This Is Mathematics: Fractions
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Summary
The authors make abstract mathematics "visual": numbers, symbols, and shapes become comic protagonists, building more than 200 everyday scenarios familiar to children and covering 280 core primary-school math concepts. Engaging stories vividly bring primary-school math to life, guiding children to understand mathematical ideas through playful reading, weave a complete network of mathematical knowledge, and spark a strong interest in math—so that children understand at a glance, learn with ease, feel close to math, and fall in love with it.
Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Students in grades 4–6 who are learning fraction concepts
- Children who feel intimidated by math and need to build confidence
- Parents who want to help their children with fractions in a life-based way
- Teachers looking for lively math teaching examples
Not a good fit for
- Older students who need extensive drills to prepare for exams
- Middle-school students who have already mastered fraction operations
Reading tips
- Connect the book's examples to real life, such as practicing fraction concepts when cutting fruit or sharing snacks
- Use the "Math Lab" sections for hands-on activities to deepen understanding
- Parents can read together with their children and discuss the guiding questions in the book
About the publisher
Jieli Publishing House is a publisher focusing on young people's reading, with a distinctive strength in making classical literature and classic works accessible to a broad readership. Its catalogue contains 224 titles, with common categories including classical literature, classic works, history books and science fiction. Representative books include the Chinese classics series such as Dream of the Red Chamber: An Appreciation Edition, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Journey to the West, illustrated editions of foreign classics such as Eugénie Grandet and Around the World in Eighty Days, and history titles such as Records of the Grand Historian: An Appreciation Edition. Its authors and editors include classical writers Cao Xueqin, Gao E, Luo Guanzhong and Wu Cheng'en, editors Zhao Huaxia, Wang Yiqing and Chen Xiaohui, and foreign writers such as Balzac. The press uses appreciation and illustrated editions to lower the threshold for reading classics, serving both exam-related and extracurricular reading needs; as public information is limited, other publishing features are not discussed here.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 关于本书
- 什么是分数
- 比较分数的大小
- 带分数和假分数
- 分数的基本性质
- 给分数排序
- 分数和小数互化
- 分数和小数比大小
- 同分母分数加减法
- 异分母分数加减法
- 分数乘法
- 分数除法
- 带分数除法
- 有0的分数
- 继续冒险吧
- 动动脑筋
- 答案篇
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About the author
Regina Osveller is an author about whom limited public information is available; her nationality, dates of birth and death, and English name are not clearly recorded. Judging from the five works held in the collection, her writing focuses on popular mathematics. Her representative works are the This Is Math series, which addresses fundamental mathematical topics such as ratios and proportions, decimals, fractions, the four arithmetic operations, and whole numbers. Catalogued under popular science, the series is aimed at readers beginning to learn mathematics and explains core concepts one by one in separate volumes, showing that the author is skilled at breaking abstract mathematical knowledge into easily understandable content. Overall, Osveller's work centers on basic mathematics education, with clear subject matter and a well-organized structure that makes it suitable as introductory reading and gives it practical value for mathematical popularization.
Daniel Hawkins is an American illustrator. Public information about him is limited, and details of his birth and death dates and personal background are not available. He is known to Chinese readers for illustrating the "That's Mathematics" series, a set of subject-based comics for primary school students published by World Publishing Corporation. The series covers topics such as whole numbers, the four basic operations, fractions, decimals, and ratio and proportion. In a comic style, Hawkins turns abstract mathematical concepts into intuitive images and weaves knowledge points into storylines, helping children understand mathematics through reading and lowering the barrier to learning. His artwork balances playfulness and readability, giving the series a distinctive character among popular science books and offering a useful reference for the visual presentation of mathematics-themed comics for young readers.
Little public information is available about Qu Shaoyun; the author's nationality, dates of birth and death, and professional background have not been clearly recorded. Judging from the works held in the library, Qu Shaoyun is the author of two popular science books, This Is Mathematics: Ratios and Proportions and This Is Mathematics: Fractions, which are commonly classified as science popularization. Both belong to the This Is Mathematics series and focus on fundamental yet abstract concepts in elementary mathematics, such as ratios, proportions, and fractions. Rather than encouraging rote memorization of formulas, the books emphasize explanation and guidance to help readers understand the meaning and use of mathematical concepts. Although details of the author's personal experience remain unclear, the choice of subject matter shows an interest in basic mathematics education and the popularization of knowledge, with writing centered on concept analysis that may be useful to general readers interested in introductory mathematics and conceptual learning.
