Bakari Garcia (One Hundred Hungry Ants) Review

ONE HUNDRED HUNGRY ANTS

Posted By Bakari Garcia

Title: One Hundred Hungry Ants

Author: Elinor J. Pinczes

Illustrator: Bonnie Mackin

Recommended Grade Level: K-2

Common Core Standards Addressed:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1 (Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.)

Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

Younger students might rely on using concrete objects or pictures to help conceptualize and solve a problem. Mathematically proficient students check their answers to problems using a different method, and they continually ask themselves, "Does this make sense?" They can understand the approaches of others to solving complex problems and identify correspondences between different approaches.

Summary: This book is about one hundred hungry ants that are going to a picnic. They are trying to get there as fast as they can. What are they going to do?

Rating: ***** This book was an enjoyable book to read from beginning to end. The book was predictable, and it involved grouping in many different ways. This book can also involve the use of fractions as well as simplifying them. Lessons could be adapted to involve different and more complex forms of addition and subtraction.

Classroom Ideas: 

1.)  Students  could be given a small cup of peanut butter, and 30 raisins. They are then given one popscicle stick each to spread the peanut butter onto the celery sticks. Students are told to put ten raisins in the peanut butter that’s already on the celery. Then, you tell students to remove two of them. The raisins are on the log, and the raisins are considered the ants. This can also be done with addition as well, along with a different alternative foods such as icing.

2.) Students can have a set of small object, and these objects can go up to 100, just like the ants in the book. They could be asked to be separated into different groups. Grouping can also be done as well. You could then have them use an even number, and that number could be grouped in different ways. Some odd numbers can also be grouped equally as well.

3.) You can also use money as well. Adding up to one dollar can also be done in different ways. The grouping of different coins would be similar to the groupings that were used in “One Hundred Hungry Ants.”