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Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Computation and Picture Books

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
This sample chapter from Hurst's book Picturing Math is an excellent resource for using picture books and activities for learning computation.
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Teach With Picture Books: One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Author provides a summary, discussion questions, background information, pre-reading and after-reading questions, as well as extension ideas for math and language arts for the folk tale from India, One Grain of Rice.
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Books in the Classroom

Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site: Data Gathering and Analyzing

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
Carol Hurst provides this sample chapter from "Picturing Math." Gathering data is a frequent part of solving problems and satisfying curiosity, which includes working with graphs and using mathematical tools such as averaging and other...
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Better Lesson

Better Lesson: How Many Cubes?

For Teachers K Standards
Students love to have choice and move around the classroom in this measurement lesson that begins with a beloved picture book.
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Writing Fix

Writing Fix: Useful Shapes: Analytical Writing in Primary Math Classrooms

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st Standards
In this lesson, the book entitled The Greedy Triangle, written by Marilyn Burns, is shared. After sharing this read-aloud book, students will illustrate pictures that incorporate the triangle. Then will write three reasons why a triangle...