About the Book

You Can Count on Monsters gives children an intuitive understanding of the building blocks of numbers 1-100 and the basics of multiplication – with the help of some very playful monsters. The book uses a unique teaching method designed to motivate kids to learn, while exploring the concepts of factoring, and the role of prime and composite numbers. The pages are filled with colorful and creative artwork that engages and intrigues young minds. It's a fun monster math book that kids will actually want to read. You Can Count on Monsters is available for purchase online or at your favorite bookstore.

Named "Best Juvenile Book" at the Bookbuilder's New England Book Show

Reviews

Kidlantis

Do you have a student who loves numbers? You Can Count on Monsters is a children's book that explains numbers through the use of geometrical monsters...(More).

The Sacramento Bee

Math is no monster in the clever hands of Richard Evan Schwartz, a math professor at Brown University....(More).

Publishers Weekly

This compact, innovative book counts to 100 using prime numbers represented as monsters, each with identifying characteristics (two resembles a bee with two buggy eyes, and three is an angry-looking triangular creature)....(More).

The Math Association of America

This delightful book is the result of the author's desire to teach his daughters about primes and factorization. Apart from an introduction and some explanatory material in the back, it consists of one hundred double pages....(More).

Goodreads

This special counting book visually explores the concepts of factoring and the role of prime and composite numbers. The playful and colorful monsters are designed....(More).