Symbols and Their Meaning" (1978), a graphic overview of children's nonverbal communication.
He also wrote "Sweet & Sour: Uncle Rolf's Guide to Eating in New York's Chinatown" (1991); "Fantasex: A Book of Erotic Games For the Adult Couple" (1975), for which he used a pen name, Rolf Milonas; and several architectural manuals.
Mr. Myller is survived by his wife of 49 years, Lois Westerdahl Myller; his mother, Liselotte Hirschmann Myller Kahn; two daughters, Elyse Myller and Corinne Myller Caramanico, an art director at The New York Times; a stepsister, Olivia Kahn, all of Manhattan; and two grandsons.
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The King wants to give the Queen something special for her birthday. The Queen has everything, everything except a bed. The trouble is that no one in the Kingdom knows the answer to a very important question: How Big is a Bed? because beds at the time had not yet been invented. The Queen's birthday is only a few days away. How can they figure out what size the bed should be?
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SandiLee (MSL quote), USA
<2006-12-31 00:00>
I am a kindergarten teacher. I read this book to my students to introduce to them how to compare standard and nonstandard units of measurement as well as to highlight the need for uniform measuring tools. How Big is a Foot? Clearly illustrates the difference between the length of a person's foot and a foot long ruler. After reading this book we made tracings of our own feet and cut out foot long foot shapes to make an outline of our own beds that were 4 ft x 6 ft. That was a graphic illustration of the concepts covered in this book - the children loved it! I highly recommend How Big is a Foot? to primary teachers! |
Carolyn (MSL quote), Florida, USA
<2006-12-31 00:00>
This is a cute little story about a king commissioning a bed to be made for the queen. The measurements given a 3ft by 6 ft. That is...3 KINGS ft by 6 KINGS ft. Too bad the carpenter is as small as a Kindergartener! Well, nearly.
My daughter (5) and I read this story and then compared each other's feet. We used outlines of our feet to measure items around the room and discussed why the measurements were different. We got out the measuring tape and discussed why we need a standard of measurement. Helped introduce measurement concepts in an easy way.
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Sara (MSL quote), Tucson, Az
<2006-12-31 00:00>
I recently read this book to a second grade class. The children loved the book; the only problem that I found was that the book is not that big, so reading it to 25 children was very difficult because they all wanted to see the pictures. The children thought that the book was funny, they laughed at the picture of the queen laying in the bed that was WAY too small for her. The book helped the children to understand what a foot was and after reading a book, you could see all the children measuring things with their feet as they were walking. The only negative thing that I will say about this book is that it is too small to read in front of a large group, this book would be so much better in reading groups or if they had a tape that went along with it so that the children could sit and listen to the tape and follow along with it. |
Marian D Redd (MSL quote), Middlebury, VT United States
<2006-12-31 00:00>
I read this book to first graders in math class. It helped solidify the concept of why standard measurement is necessary. They loved it and wanted to read it again the next day because we acted it out and actually measured and cut yarn to make the beds using my foot size and the smallest child's foot size. They want to perform it for the whole school. Of course I have only 2 kids in my class so it's easy to do things like this. |
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