Math Lists at Open Wide, Look Inside. Hetherington%20&%20Simons. Two of Everything. First Grade Addition and Subtraction at Open Wide, Look Inside. This post is intended to be helpful in teaching addition facts up to 18 and the corresponding subtraction facts to first graders.
The books and websites selected offer resources on different levels for those students who may be struggling, and for others who made need enrichment. The Hershey's Kisses Addition Book by Jerry Pallotta illustrated by Rob Bolster: This book introduces children to basic addition. It illustrates a plus sign, a minus sign, an equal sign and a Hershey’s Kiss, which is the counting unit used throughout the book. From there, clowns carry, drag, throw and juggle Hershey’s Kisses to illustrate each addition equation. Most of the equations use single digits, but the book then adds single digits to the number 10. CoolMath4Kids These two links offer several choices to students to explore the topic of addition and subtraction . Mathematics and Children's Literature. Frank. Measurement Podcast – Counting on Frank at Open Wide, Look Inside. Picture Books for Math - ChildrensPictureBooks.Info. Math. Often as teachers we have a terrific theme (Survival, Balance, Interdependence) or topic (Transportation, Inventions, Rain Forest), and plenty of awesome trade books with which to explore that theme or topic, but what we're missing is the "hands-on" component.
Hands-on has become almost a buzz word that I dislike when simply slapped onto a math curriculum that might use manipulatives for one lesson each week. But what I mean here by hands-on is projects, experiments, activities, and explorations that use "stuff" to help students truly understand what they're learning. When I taught third grade, for example, high school students who returned to visit their old classroom didn't reminisce about worksheets, basal reader stories, or spelling quizzes. They instead fondly recalled when we created a working model of the Erie Canal lock system out of milk cartons, or a paper mache mountain to model the water cycle in the Appalachians, or when Mr. First of all, the books. PoffL. Departmental Honors Departmental Honors is a distinction conferred at the student's graduation for the successful completion of an approved two-semester academic project in the major discipline.
To be eligible, a student must have at least a 3.2 cumulative GPA and at least a 3.5 in the major, and the project proposal must be approved by the Departmental Honors (DHON) Committee before the student begins work on the project. After the project proposal is approved by the DHON Committee, the student works for two semesters under the supervision of a selected professor in the major. At the end of the first semester, the student prepares a progress report to be approved by his/her chosen examining committee at a formal progress report meeting to allow for guidance and feedback mid-way through the project.
Questions or comments to: DHON@utc.edu. Picture+Book+Power+-+Connecting+Children's+Literature+and+Mathematics. Math and literature idea bank. Math Literature and Graphing Activities > I will soon be a student teacher.
In my method class for > math I was instructed to create a book lesson intergrating > math. I want to use Harriet's Halloween Candy by Nancy > Carlson, since it will be Halloween when I present this to > my class... I thought I would begin my lesson by reading the book, > then demonstrate what they would be doing.
I am going to > tell everyone that they will all get a bag of candy, then > when you get the candy, I want you to sort it out into > different groups such as tootsie rolls, etc., then color in > graph of the amount of candy you have. ( I am showing them > as I am talking) How does that sound? Your thoughts are well thought out... KathyB/1st/IA, 10/26/00 on teachers.net math board Best of luck when you present your lesson. Hand this bag to one person - what do others think? Go on to sort, graph, diagram (using rope circles on the floor works good and working in groups helps). Patterns & Algebra. Featured Book: Two of Everything Two of Everything by Lily Toy Hong recounts a Chinese folk tale.
The farmer finds a magic pot which doubles everything that is put into it. This humorous story is a great introduction to function machines and input/output tables as teachers make the transition to the "doubling pot" and recording information in an input/output table. Picture Books About Math. As Easy as Pi: Picture books are perfect for teaching math.
Here are some other terrific titles to try… Appelt, Kathi.
Bats on Parade. Onegrainofrice. Magicpotworkmat-1.