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Counting on Frank by Rod Clement
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Counting on Frank (original 1990; edition 1994)

by Rod Clement

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A boy and his dog present amusing counting, size comparison, and mathematical facts.
  NMiller22 | Aug 14, 2019 |
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This book is about Frank, who is a big dog and Frank's owner who is good at math. Frank's owner shares his knowledge of size and measurement throughout the book. This book is great for math courses introducing measurement and comparison. ( )
  Rmg052 | Apr 26, 2021 |
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  OakGrove-KFA | Mar 28, 2020 |
Wow, I love this book. It even made me think that I have a brain, why aren't I using it as much as Frank in the story? This book is about a little boy measuring all sorts of things with certain objects. He mentioned 11 humpback whales can fit into his house. How does he know the measurements of his house to even know that? This is a great encourager to have students motivated into knowing all of these things! This book made me want to know everything Frank knows. I also love how the author mentions in the first page Frank's dad saying, "if you have a brain use it," and brings the same line again in the very last page. ( )
  cynthiahurtado | Apr 20, 2019 |
A kid uses his brain to solve math equations.
  jthodesen01 | Sep 21, 2018 |
Young readers will instantly befriend this unconventional boy who uses facts, figures, and his own wild imagination to make math fun! Follow Henry and his big dog, Frank, as they present all sorts of wacky counting and size comparison facts. Highly amusing, vividly drawn watercolors complement the text.
  Scopuslrc | Mar 7, 2016 |
Summary:
This is a great informational book. The boys dad says, "you have a brain. Use it." So he does. He starts calculating a ball point pen and ten how dogs can fit in his room and if his dog Frank were a hump back whale only ten would fit in his room. He comes up with all these fun cool facts about everything. In the end it has fun questions to answer.

Personal Reaction:
I really like this book. It has a lot of great informational facts in it. You could teach a class that not everything you have to learn is boring.

Classroom Extensions:
1. Read while teaching on informational books.
2. Have the students come up with 3 fun informational facts
  olivialawson | Apr 12, 2014 |
Summary:
A little boy loves facts and counting. His dad always tells him, " You have a brain, use it!" He gets out his notebook and his pen and just starts writing and figuring facts. Such as, how much ink is in an average ball point pen? Whenever he gets the notion to start figuring out facts, he always has his right hand man, or in this case, dog, who's name is Frank. He and Frank work on solving all the figuring and fact problems, like how many Franks would fit in his bedroom or if he knocked 15 peas off his plate at dinnertime, how long until the peas reached the table.

Personal Reaction:
I liked this book. I thought it provided facts and figures in a fun, engaging way for children. I also liked how the text and illustrations went well together. Students would love this book, and be challenged to maybe find some facts and figures on their own.

Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. The back of the book provides some different facts and figures for you already ( to get the answers you have to hold the book up to a mirror to be able to read them), but you could challenge your students to come up with one of their own.
2. Go on a scavenger hunt in the classroom and work out your own facts and figures, like how many red blocks would it take to build a castle.....
3. have your students make their own fact journal for a week and see what all they come up with.
  ElizabethNagel | Nov 14, 2013 |
This book is about a kid named frank who thinks about everything in large terms. He multiplies everything to figure how many of one thing it would take to fill another, even calculates how many peas it would take to fill a room.

This is a really cute book and would be great for teaching children number sense. He uses a lot of extremely larger numbers that would really make kids think.

1. I would bring a jar full of jelly beans and a contest of guessing how many are in the jar.

2. We could make cut outs of all the children’s outlines then see if they wrap around the class room.
  MisMary | Apr 21, 2013 |
Counting on Frank by Rod Clement is a great book. I love all of its humor and how the boy in the story loves to count everything. This book is wonderful to read to students that are just starting to learn math and getting interested in mathematical concepts. This also might help students want to start counting things. You can also have many activities with this book like getting a tub of blocks and asking your students to predict how many blocks are in the tub. Teachers can also produce a jar of jelly beans and have students guess how many jellybeans are in the jar. Whoever predicts the correct number wins. I would defiantly recommend this book to teachers whose students are first learning how to count and estimate quantities. I will defiantly read this book to my students because I think it is a funny book, and also a great book that has allot of math facts. There were even some facts that I did not even know myself. These facts could be helpful to students in the real world. ( )
  gjchauvin504 | Aug 27, 2012 |
This book is always a hit with my students. This is a book to read early in the school year. It pairs nicely with “Math Curse” both show that math is everywhere. The boy who narrates the story is either a measuring maniac or a “fool for figuring”. The illustrations are large and colorful. The narrator’s large dog, Frank, is featured on every page and many of the math problems are about him. Frank wears sunglasses but is otherwise not anthropomorphized. The narrator’s parents don’t discourage his math mania but are not especially supportive. They have a funny answer to most of his math facts. I do like the father’s tag line, “You have a brain use it.” The text is simple and there are more math problems and solutions in the back of the book. Students can solve and illustrate the extra problems or even create their own. ( )
  rwilliamson | May 7, 2012 |
Summery: A very intelligent little boy was told by his dad to use his brain. he decides to use his brain and come up with fun facts. He informs his readers that it would take 24 of his dog to fill up his whole house. the facts are crazy and silly but it is very informing and fun.

Personal Review: Facts are cool to read nonetheless but the way this child shows random facts is so fun. Me, being a child at heart, loves reading little fact things so I think kids would really like this book also.

Classroom Extension: 1.I would tell me kids to bring in some fact that the find interesting.
2.
  JaceySteed | Nov 22, 2011 |
Great read and unexpected illustrations my Y1 & Y2 class love this book. ( )
  Bernessa | Nov 24, 2009 |
Media: pen and paint
Genre: Informational
Age Appropriateness: primary, secondary, and intermediate ( )
  Eowyn_33 | Nov 14, 2009 |
Counting on Frank is about a little boy who calculates everything in his every day life. If Frank is taking a bath he calculates how many hours it would take to fill the whole bathroom with water with both taps running. Frank hates peas so he calculates how many peas he would have if he knocked fifteen peas off his plate for the 8 years of his life. Frank does these mathmatics every day.

The book a great to explain how math can be a fun thing and how we can use it every day. I am not a fan of math but it actually made me think about how many whales I could fit into my house.

The students could find out the measurements of their houses and we could then decide how many whales could fit into their houses. We could make math fun and enjoyable.
  raet1980 | Mar 25, 2009 |
A boy and his dog present amusing counting, size comparison, and mathematical facts.
  NMiller22 | Aug 14, 2019 |
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  tmquitshaw | Dec 26, 2011 |
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