![]() The greedy raja in this mathematical folktale learns what it means to be truly wise and fair as Rani shares the billion grains of rice with her impoverished village. A lovely expression of Indian culture to boot, this book offers more than mathematics. The final delivery comes via 256 elephants spread across a double fold-out panel. The book’s illustrations offer a detailed and strikingly beautiful visual accompaniment to the story as a parade of increasingly large animals present each day’s portion – parrot, peacock, crane, monkey, antelope and so on. Rani, its clever, courageous young heroine does a good deed for a greedy raja, and when offered a reward, she asks only that he give her one grain of rice, doubled each day for 30 days. ![]() One Grain of Rice by Demi uses the more old-fashioned book medium to teach an entertaining math lesson about the power of doubling. If you’ve explored, you’ve already heard about the concept of a bedtime math story, a way to indulge youngsters’ appreciation of stories while also showing them that math can be interesting and fun. ![]()
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