5.0 out of 5 based on 4 reviews. – Customer review on 12/06/2008

This story reads really well with nice rhymes. The little ants are on a quest for a picnic, but discover that spending too much time organizing can result in not getting the product!

It's very good as an introduction to division and multiplication, since the ants regroup to form shorter lines.

This book was sent home with 100 unifex cubes to use along with the book. We used the cubes as the ants. We started off with one line of 100 cubes (as the ants). Then, in the story, they split into 2 lines of 50, so we split our cubes, too. Then, 4 lines of 25, and so on.... Excellent book to use with the cubes to demonstract how many different ways to make 100.

This is a fun read-aloud story.

5.0 out of 5 based on 4 reviews. – Customer review on 21/03/2006

Fantastic for looking at arrays, division and multiplication of 100. Can be easily adapted for all grades/year levels. My students enjoyed choosing their own number and figuring out how many different ways the ants could march, as well as trying to determine which way would get them to the picnic the fastest!
I would strongly recommend this book for classroom teacher and parents with mathematically inquisitive children!

5.0 out of 5 based on 4 reviews. – Customer review on 14/12/2009

Excellent book to introduce the flexibility of numbers, sharing (early division)and develop reasoning and problem solving around number. The story is fun and easy to read. It has a repetitive pattern that my class of 7 and 8 year olds caught onto very quickly.

We followed up the reading with an activity where we copied the rearrangement of ants with counters and the kids had a lot of fun!

5.0 out of 5 based on 4 reviews. – Customer review on 14/01/2009

My 5 yr old great-nephew Harry is a biological genius who is wildly enthusiastic about entomology and related things. With his younger brother Sam, they like to explore everything but know not to touch, which is a good idea when poking around at the large window-spider's nest under the edge of their balcony, to see if it can be persuaded to emerge. This will spark his interest specifically in ants. Great book.