Math Content Books

Math Content

Measuring Penny

Math Content

Measuring Penny, tells the story of a girl, Lisa,  who is assigned to go home and measure something. She decides to measure her dog, Penny. Lisa measures a variety of things about her dog (tail length, paw print and height). She uses standard units and nonstandard units. This book is adorable. Students love to read about dogs and this helps introduce them to measurement

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Lesson Ideas: Have students go around the classroom measuring things in standard and non standard units. Then have students go home and measure something of interest. Students can measure height, weight, volume, and a variety of other things.

Read Aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kH1Qh6bgq0

Author Information: @LoreenLeedy http://www.loreenleedy.com/

The Door Bell Rang

Math Content

The Door Bell Rang, tells the story of two children who are sitting down to eat some cookies their mother has made. They first count out how many each will get but then the doorbell rings. Someone comes in and they want cookies too. This continues until the house is full. This story is so cute and realistic as the students are so eager to eat their cookies only to have their supply grow smaller as the doorbell rings.

Lesson Ideas: Provide paper cookies for the students to have and then as you read the book have the children divide the cookies up as they should in the book. This is a great way to get students thinking about division.

Author Information: http://pathutchins.com/

Read Aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXtu90JnDkM

One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab

Math Content

One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab, tells the story of counting by feet. As we read the book, we learn how many feet crabs, snails, people, dogs, and spiders have by counting. Then we read as we tackle larger numbers like fifty and see how many combinations we can come up with. I love this book because we can see how animals can be used to count, add, and multiply.

Lesson Ideas: Provide the students with manipulatives of the animals to use as we go through the book. Then after reading provide addition and/or multiplication problems  and have the students use the manipulatives to come up with the correct answer.

Author Information: http://www.aprilsayre.com/  @aprilpsayre

Read Aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPxeGRBJ7nQ

Lemonade for Sale

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This book tells the story of a group children in Elm Street Kid’s Club and their quest to raise money to rebuild their clubhouse. The group hatches the plan to sale lemonade to make money. The children graph their results each day and in the end have enough money to rebuild the clubhouse. This story introduces students to graphing in a fun way and helps them think of problems and solutions.

Lesson Ideas: Discuss problem and solution, have the students brainstorm a different way to make money for the clubhouse, and then work on graphing exercises.

Author Information: http://www.stuartjmurphy.com/  @vizlearning

Read Aloud: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4BiNXZIjQs