HISD EARLY CHILDHOOD DEPARTMENT ∙ ELEMENTARY CURRICULUM AND DEVLOPMENT

Exploring Math Through Literature

The ECH Pumpkin Patch

Complete your glyph and share with a pumpkin partner.

Math Through Literature

Discuss how read alouds can

be used to teach math lessons.

Discuss activities that can be

incorporated into read alouds.

Use the Prekindergarten

Guidelines to create a lesson

using a read aloud.

Identify children’s books and

activities that can be used to

teach math lessons.

Objectives

For many of us, the storybook shelf isn’t the first place we go to when we start to plan a math lesson.

But children’s books can be a great math teaching tool. They spark students’ imaginations in ways that

exercises in textbooks or workbooks often don’t.Marilyn Burns

Math Through Literature

NO MATH!

I KNOW THE PERFECT

BOOK FOR THAT MATH

LESSON!

• Combining mathematics instruction with read alouds is a natural way to integrate mathematics into your daily activities.

• Children learn best when subject matter is meaningful and useful and literature brings meaning to math.

• Using math related children’s literature helps children realize the variety of situations in which people use math for real purposes.

Math Through Literature

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

By

Eric Carle

The Very Hungry Caterpillar

V.A.7. Child uses the verbal ordinal numbers.

Activity

V.A.9. Child recognizes one-digit numerals, 0-9.

Activity

V.E.3. Child recognizes and creates patterns.

Activity

The Doorbell Rang

By

Pat Hutchins

The Doorbell Rang

Activity

V.B.3. Child uses informal strategies to

share or divide up to 10 items equally.

V.E.2. Child collects data and organizes it in a graphic representation.

Activity

V.A.3. Child counts 1-10 items, with one count per item.

Activity

Each table has a book and a skill from the prekindergarten guidelines. Please work with your table partners to create a

math activity based on your story and specified skill.

Its Your Turn

Books for Math

Awesome Math WebsitesMath and Literature

• http://wps.ablongman.com/ab_vandewalle_math_6/54/13859/3547916.cw/index.html

Math Websites:• http://illuminations.nctm.org/Search.aspx?view=search&gr=Pre-K-2• http://www.brainpopjr.com/math/• http://pbskids.org/games/ (Can look for by skill)• http://www.prekinders.com/numbers-counting/• https://www.teachingchannel.org/videos/pre-k-math-lesson• http://mathforum.org/teachers/pre-k/projects.html• http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Browse/PreK-12-Subject-Area/Math/Price-Range/Free/Grade-

Level/PreK-K• http://www.prekinders.com/math-printables/• https://www.michigan.gov/documents/mde/Math_DK_242336_7.pdf

Math Apps:• http://igamemom.com/2013/08/07/10-free-math-apps-for-elementary-school-kids/• http://pbskids.org/apps/• http://fun.familyeducation.com/online-games/media-and-learning/69665.html?page=1

Math Connectionshttp://libguides.bgsu.edu/content.php?pid=46818&sid=1259753

Questions, Comments, Concerns

Thank you for attending. I hope you learned something new.

Kimberly Guinn

kguinn@houstonisd.org

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