Two of Everything by Lily Toy Hong


Two of Everything
Reviewed By: Janet Young
Author & Illustrator: Lily Toy Hong

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Recommended Grade Level: Kindergarten – 4th grade

Common Core Content Standards Addressed
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.A.1
Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.1
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.B.6
Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value and properties of operations.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.B.9
Explain why addition and subtraction strategies work, using place value and the properties of operations.1

Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4 Model with mathematics.

Summary
Mr. and Mrs. Haktak lived a simple life.  One day while working in his garden, Mr. Haktak dug up a brass pot.  As he carried this mysterious pot back to his home, Mr. Haktak accidentally dropped his coin purse with five coins into the pot.  When he returned home, his wife peered into the pot and accidentally dropped her one and only hairpin in.  Upon retrieval, she found two hairpins and two purses and therefore, double the coins they had before.  The couple soon realizes that they will have two of everything they put into the pot and will no longer be poor.  However, one day Mr. and Mrs. Haktak accidentally trip and falls into the pot, producing an identical couple.  To solve this problem, each couple used the magic pot to double everything they had and they lived as best friends and neighbors, with two of everything.

Rating
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I would give this book 5-stars.  It can be used in multiple grades to demonstrate a variety of math principles such as doubling by addition and multiplication as well as an introduction to exponents.  Additionally, the story is entertaining and humorous allowing children to learn math in a fun and organic way.

Classroom Ideas
This book provides a unique way for students to be introduced to the concept of doubling.  A teaching idea for this book is to pair students and have them use manipulatives to demonstrate this concept.  One student chooses several cubes between 1 and 20 to “put into the pot”.  The other student must match the number of cubes in the pot and together the group determines how many cubes they have all together and writes a corresponding equation.        

Comments

  1. Traci DelliCarpiniMarch 12, 2018 at 7:54 PM

    This book sounds like a funny and engaging way to learn about addition and multiplication. By having the students use manipulatives, it provides students a hands on approach to learning and visualizing the concept of multiplication. The students can also choose numbers at random, which will confirm that students are not just memorizing the numbers in order, but that they actually understand the doubling factor.

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