Title: A Book I Wish I Had Written
Review: I have been intrigued with number bases ever since I learned about them in 6th grade. It gave me an entirely different and deeper understanding of our base 10 system and set my brain up for understanding the binary system of computers later on. I have been toying with ways to teach students about this concept ever since and this was also one of my ideas. In fact, I have collected rubber alien figures with differing numbers of fingers so I can use them as manipulative examples of how and why other number bases would work.The only thing I do differently is place less emphasis on the binary system, until students understand a higher base. But I have seen others teach binary first and other bases later and that has worked for them, too.OK, this book is not for everyone, but I do think it is a cute and interesting introduction to other number bases and, for students for whom concepts like this are actually fun and exciting, it is definitely worthwhile.
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