A Shopping Trip

Title: A Shopping Trip
Learning to Add Dollars and Cents Up to $10. 00 Without Regrouping

Author: Barbara M. Linde
Length 16 pages

Recommended Common core standard 3-6 grade

Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed: Operations and Algebraic Thinking, Number and Operations in Base Ten, Measurement and Data

A Shopping Trip is a fun filled math book about Alma and her mom taking a trip to go shopping. Each page is filled with a realistic situation of Alma buying different items and calculating the cost.

Classroom Idea. This book is a good book to teach addition of dollars and cents up to $10 .00 It gives the students actual images of the money to add, which will help students in making connection with the money they use in real life. It a non-fiction and students can relate to the story and can easily make connections with the shopping trip experience as well. It can also be use to teach decimal fraction and budgeting to older students.

Rate: *****I highly recommend this book for students ages 8 through 12. It is very kid friendly and the picture along with the shopping experience is very relatable to students’ life. It is a book which will entice students to read and incorporate math into their reading. In this book problem solving is incorporated into a light fun filled story, which is what you want your students to do. Have fun while reading and solving mathematical problems.

Wings on a Flea

Title: The Wing On A Flea: A Book About Shapes

Author: Ed Emberley

Recommended Grade Level: 2nd but anywhere from Pre-k to 3rd

Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed: Geometry. Reasoning with shapes and their attributes. Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces.

Summary: This book is great a great read for grades pre-k to 3rd. It can be used as an intro to shapes and also as a way to show how to put basic shapes together to make more complex pictures. It has many pictures made primarily of shapes and rhyming text. At the end, there's a section that shows how to put shapes together to make a picture, such as a flea or clown.

Rating: I give this book a 5 out of 5.

Classroom Ideas: Another way to use this book is introducing students to making their own “Shape people” for younger grades or “shape Town” activities for the older students. This activity could also eventually be followed by a tangram lesson.

Counting on Frank

Title:

"Counting on Frank"

Author & Illustrator:

Rod Clement

Recommended Grade Level:

2nd through 5th grade

Common Core Standards Addressed:

I feel that it addresses the same areas in the Common Core Standards from the 2nd to the 5th grade but at the same time it varies (measurement & data, geometry, operations & algebraic thinking).

Summary:

The story is about a little boy and his dog Frank, who is curious about the things around him. Each page has a new mathematical task that may be as simple as counting jelly beans to multiplication and division. The pictures are great and the little boy's humor is quite appealing, I'm sure children will enjoy as well as the adult that may have to read it.

Rating:

4 out of 5

Classroom Ideas:

The great thing about this book is that it provides different activities that can be done in the classroom. There a word problems that I would have older students solve it individually or in groups. With younger children, I would have them guess how big a whale using different units of measurement, guess how many pennies are in a jar, etc.

Even Steven and Odd Todd

Title: Even Steven and Odd Todd

Author: Kathryn Cristaldi

Illustrator: Henry B. Morehouse

Recommended Grade Level: 2

Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed: Operations & Algebraic Thinking: 2.0A.3. Determine whether a group of objects (up to 20) has an odd or even number of members, e.q., by pairing objects or counting them by 2; write an equation to express an even number as a sum of two equal addends.

Summary: This is a story about Even Steven and his cousin, Odd Todd. This is a funny book. The arrival of cousin Odd Todd greatly upsets Even Steven. Even Steven likes everything even. Odd Todd likes everything odd. For example, Even Steven would like 8 pancakes and Odd Todd would like 7 pancakes. Even Steven goes through hard work with Odd Todd. Then, Even Steven notices that odd and even are both good when he wins the Perfect Garden Contest.

Rating: *****I highly recommend this book as it gives several ideas for hands-on activities to help students understand between odd and even numbers. The story also enhances critical thinking by having students think why it matters whether a number is even or odd using examples from things they see in their environment that always comes in even or odd numbers.

Classroom Ideas: This book could be used with several mathematical topics including odd numbers, even numbers, number sense and counting (when you count by 2's all the numbers you say are even). Students could do several activities that can help them identify whether a number is even or odd.

More or Less by: Stuart Murphy -Pia

Title: More or Less

Author: Stuart J. Murhy

Illustrator: David T. Wenzel

Recommended Grade Level: First Grade-Third Grade

Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed:

Number and Operations in Base Ten:

1.NBT.3 -Compare two two-digit numbers based on meanings of the tens and ones digits, recording the results of comparisons with the symbols >, =, and <.

Summary: This story was about a young boy named Eddie who attempts to figure out a “mystery person’s” age while he is sitting in a chair blindfolded. He uses the assistance of his peers to make educated and logical math guesses instead of taking random guess. They’re guess have to make sense! Each student proposed a different mathematical concept such as even or odd and focusing on greater and less than. Some examples of the questions that the characters asked were “ Is the number even or odd” “Are you older than 24? Is it less than 10? More than 7?

Rating: I really like this book and I would rate it 5 out of 5 stars. It’s very fun and even takes place at a carnival. If I myself enjoyed the story and setting, I am more than positive that young students will be really engaged. The illustrations are really bright, realistic, funny, and detailed. The students will be able to “take a picture walk and predict what is happening in illustrations. I plan on using this story for one of my math lessons sometime in November when we cover greater than, less than, and equal to.

Classroom Ideas:

If I use this story in my classroom, I plan on playing some kind of jeopardy style or guessing game during the mini lesson. I can have students work together with their partner. I will provide the students with a handout with questions as well as clues to help them answer the questions ( Can You Guess What Number I Am?) In turn, they will earn points for every right question that each person get. At the end, the teams which earn the most points will receive a small prize (carnival prize).The questions will begin simple and become more difficult.The question formats will be similar to the questions that are in story such as “Is the number larger than? Is it more than 5? etc.

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.

A Collection for Kate

Title: A Collection for Kate

Author: Barbara deRubertis

Illustrator: Gioia Fiammenghi

Recommended Grade Level
– Kindergarten-
2nd Grade

Rating: ***** I would definitely recommend this book. It is
cute, witty and child friendly. The book focuses on Addition not through direct
numbers but through the amount of objects collected by each class. The pictures
are bright and colorful and easy to see what objects are used. The math in this
book isn’t overwhelming and confusing.

Topic Addressed: Addition

Common Core Math
Standards Addressed: Counting and Cardinality, Operations and Algebraic thinking,
Measurement and Data

Summary: Kate and her classmates are asked to
sign up and bring in a Collection of things. Kate is excited at first but when
she can’t find “a lot of things” like everyone else, she becomes frustrated.

Classroom Ideas: This book can be used at home or in
school. It is part of a series of books called Math
Matters. The
last page and back cover contain an Addition chart and several activities. It can
be linked to Literacy, Social Studies and help students work on Predictions. I would
have students use their white boards and other manipulatives while I read the book
out loud so that they could record the amount of items collected. I would bring
in a collection of my own and ask my students to bring in a collection they have
as well.