Book Title: Spaghetti And Meatballs For All! A Mathematical Story

Your Name: Sarah Curtis

Author: Marilyn Burns

Illustrator: Debbie Tilley

Recommended Grade Level: Pre-k to 3rd grade

CCSSM Standards: Content Standards

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.MD.A.1

Describe measurable attributes of objects, such as length or weight. Describe several measurable attributes of a single object.

Measure and estimate lengths in standard units.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.A.1

Measure the length of an object by selecting and using appropriate tools such as rulers, yardsticks, meter sticks, and measuring tapes.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.5

Recognize area as an attribute of plane figures and understand concepts of area measurement.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.MD.C.7

Relate area to the operations of multiplication and addition.

Standards for Mathematical Practice:

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively.

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4 Model with mathematics.

Summary: Mr. and Mrs. Comfort decide to have a family dinner and invite their children, parents, in-laws, and neighbors. To seat the 32 guests, eight square tables and the appropriate number of chairs are rented and arranged according to a plan devised by Mrs. Comfort. However, as the guests arrive, they rearrange the furniture so they can sit together, resulting in mayhem until Mrs. Comfort's original configuration once again evolves. Subtitled "A Mathematical Story," the focus of this picture book is math concepts, not story.

Rating 1-5 Stars: 4.5 Stars

Classroom Ideas: This book is excellent for introducing elementary children to area and perimeter. The extensions available at the end of the story increase the possible learning to be attained, illustrating how to actively engage the children in hands-on activities to learn about area, perimeter, multiplication and division. Children can find out how many seats are available for each table formation in the book. They can also determine how many meatballs everyone can eat. This is a lively and interesting tale that evolves into spirited and animated discussions involving mathematical concepts.

One Grain of Rice by Demi

Posted by Matthew Rudansky

Title: One Grain Of Rice, A mathematical Folktale
Author and Illustrator: Demi
Grade Level: 5th Grade

 Common Core Mathematics Standard: 
1. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.OA.A.1 Use parentheses, brackets, or braces in numerical expressions, and evaluate expressions with these symbols.
2. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NBT.A.1 Recognize that in a multi-digit number, a digit in one place represents 10 times as much as it represents in the place to its right and 1/10 of what it represents in the place to its left.
3. CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NBT.B.5 Fluently multiply multi-digit whole numbers using the standard algorithm.

 Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice:
CCSSM SMP 5 Model with mathematics.

 Summary: This folktale is about a clever, young girl named Rani who outwits the greedy Raja to feed the people of her province. During a famine, Rani gets caught gathering rice escaping from a sack in transit from a royal storehouse to the Raja’s residence. Accused of stealing, Rani explains she collected the fallen grains to return to the Raja and not to feed herself and starving family. The Raja, moved by the girl’s honesty and loyalty grants her any wish. Rani asks for one grain of rice, but the Raja insists she deserves more. Rani obeys and asks that the one grain be doubled on the second day then, for a total of thirty days, the preceding day’s total be doubled. With the windfall, Rani feeds the entire province, ends the famine and makes the Raja a wiser and kinder sovereign. Rating: ***** I highly recommend this book because it shows students the power manipulating numbers while making mathematical computation fun and challenging. It teaches geometric progression and it’s surprising consequences in a beautifully illustrated picture book that is nothing short of a morality tale with a female heroine! Classroom Ideas: This book could be used with several mathematical topics including addition, multiplication, algebraic equations, and mental math guessing. Students could use manipulatives (even grains of rice) to count out the doubling progression until the activity becomes physically impossible. As a contest, each student could right down their best guess of the amount of grains Rani receives prior to the end of the read aloud and the manipulative exercise. Guessing or reasoning questions make a nice break in the read aloud which could also become a homework assignment for kids to discuss and reason through with an adult or older sibling. Either over one or two days, competition is always an engaging and fun activity.

Rating: ***** I highly recommend this book because it shows students the power manipulating numbers while making mathematical computation fun and challenging. It teaches geometric progression and it’s surprising consequences in a beautifully illustrated picture book that is nothing short of a morality tale with a female heroine!

