Provides literature-based activities for teaching math to students in grades one through three, each with activities, reproducible patterns, and recording sheets.
Join Lucy, Benjamin, and Bear on their next math adventure. Hooray! It's Bear's birthday. But Lucy's cake falls flat and the party will be a flop unless they can bake a just-right cake in this book about everyday math and perseverance.The Little Elephants' Big Adventures series teaches early childhood math with fun adventures filled with mathematical words. This book uses the concepts of same, similar, different, and enough. Parents can expand the learning with questions to spark conversation. The books are a collaboration of the Purdue Early Achievement Research Labs.
Now teachers can use favorite picture books as springboards to their own adorable class-made books! First read aloud picture books by authors such as Dr. Seuss, Patricia Polacco, and Eric Carle; then invite children to add their own page to a delightful collaborative book. Includes writing prompts, drawing prompts, and reproducible book patterns in appealing shapes. A great addition to any classroom library! For use with Grades K-2.
In this off-beat book perfect for reading aloud, a Caldecott Honor winner shares the story of a duck who rides a bike with hilarious results. One day down on the farm, Duck got a wild idea. “I bet I could ride a bike,” he thought. He waddled over to where the boy parked his bike, climbed on, and began to ride. At first, he rode slowly and he wobbled a lot, but it was fun! Duck rode past Cow and waved to her. “Hello, Cow!” said Duck. “Moo,” said Cow. But what she thought was, “A duck on a bike? That’s the silliest thing I’ve ever seen!” And so, Duck rides past Sheep, Horse, and all the other barnyard animals. Suddenly, a group of kids ride by on their bikes and run into the farmhouse, leaving the bikes outside. Now ALL the animals can ride bikes, just like Duck! Praise for Duck on a Bike “Shannon serves up a sunny blend of humor and action in this delightful tale of a Duck who spies a red bicycle one day and gets “a wild idea” . . . Add to all this the abundant opportunity for youngsters to chime in with barnyard responses (“M-o-o-o”; “Cluck! Cluck!”), and the result is one swell read-aloud, packed with freewheeling fun.” —Publishers Weekly “Grab your funny bone—Shannon . . . rides again! . . . A “quackerjack” of a terrific escapade.” —Kirkus Reviews
Marshmallow Math sets out a fun and novel way of teaching young children math. The book's progressive approach will help to ensure that your child truly understands fundamental math concepts and is able to master basic math skills including counting, addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. The book provides many quick, simple, and fun activities for you and your child to do together.
This is simply a book of colorful photographs of everyday objects, animals, and scenes, one per page, together with a caption naming each picture and a large page number. It is an enjoyable way for young children to enlarge their vocabularies while looking at eye-catching photos. But it was constructed with another mission in mind: teaching children the art of "page-finding," or turning to a certain page in a book upon hearing a page number. The authors hypothesize that learning this skill develops several early mathematical skills and concepts, including an intuitive feeling for what numbers mean: "number sense." This skill also equips the student to participate in tutoring by telephone, a method of service delivery the authors have been developing for over a decade. In a brief introduction, the authors outline a simple series of steps for teaching children page-finding. The rest of the book consists of 125 photographs, selected for their beauty and simplicity from public domain offerings on the Internet.
Delightful illustrations and short, simple exercises help young learners develop essential math skills with confidence. Each standards-based activity focuses on a specific skill. Clear instructions and examples help children complete the lessons successfully. Since each page includes a suggestion for extending the learning and reinforcing the skill, the books are ideal for any setting - a classroom, small-group tutoring, or at-home learning. Book jacket.