The Doorbell Rang School & Library Binding – Illustrated, 1 Oct. 1999

Who like cookies? All of us! Who wants to share their cookies! No-one. This is a great (short) tale where two children have SIX cookies each and the number dwindles as the doorbell rings and rings again and more children arrive ready to share. Funny and lively, I have had great success using this in a primary class when introducing division. There are lots of sample lessons online.

This is a fantastic book for introducing division to young children. I’ve used this for teaching year one and it’s a great way to get children to understand division in a real life, concrete way.

I don't know how I have got through 16 years of teaching in KS1 before finding this book - it's a brilliant starting point for work on division, fractions & sharing problems. I used it with my mixed YR/1&2 class - everyone was able to access the text with different levels of challenge in the maths.

Emphasise on sharing and learning to count and subtract

Lovely story. Bought for my 4 year old nephew

I was a bit hesitant in ordering this book because it was a bit pricey but it was a great quality book. I'm a Reception teacher so it was a great way to introduce sharing objects equally. Defentely worth it!!

Great book for explain about sharing with young children. Suitable for Year 1 as well.

I cannot recommend this book enough! I have used it over and over when introducing a new class to division and it works like a charm. Really good for starting discussions about sharing with KS1.