• Books to Love!

  October 16, 2009

  Have you read any good books lately?  This time of year makes me think of the darling book by Nancy Carlson, Harriet’s Halloween Candy.  It is just a natural for sorting and classifying.  Put together bags of objects to sort and classify.  Introduce Venn Diagrams (one, two and three circle) to students as a way to think about the attributes.  Sing Ron Brown’s song, “Attributes,” from the Math Math Math.  If you have a document camera, introduce a set of objects and start to sort them.  Ask for a volunteer to continue sorting.  See if the students can guess the rule for sorting.  Don’t forget to make fractions from the set when they are sorted.

  I have fallen in love with two new books.  The first one is the third in the series by Cindy Neuschwander, Pastry School in Paris.  If you remember, she is the author of many books including, Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream and the Sir Cumference books.  The first two in the series are Mummy Math and Patterns in Peru.  This new book is all about capacity.

  You will really appreciate Betsy Franco’s new book, Zero Is the Leaves on the Tree.  Sing the songs, “Zero, Zero” by Ron Brown on the Math Math Math CD.  The other song of Ron’s that is all about the properties of zero is “Zero is a Hero” found on Math Concepts I and II.

  I can’t get enough of the great books for teaching math!  I would write more but falling asleep….. loved meeting the teachers on Monday in Riverside.  You Seventh Day Adventist teachers rock!  Work on getting your conference on the cruise ship.  Loved seeing my friends in Eureka on Wednesday.  

  Mathematically yours,

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