{"id":317,"date":"2009-01-09T22:22:49","date_gmt":"2009-01-10T02:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/09\/review-of-greater-estimations-by-bruce-goldstone\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T21:46:13","modified_gmt":"2009-03-01T01:46:13","slug":"review-of-greater-estimations-by-bruce-goldstone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/?p=317","title":{"rendered":"Review of Greater Estimations, by Bruce Goldstone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image347\" height=\"209\" alt=\"greater_estimations.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/greater_estimations.jpg\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Greater Estimations<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by Bruce Goldstone<\/p>\n<p>Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2008.\u00a0 32 pages.<\/p>\n<p>Starred review.<\/p>\n<p>2009 Sonderbooks Stand-out: #3 Children&#8217;s Nonfiction<\/p>\n<p>This book is fascinating.\u00a0 I brought it to a staff meeting, and my co-workers couldn&#8217;t resist looking through the pictures.\u00a0 I&#8217;d enjoy doing a program around this book.<\/p>\n<p><em>Greater Estimations <\/em>presents photographs of large quantities of things &#8212; rubber duckies, popcorn, parachuters, honeybees, plastic animals, and many other things &#8212; and shows the reader strategies for estimating how many there are.\u00a0 The author also talks about estimating length, height (of buildings), weight (of dogs), area, and volume.<\/p>\n<p>This book can capture your attention for a long time, and if it gets you curious about quantity, the author will have achieved his goal.\u00a0 He also teaches you ways to satisfy that curiosity on your own.<\/p>\n<p>I find myself wishing that Bruce Goldstone had placed some answers in\u00a0the back of the book.\u00a0 I do appreciate his point that estimation is NOT about getting exact answers.\u00a0 But I do wish he&#8217;d given feedback on a few more pages to have some idea if my ability to estimate was improving as a result of his hints.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, in life you don&#8217;t get answers given to you.\u00a0 This book gives you tools to help you figure out an approximate answer to numerical questions all by yourself.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0805083154\/sonderbooksco-20\" target=\"outside\">Buy from Amazon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Find this review on the main site at:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/greater_estimations.html\">www.sonderbooks.com\/Childrens_Nonfiction\/greater_estimations.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greater Estimations by Bruce Goldstone Henry Holt and Company, New York, 2008.\u00a0 32 pages. Starred review. 2009 Sonderbooks Stand-out: #3 Children&#8217;s Nonfiction This book is fascinating.\u00a0 I brought it to a staff meeting, and my co-workers couldn&#8217;t resist looking through the pictures.\u00a0 I&#8217;d enjoy doing a program around this book. Greater Estimations presents photographs of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,27,31,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-nonfiction-review","category-mathematical","category-stand-outs","category-starred-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}