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Words for Math
Comparisons
Marcia S. Freeman
www.rourkepublishing.com
© 2008 Rourke Publishing LLC
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PHOTO CREDITS: © Christine Balderas: title page, page 4, 11; © Nancy Brammer: page 4; © Michal Besser: page 5;
© Francisco Romero: page 7; © Peter Hansen: page 8 © Franklin Lugenbeel: page 10, 11; © Cloki, © Bluestocking: page 11;
© Felix Möckel: page 13; © Siberia, © Brian McEntire: page 15; © Michael Valdez: page 17; © Ryan KC Wong,
© Julián Rovagnati,: page 19; © Bluestocking: page 21; © Soubrette: page 22.
Editor: Robert Stengard-Olliges
Cover design by Nicola Stratford.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Freeman, Marcia S. (Marcia Sheehan), 1937-
More ice cream : words for math comparisons / Marcia S. Freeman.
p. cm. (Math focal points)
Includes index.
ISBN 978-1-60044-641-2 (Hardcover)
ISBN 978-1-60044-685-6 (Softcover)
ISBN 978-1-60472-052-5 (Lap Book)
ISBN 978-1-60472-105-8 (eBook)
1. Arithmetic Juvenile literature. 2. Counting Juvenile literature. I. Title.
QA115.F738 2008
513 dc22
2007018018
Rourke Publishing
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Table of Contents
Objects and Stuff 4
Comparing Numbers of
Objects and Amounts of Stuff 12
Many or Much? 14
Fewer or Less? 18
Glossary 23
Index 24
4
How many more players are on the green team?
How much more ice cream can

you eat?
Objects and Stuff
5
Why are there fewer fish in the class aquarium
today? How much less water does our aquarium
have than the one in the office?
6
Objects are things we can count, such as books
and bananas. Stuff is a word to describe such
things as sand, water, and air. You can’t count
stuff unless you put it in a container.
7
We use words such as many, much, some, a lot,
lots of, gobs, tons, and dozens to describe
numbers of objects and quantities of stuff.
8
When you talk about quantities of objects, you
simply use numbers. You say, “I have 32 marbles.”
9
When you talk about amounts of stuff that you
can’t count such as sand, water, and air, you
might say, “I have a lot of sand.”
10
Or, you can put the stuff in containers and then
count how many containers. You might say, “I
have two bowls of ice cream.”
11
How Many? How Much?
12
How do you know which words to use

when you compare quantities of pebbles
or pudding, sisters or syrup, marshmallows
or milk?
Comparing Numbers
of Objects and Amounts
of Stuff
13
14
When you compare things that you can count
like children, you say, “How many more?”
How many more girls are there than boys?
Many or Much?
15
16
When you compare stuff that you can’t count like
soup or salad, you say, “How much more?”
How much more salad do you have
than James?
17
18
Do you have fewer cookies than your classmate
or do you have less cookies? Do you have fewer
milk in your glass than your sister or do you have
less milk?
Fewer or Less?
19
20
The rule for fewer and less is simple:
use fewer if you can count the things, use less if
you can’t.

Fewer pancakes, less syrup.
21
22
How many more or how much more? Fewer than
or less than? Now, you are ready to compare the
numbers of objects and quantities of stuff in
your world.
23
Glossary
amount (uh MOUNT) — how much of something there is
container (kon TAIN er) — something to put things in,
such as a box, can, or bowl
quantities (kwant uh tees) — amounts or numbers
of things
syrup (SUR uhp) — a thick sweet liquid
24
Index
Further Reading
Endres, Hallie. How Much Money?. Yellow Umbrella Books, 2006.
Giganti, Paul Jr. How Many Blue Birds Flew Away?. Greenwillow
Books, 2005.
Murphy, Stuart J. More or Less?. Rourke Publishing, 2005.
Recommended Websites
www.kidsites.com
www.geocities.com/enchantedforest/tower/1217/math3
About the Author
Marcia S. Freeman loves writing nonfiction for children. Her fifty or more
children’s books include science, geography, and math titles. A Cornell
University graduate, she has taught science and writing to children and
their teachers from kindergarten through high school.

amounts 9, 12
compare 12, 14, 16, 22
count 6, 9, 10, 14, 16, 20
fewer 5, 18, 20, 22
less 5, 18, 20, 22
many 4, 10, 11, 14, 22
more 4, 14, 16, 22
much 4, 5, 11, 16
numbers 7, 8
quantities 7, 8, 12, 22