The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Fractions Book

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 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 show more 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.

This is a wondeful book about fractions! The illustrations are literally mouth watering. I would definitley incorporate a math lesson about fractions with this book. I would also do the activities that are mentioned in the book (giving all students a hershey bar and dividing it up to determine fractions). I love this book and think it is one of the best concept books that I have seen.

The Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Fractions book by Jerry Pallotta uses the familiar chocolate bar to teach fractions. This book may be used from grades two through six.
The book is written in narrative form and directs the reader what to do with his chocolate bar. For example, the page illustrates the chocolate bar broken into eleven-twelfths and then asks the question, “Or would you rather eat eleven-twelfths of a candy bar?” The book does a great job of illustrating fractions using the candy bar.
The web site www.jerrypallotta.com gives biographical information on the author, gives a listing of all of his books, and has the game Hangman that students can play if they have read all of his books.

This is a great book that my students loved. I gave them candy bars to go with the book and we read the book and worked out the fractions as we went. This book talks about fractions using a hersheys candy bar.