Magic Counting: explore the world of numbers through the shapes and patterns around us

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Nabeel Khan Tete Garcia

Magic Counting

explore the world of numbers through the shapes and patterns around us

Nabeel Khan, Tete Garcia

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Scribblers
01 June 2024

Children's & Educational; Early learning: numbers & counting; Nature, the natural world (Children's&YA); Religion & beliefs: general interest (Children's&YA); Educational: Mathematics & numeracy

Discover the magical world of numbers, shapes, and geometry that surrounds you every day!

What if the way that we traditionally teach kids how to count misses the clear connections between numbers, shapes, and the world around them?

Nabeel Khan invites you to draw on your child's innate interest in geometry, patterns, and shapes as an intuitive and fun way to learn about numbers

- starting their maths journey from a place of playfulness, curiosity, and tangible connection to their environment. We can find numbers and shapes everywhere- in the natural world, in art and architecture, in symbolism, and in the sky above us.

This approach is just as straightforward as 1, 2, 3, 4, but also provides kids the tools to see their world in a new way, and the agency to understand the fundamental connection between numeracy and geometry, changing their perspective for life.

Welcome to the world of magic counting!

Excellent gift for children who are more artistically inclined that will help them realise the exciting creative potential of numbers and geometry!

A brilliant tool for educators and librarians to help students to 'see' numbers and get curious about how mathematics offers a unique and mind-expanding lens with which to view our world.

'This counting book with a difference points out the shapes, patterns, and numbers that feature and recur in our lives.' -Imogen Russell Williams, The Guardian

'Khan and Garcia celebrate numeracy in this wide-ranging exploration of ways that numbers infuse the world with meaning ... Garcia's unlined, jewel-tone illustrations take a contemporary graphic style that suits the images' accompanying captions. Occasional questions ('How many triangles can you count?') encourage both interactivity and appreciation for the 'magic' of numbers.' -Publishers Weekly

'This elegant board book is, first, a concept book on counting, but it adds in geometric shapes and symbols to make it almost a coffee table conversation piece on mathematics ... This book clearly was a labour of love, and the pleasing gold and other tertiary colours it uses in the artwork are reason enough to pick it up. For board book afficionados who like introducing sophisticated concepts to their toddler.' -Stephanie Tournas, Youth Services Book Review

By: Nabeel Khan
Illustrated by: Tete Garcia
Imprint: Scribblers
Country of Publication: Australia
Dimensions: Height: 217mm, Width: 197mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 510g
ISBN: 9781922585400
ISBN 10: 1922585408
Pages: 22
Publication Date: 01 June 2024
Audience: Children/juvenile , English as a second language
Format: Board book
Publisher's Status: Active

Nabeel Khan (Author) Artist and geometry practitioner Nabeel Khan's wonderfully simple approach to counting invites a fun and visual way to learn about numbers and a powerful set of tools for making sense of the world around us. The study of geometry and its related number patterns has been shown to increase lateral thinking, helping us to use our imagination to look at problems in a fresh way and come up with a new solution. Nabeel is keen to share this approach with the world in the hope that the next generation might delight in the wonders of geometry and spark some brilliant new discoveries. Tete Garcia (Illustrator) Tete Garcia is a Spanish illustrator who has found her creative home in the coastal landscapes of Sydney's Northern Beaches. Tete Garcia's work is all about joy, fun fun, and a splash of vibrant and bold colours!. Tete's art captures the beauty of everyday life, celebrating quotidian situations and the serenity of nature with a captivating charm. Her mission is to create art with value, meaning, and purpose; looking for more than a visual but also a story behind it. When she's not bringing her illustrations to life, you'll find Tete crocheting away, exploring museums, sipping coffee by the beach, or trying to catch some waves while learning to surf.