This book is from the new Random house Mathematics Program, K-6, which focuses on actively involving the student by using familiar objects to emphasize the reality of math. This editorial emphasis led directly to the idea of photography as illustration. What better way to show a set of three apples than to photograph three real apple! A good idea…but many technical problems and a moderate production budget.

Special features: Each individualized element in the book was shot separately to size.  The transparencies were then stripped together by page, registered to the type, and color-separated in position.