Classroom Ideas: This book could be used with several mathematical topics including addition, multiplication, algebraic equations, and mental math guessing. Students could use manipulatives (even grains of rice) to count out the doubling progression until the activity becomes physically impossible.

As a contest, each student could right down their best guess of the amount of grains Rani receives prior to the end of the read aloud and the manipulative exercise. Guessing or reasoning questions make a nice break in the read aloud which could also become a homework assignment for kids to discuss and reason through with an adult or older sibling. Either over one or two days, competition is always an engaging and fun activity.

Title: Betcha! By Stuart J. Murphy

                          

                                    

Title:  BETCHA!

Posted by Maria L. Vega

Author: Stuart J. Murphy

Illustrator: S.D Schindler

Recommended Grade Level: 1-6

CCSSM Content Standards:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.NBT.C.4

Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.B.7

Add and subtract within 1000, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method. Understand that in adding or subtracting three-digit numbers, one adds or subtracts hundreds and hundreds, tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose or decompose tens or hundreds.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.NBT.A.1

Use place value understanding to round whole numbers to the nearest 10 or 100.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.OA.A.2

Multiply or divide to solve word problems involving multiplicative comparison, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem, distinguishing multiplicative comparison from additive comparison.1

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.4.OA.A.3

Solve multistep word problems posed with whole numbers and having whole-number answers using the four operations, including problems in which remainders must be interpreted. Represent these problems using equations with a letter standing for the unknown quantity. Assess the reasonableness of answers using mental computation and estimation strategies including rounding.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.5.NBT.A.2

Explain patterns in the number of zeros of the product when multiplying a number by powers of 10, and explain patterns in the placement of the decimal point when a decimal is multiplied or divided by a power of 10. Use whole-number exponents to denote powers of 10.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.6.NS.B.2

Fluently divide multi-digit numbers using the standard algorithm.

CCSSM SMP:

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1 Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4 Model with mathematics.

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP5 Use appropriate tools strategically.

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP7 Look for and make use of structure.

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP8 Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.

Summary: This book is a fun way to teach multiplication, division, place value and estimation. Two friends challenge each other by estimating the value and amount of random objects.  As they challenge themselves they use various math strategies to come up with either a correct answer or a close estimate.

Rating: *****

Classroom Ideas/ Lesson Ideas:

1^st -2^nd Grade: Students will sit in a large circle. The teacher will pour a bag of jellybeans onto the floor. The children will identify the three types and guess of which type there is the most. Then, they will estimate how many there are of each type. We will quickly discuss how close the students were to being correct in their estimates.

3^rd -6^th Grade: Choose something that may be challenging to count.  For example, a crowd of people in a large place, the number of tables in a restaurant or pop corn in a bag. Facilitate a conversation with your students of different strategies for making these estimates. Then have a student find the true value of the estimate.

Just A Minute

Title: Just A Minute

Author: Yuyi Morales

Illustrator: Eric Carle

Recommended Grade Level: K-1st grade

Common Core Mathematics Standard:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.C.7

Compare two numbers between 1 and 10 presented as written numerals.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.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.

Common Core Standards For Mathematical Practice:

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4 Model with mathematics.

Summary: This story is about a lady named Grandma Beetle who gets an unexpected visit from Senor Calavera. Senor Calavera told grandma Beetle that it's time for her to go with him. Using both Spanish and English words to count the party preparations, Grandma Beetle cleverly delays her trip with Senor Calavera and spends her birthday with her grandchildren and Senor Calavera. When grandma Beetle was ready to go, Senior Calavera decide not to take her and promised he wouldn’t miss her next birthday.

Rating:  I would rate this book a 5 out of 5. I really enjoyed reading the book and the illustration is so rich in color that it keeps your attention. I love that the book counts up to 10 in both English and Spanish allowing children to learn how to count up to 10 in both languages.

Classroom Ideas:

·   This book can be used in the classroom to help children learn their numbers in English and Spanish.

·   Understand the value of a number is.

·   Children can also learn how to spell the numbers out.

·   I would use it to help children learn time, the value of a minute, hour   ext.