Tuesday, October 25, 2011

Book Club

Title: Monster MathAuthor: Anne Miranda
Illustrator: Polly PowellRecommended Grade Level: Prekindergarten to 3rd gradeCommon Core


Mathematics Standards Addressed:
Counting and Cardinality PK.CC3.

Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities to 10; connect counting to cardinality.
a. When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

Counting & Cardinality K.CC
Know number names and the count sequence.
1. Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
2. Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).
3. Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing acount of no objects).

Operations & Algebraic Thinking 1.OA
Add and subtract within 20.
5. Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).
6. Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 – 4 = 13 – 3 – 1 = 10 – 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 – 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).

Operations & Algebraic Thinking 2.OA
Represent and solve problems involving addition and subtraction.
1. Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.1
Add and subtract within 20.
2. Fluently add and subtract within 20 using mental strategies.2 By end of Grade 2, know from memory all sums of two one-digit numbers.

Operations & Algebraic Thinking 3.OA
Multiply and divide within 100.
7. Fluently multiply and divide within 100, using strategies such as the relationship between multiplication and division (e.g., knowing that 8 × 5 = 40, one knows 40 ÷ 5 = 8) or properties of operations. By the end of Grade 3, know from memory all products of two one-digit numbers.

Summary:
This a wonderful entertaining story about a monstrous birthday party. While using math and rhyming patterns to explain the events throughout the birthday party, there is an presentation of a loving mother and child relationship.


Rating: Four Stars


Classroom Ideas:You can use this book to introduce the relationship of addition and subtraction, counting by tens, sequencing, and the image that numbers are everywhere. I would also use this book to present rhyming to my students. One lesson plan I was thinking of doing with my 3rd grade class is to read the book during the unit of multiples of 10. As a lesson they would count from 100 back down to ten by creating their own story and theme; this will show the interaction between math and writing.

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