Math Picture Books
National Chocolate Week Math!
Hey folks! It’s National Chocolate Week! What? How did I not know… I try to keep up with these important things! I just saw it yesterday while walking through the airport. So in celebration of such a wonderful week, here is some chocolate math! and another link! and another link! Happy Mathing, Dr. Nicki
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )More Great St. Patrick Day Math Activities
Did you know that there was an old lady who swallowed a clover? Who knew… I sure didn’t. But I knew of her cousin, you know the one that swallowed a fly! Oh my, I don’t know why she swallowed the fly…. I love that story! But, her cousin swallowed a clover. And, there’s so [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Geometry Graphic Organizers
Here is a great sample of writing about geometry in a story form. I really like the way they set it up as an individualized student book. This really helps students to discuss the attributes of various shapes as well as make connections to real life. You could follow this template for whatever city you [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )2 great books to kick off the school year
In the beginning of the year, one of the first things you want to do is set a context for numbers. Two great books to do this are Used Any Numbers Lately (prek-2nd) and Math Curse (3rd grade and up). Used Any Numbers Lately is a great abc book that explores numbers in our world. It [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Tally Marks and Guided Math
Tallies: A special way to skip count by 5′s: Building Conceptual Understanding: As a mini-lesson to introduce counting by tally marks I read Tally O’Malley http://www.stuartjmurphy.com/books/level_2/detail.php?level_id=2&book_id=26. When introducing tallies, I have the children come up in groups and they count off. Every fifth student makes their arms like a tally mark across the other 4. [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 4 so far )Coordinate graphing in Guided Math Groups
When I am introducing Coordinate Graphing, I read A Fly on the Ceiling. This is a great math fable about how Descartes came up with the Cartesian Coordinate graphing system. I also use these mathwire activities because they provide great scaffolding for the topic: http://www.mathwire.com/geometry/coordgeom.html Here are some other resources: http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/using_coordinate_grid/ http://www.plottingcoordinates.com/plottingbasics.html http://www.mathplayground.com/locate_aliens.html
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )Math Picture Book of the Day: One Red Dot
This book by David A. Carter is great for teaching Plus 1 facts. It is this fantastic pop-up book, that counts all these amazing things that pop off the pages, plus one red dot. We follow up with a 3 level lesson. Concrete level: Students roll the dice and count out the unifix cubes and build [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Using Picture Books for Guided Math Lessons
Picture Books are great springboards for guided math lessons. They allow you to immediately engage the students through storytelling and then to follow up with appropriate intervention or extension activities. I will be sure to discuss my favorite books on this blog. I buy most of my books used from Amazon and Barnes and Nobles [...]
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