Piece = Part = Portion

Perhaps the low quality construction of this piece has me giving it a poor review. It has the feel of something printed at OfficeMax, more like a pamphlet than a book. I think the concept could have been done much better, some of the pictures were not well chosen, for example a 2/3rd is an image of two utensils, a fork and knife I think. 1/8 is a slice of pie -couldn't that be 1/9 or 1/7 or 1/6? It could have also taken some challenging concepts to spice the dullness up, but failed to try, say perhaps throwing the golden ratio in there, or pi, the most famous ratio of all.

Book came on time, very nice and clean, no bends. It has lots of good visuals for teaching kids the relation between fractions , decimals and percents.

I continually use this pictorial book to help familiarize students with fractions. The graphic representations and supportive numerical information (expressed as fraction, decimal, & percentage,) on the reverse of each graphic are very valuable. Extremely useful and USER-FRIENDLY teaching tool! Many thanks.

Great for math in my classroom!

As described -- fast shipping -- thank you!!

This book has helped me in my classroom. The kids understand it more, because it deals with real, everyday things they are aware of.

Has pictures of "fractions" that kids are familiar with, such as 1/2 of a pair of shoes, 1/7 of a week, 1/3 of a traffic light.It is laid out with the picture on the right hand page, and on the left hand page nice and big, the fraction on top (1/6), the words in the middle (of a six-pack), and on the bottom both the decimal (.166) and the percent (16.6%)So here comes my question about this book... wouldn't you round the repeating .166666 up to .167 or put a line over the 6 to show it's repeating ? (I'm no math authority, but that's the way I understand it.) That's o.k., my son has fun finding "mistakes" and figuring out what it "should be," which is a teaching opportunity in itself.I found this book more useful as reinforcement and review once I had already introduced my son to fractions, percents and decimals, and their relationship to each other. Otherwise, a kid may see the logical connection to 3/4 of a sandwich and the fraction, but be confused by the decimals and percents. Of course, that can be an opportunity to explain how they are related. :) But the explaining will be up to you... that's not covered in this book. It's more of a visual-aid teaching tool. I was a bit disappointed when I first got it at how simple it was, but It really is handy to have something like this to use.

Piece = Part = Portion gives students a visual teaching tool to learn about fractions = decimals = percents using everyday examples that they are familiar with in their lives. For example the traffic lights that they only see on light up at a time for 1/3 or .33 or 33% gives them a new way to relate math to a useful way to think about new concepts. This helps by using the familiar to teach a new concept and make it easy to remember and use in the future. This book is great for the age range it is targeted age and grade levels, where decimals, percents and fractions are taught. I used it often with my 5th grade classes the two years I taught these grades and they helped many of the children in those classes to see new relationships in math and be able to use them to solve problems. This is a math teaching tool that I have owned and used in the classroom for a few years now with great success.