![]() ![]() Each time you do so, you will find another application of a natural mathematical concept that you had not noticed before. Die-cut windows reveal the interiors of the houses and the book can also be read from back to front. Just as our forebears developed our number system from observing the order of nature, the reader is subtly led to see and understand the real meaning of numbers. Annos Counting House (Book 1 in the Beautiful Math Series) by Mitsumasa Anno See Customer Reviews One by one, ten children move from their old house into their new house with all their possessions. But the seemingly simple plan of the book is deceptive: look more carefully and you will see one-to-one correspondences groups and sets scales and tabulations changes over time periods and many other mathematical relationships as they occur in natural, everyday living. ![]() ![]() Gentle watercolor pictures show a landscape changing through the various times of day and the turning seasons, months and years, and the activities of the people and animals who come to live there. ![]() In this book, Mitsumasa Anno, the creator of the brilliantly inventive Anno's Alphabet, invites young readers on another stimulating adventure of the imagination-this time into the world of numbers and counting. As they try to bring sense and order into what they observe, they are actually performing basic mathematical feats. Children start to count long before they learn their ABC's, for they are constantly comparing and classifying things and events they observe around them. Every child is a natural mathematician, according to Mitsumasa Anno. ![]()
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