Rob Bolster

This book is appropriate for 1st-4th grade. It's about fractions and teaching students different values of fractions using a hershey's chocolate bar. I thought this was a very creative way to teach kids fractions, and most kids love chocolate, so I think that it is very engaging in that regard!

The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Fractions Book is a non-fictional informational book that shows students how fractions can be used to divided a Hershey bar into several pieces. Not only does the book take students through the various ways it can be broken apart but it also teaches them a little bit about the history of Hershey chocolates!

I would recommend this book for students in second and third grade. Numerous visual representations are used throughout the book - mainly the candy bar and show more it's different divisions - so students can see how fractions can be represented with candy. It can be paired with a manipulative - a Hershey's candy bar - so students can follow along with the representations in the book and have a tactile demonstration at their fingertips. As the book precedes it often poses questions to the reader about which way they would divide the bar if it was up to them and why. These questions allow students to use fractions to justify their reasoning for how many pieces of chocolate they would want and how many they would want to share with a friend. They also show students the real world applications fractions can have in an interesting way - by using candy. Students could also use this book in pairs or small groups when learning about fractions and see how the different fractions they break their bar into effects the amount each person ends up with in the end! show less

This book uses a Hershey's Chocolate bar as an example of fractions- the bar is divided into 12 parts. It would be a cool book to use with students to teach them about fractions. But my problem with the book would be giving the students a bar of chocolate each. It doesn't seem like a good idea, hot hands=melted chocolate. Plus students are probably going to want to eat it afterwards so you'll be left with some crazy kids.

This book is a great resource that brings together Americas favorite chocolate and related it to fractions. By using such a common item children are able to see and relate how fractions broken up. This book is a good use to cross literature with a math lesson.