Discussing Cultures and Shapes in A Triangle for Adaora

A Triangle for Adaora by Ifeoma Onyefulu is a delightful book that emphasizes several Big Ideas in geometry, including that comparing attributes of shapes helps define and classify them and that two- and three-dimensional shapes can be used to represent and understand the world around us. Adaora doesn’t want to eat her paw-paw fruit because she…

Numbers and Fun with Anno’s Counting Book

Teachers who go home from our learning lab with Anno’s Counting Book immediately put it to use to get their students exploring “how many?” After reading Anno’s Counting Book, Nancy Beza at Waters Elementary encouraged her preschoolers to make a list of objects that could be found in a winter scene—snowflakes, trees, etc. Each student…