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Kittens plus puppies plus shapes to explore.
Add bison, a princess and dragons galore.
Seven math poems with a rhythmical beat
equal fun that will bounce you right out of your seat!

About

Stone, Tiffany, Winters, Kari-Lynn, and Sherritt-Fleming, Lori. (2009). aRHYTHMetic: A book and a half of poetry about math. Illustrated by Scot Ritchie. Vancouver: Gumboot Books. 42 pages.  Ages 4-9.

Also published in French as aRYTHMétique, translated by Christine Jutras-Tarakdjian (Gumboot, 2009).

aRHYTHMetic cover

aRHYTHMetic back

Ideal for home or classroom use, these rollicking rhymes explore basic concepts of arithmetic in new and engaging ways. Catch the mathematical beat with the title poem, “aRHYTHMetic.” Count by two’s with “Teacup Pups” and “Kitty Chat.”

Learn about ordinal numbers from a bison that loves being “Third in the Herd.” Discover “The Shape of Things” all around us. Roundup “Rot-TEN Dragons” into groups from ten to one hundred. And help “Princess Estimation” guess the number of spots on her new Dalmatian.

These seven math poems by Tiffany Stone, Kari-Lynn Winters and Lori Sherritt-Fleming, illustrated playfully in full colour by Scot Ritchie, are guaranteed to equal fun that will bounce you right out of your seat!

We have online videos of the first book launch, held April 2009 at Science World in Vancouver, featuring the Oscar-worthy stage performances of all three authors. Videos are 24 minutes long in QuickTime format. Download small movie (28MB) or large movie (124MB). (Right-click “save as” to download to your computer.)

Purchase

• Aniceto & Bigg: softcover
• Gumboot Books: softcover
• Amazon: softcover

Author visits

Kari is available to visit schools, libraries, birthday parties, workshops … Please see more about author visits.

Press

Brief mention in Vancouver Sun, 3/24/2009:

There are many fabulous books out there that connect early numeracy concepts with early literacy. Vancouver-based publisher Gumboot Books has a number of books that combine poetry and mathematics, including the new title “aRHYTHMetic”. For more titles, check out Pat Dickinson’s article “Choosing Books You Can Count On” available online from the Journal of the National Association for the Education of Young Children.

Reviews

Marlene McLaren, teacher

Today I read your delightful book aRhythmetic to my Grade 1 students. You and your co-authors certainly know how to reach the minds of young chlildren in such a creative and fascinating way. Not only does this book entertain, but it teaches.

At first, I thought the content would primarily focus on arithmetic; however, I am so pleased to see an emphasis, as well, on higher level vocabulary.

I often teach a special spelling unit on words that have “-ation” as an ending. Fabulous! I can now use your book as a springboard to my lesson. You include such words as “estimation, celebration, Dalmatian, information, approximation, and nation.” These higher-level words are used in such imaginative ways! I also will use your book when introducing ordinal numbers, skip counting by tens, and multiplying and dividing by ten.

Thank you for your collective energy, your creative minds, and your infectious enthusiasm for children, reading, and learning.

* This book is spelled aRHYTHMmetic in English and aRYTHMétic (one ‘h’) in French. Not arythmetic, arhithmetic, arithmetic, arythmatic, arhythmetique, or arhythmatic. (This list provided for the benefit of search engine mis-spellings.)