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Earth Day—Hooray! By: Stuart J. Murphy Illustrated by: Renee Andriani
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Citation:
Murphy, S. (2004). Earth day--hooray!. New York, NY: HarperCollins Children's Books.
Summary:
Ryan, Luke, and Carly are trying to collect and recycle 5,000 aluminum cans so they have enough money to buy enough flowers for the near by park. They learn a lesson in place value along with facts about recycling. The story helps readers understand how important it is to take care of the earth and learn place value.
Sir Cumferene and All the King's Tens By: Cindy Neuschwander
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Citation:
Neuschwander, C. (2009). Sir Cumference and all the king's tens: a math adventure. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge.
Summary:
Lady Di is having a difficult time counting all the guests who have come to the king's Birthday celebration. They try various ways to try to count all the guests. Eventually it is suggested that they be grouped in 10 rows of 10 people, like an array. Later in the book, different size tents are set up. The largest tent holds 9000 guests, and is the farthest on the left. Next we have 900, 90 and 9. The tents are a good visual example of place value because they show visually the correct position of place value. This book would be a good way to introduce place value into the thousands. It also shows how grouping, and using arrays, can assist in counting.
Neuschwander, C. (2009). Sir Cumference and all the king's tens: a math adventure. Watertown, MA: Charlesbridge.
Summary:
Lady Di is having a difficult time counting all the guests who have come to the king's Birthday celebration. They try various ways to try to count all the guests. Eventually it is suggested that they be grouped in 10 rows of 10 people, like an array. Later in the book, different size tents are set up. The largest tent holds 9000 guests, and is the farthest on the left. Next we have 900, 90 and 9. The tents are a good visual example of place value because they show visually the correct position of place value. This book would be a good way to introduce place value into the thousands. It also shows how grouping, and using arrays, can assist in counting.
A Place for Zero By: Angeline Lopresti
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Citation:
Lopresti, A. S.,& Hornung, P. (2003). A place for zero: A math adventure. Charlesbridge Pub Inc.
Summary
This story presents a lighthearted math adventure with the moral that "sometimes you have to take risks to really count." It also sends a mathematical message that every number has a place in the base ten system. This is a good story for young readers to start to understand place value and it can also introduce multiplication.
The Cheerios Counting Book By:Baraba McGrath
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Citation:
McGrath, B. B., Bolster, R., & Mazzola, F. (1998). The Cheerios counting book. New York: Scholastic.
Summary:
This book is a really good book for children learning how to count up to ten and count by tens. I think this would be a great book to introduce place value with kindergarteners. The book goes from 1 to 10, and then goes from 10 to 100
counting by tens. When the book switches to counting by 10 it starts to group the cheerios together and counts them that way. This is a great way to introduce young children to place value and show them how group of tens are formed. The pages show the number of cheerios needed for that number, and the pages are outlined with different fruit. This would be fun to use in a classroom and actually bring in Cheerios and count along with the book. You could also talk about the different fruit on each page because the children may not be familiar with some of the fruits.This would be a great book to integrate with a counting activity using cheerios or other objects to count by tens.
Math Appeal By: Greg Tang
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Citation:
Tang, G., & Briggs, H. (2003). Math appeal. New York: Scholastic Press
Summary:
This book is a variety of poems and pictures that encourage clever, creative thinking, but
at the same time will teach four important concepts! The four concepts are thinking “out of the box”, being able to find strategic sums, using subtraction to add, and to have the ability to simplify through patterns and symmetries.
Seeds of Change By: Jen Cullerton Johnson
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Citation:
Johnson, J. (2010). Seeds of change. New York: Lee & Low Books.
Summary:
This book is a story about a young girl in Kenya named Wangari. She was taught to respect nature. Growing up she learned to love the land, plants, and animals that were in her surroundings. Throughout her journey to the new city full of skyscrapers, cars, and many people she notices that there are not many trees. She comes to a scene where she says a bunch of machines cutting down trees and removing them. When she returns home she decides to send women out to plant seeds that will grow rows of trees. (During the planting process, addition is being used, along with multiplication.) She determines how many trees must be planted, and over a time how many trees will be planted when done.