How Much Is a Million?: A Fun Classic Picture Book About Math and Numbers for Kids (Ages 4-8) (Reading Rainbow Books)

Buy for your fav teacher! This book is perfect as a read aloud for any grade class (even high schoolers enjoy a good read aloud!!!!). Since it deals with numbers and bigger numbers at that, it would be perfect for a math class or even connect to a personal finance or money related unit! Of course it would also be good for an elementary school teacher or English teacher’s classroom library! The size of this book is great and the illustrations are imaginative and creative!

I love this book! Every child should read it, as well as every member of Congress!

This is such a great book for explaining a million to young children. I homeschool and bought this book for my six year old. He loved the explanations and laughed at a lot of the illustrations/examples used to convey the magnitude of one million. What surprised me is how well my four year old grasped this idea as well. Although he has not truly started on place value, he has started saying things to the effect of “I want a million pieces of pizza” and “I love you one million”. This demonstrates his understanding of one million is a large amount. We will circle back to this book once our school year starts again and really dive into place value concepts. Before I homeschooled, I was a third grade teacher in public school and I really wish I had this book in my personal library to teach with back then!

What a fun book - I read this as a child and bought this for my own children. A million is a very difficult concept to grasp but this book does just that. The pictures are so lively and detailed - there are lots of things to see on every page. It also goes into "billion" and "trillion." It uses everyday objects like stars and other children to help kids intellectualy grasp how much a million really is! A classic and should be in every child's home library.

I have had this book for years for my kids and now grandson and nieces and nephews. It is the best book for understanding the enormity of these numbers that are used in everyday language. I think this book should be required reading not just for all grade schools, but high school and college required social science, economics, and political science classes.

Great book for imagining, stimulating and comparing concepts of large numbers. I purchased it for one of my grand-girls’ birthday but really wanted it to keep it for myself.

Very cute and enjoyable way to demonstrate a hard to fathom number for children. Beautifully illustrated.

As a finance manager for many years I used and continue to use this book to explain how much is a million and make sure that all of the corporate analysts remember that a million is a really big number! Great teaching tool with memorable examples.

Fantastic book! I teach upper elementary, and this book is really helpful for understanding the size of really big numbers.

... dieses Buch bestellt, weil ich eine bilinguale vierte Klasse unterrichte. Als wir den Zahlenraum bis zur Million lernten, habe ich damit veranschaulicht. Die Kinder haben das Buch geliebt und schauen es sich heute noch gerne an :)

Great book. My daughter was asking what is the last number in the universe and what is a million and this really made her able to visualise the numbers. Thank you.

１00万、１0億、1兆など子供達にはなかなか馴染みの無い数字を、面白い具体例を挙げて説明しています。例えば「1から100万まで数えたら、何日かかるか」とか「100万匹の金魚が入る金魚鉢はどの位の大きさになるか」など。しかも巻末には、これらの数字をどのようにして計算して出したかも、ちゃんと説明してあります。大人も読んでいて楽しい本です。

brilliant book - helped me greatly with lesson planning