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One Hundred Hungry Ants
One Hundred Hungry Ants
Author: Elinor J Pinczes, Bonnie MacKain (Illustrator)
Hi dee ho! It's off to a picnic we go! One hundred very hungry ants hurry to sample the delights of a picnic, but marching in single file seems too slow for 100 empty tummies. The smallest ant of all suggests they travel in 2 rows of 50, four rows of 25 . . . and the division begins. — One Hundred Hungry Ants is not only a spirited a...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780395971239
ISBN-10: 0395971233
Publication Date: 9/1999
Pages: 32
Reading Level: Ages 4-8
Rating:
  • Currently 4.1/5 Stars.
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4.1 stars, based on 6 ratings
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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Helpful Score: 3
great book to introduce muliplication and playing with numbers to younger kids. great for homeschooling.
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Helpful Score: 3
BOOKADVENTURE.COM test available -- level 4.5

Accelerated Reader level 2.6

From the back: "One hundred hungry ants marched in a row, going to a picnic -- but were they too slow?" Great book for beginning multiplication. It is a reading level 1 for ages 4-7. Whether the ants go single file (1 wide x 100 long), 2 to a row (2 x 50), 4 to a row (4 x 25), etc., your little one will recognize there are lots of ways to "see" 100.

One hundred ants are marching, single file, towards a picnic where they hope to enjoy a number of tasty treats. When the smallest ant uses math to deduce that they will reach the picnic quicker if they march in two lines he reorganizes the group. He reorganizes again when he rethinks he strategy and decides they will get there quicker if they march in rows of three, and so on. While the ant's math logic is correct, his constant stopping to reorganize the group slows things down so much that they miss the picnic altogether. Color illustrations accompany the rhyming text.
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reviewed One Hundred Hungry Ants on + 219 more book reviews
Wonderful to use when introducing division! I love those little ants!!!

A rhyming text describes the progress of one hundred ants marching toward a picnic. To travel faster, one ant suggests dividing into two lines of fifty, then four lines of twenty-five, and finally ten lines of ten. Their frantic reorganization takes so long that the picnic is gone by the time they arrive. The illustrations, which look like linoleum cuts, use a pleasing palette and energetic lines to depict ants with highly individual characters.
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LOVE IT! We will read it to my daughters class on the 100th Day of school this year!


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