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Series: Book Ideas

A Holiday with Too Many Tamales

October 22, 2018

How is it possible to have too many tamales? Well, Maria finds out in the holiday storybook Too Many Tamales by author Gary Soto.

  • Topic: Number Operations
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
  • Tags Seasonal, Food, Holiday, Books, Gary Soto, Family Math, Too Many Tamales
Series: About the Collaborative October 3, 2018

New Book Connects Early Math Teaching with Developmental Research

A new book released in August 2018 from the Collaborative examines the connections and questions that arise from discussing math experiences in early childhood settings and the research into children's mathematical learning.

  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
Series: Book Ideas September 11, 2018

3 "Mathical" Books for More Advanced Counting

Along with being "mathical" award winners, these books provide compelling contexts that help primary grade children understand why more advanced counting is useful and that it isn’t always efficient to count by ones.

  • Topic: Counting
  • Age/Grade Level: Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
  • Tags Sheep Won’t Sleep, Judy Cox, Max’s Math, Kate Banks, One Big Pair of Underwear, Laura Gehl
Series: Hear from the Experts June 22, 2018

Instructional Tools to Integrate Language and Math Concepts with Halla Jmourko

Halla Jmourko discusses two innovative instructional tools for integrating language and math concepts in the classroom, The Cubing Game and Three Way Tie.

  • Age/Grade Level: Adult Learners, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
  • Tags Games, Promising Math
Series: Book Ideas March 22, 2018

3 "Mathical" Counting Books with Winning Appeal

The Mathical Book Prize is an annual award organized by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (MSRI). With an aim to "inspire a love of mathematics in the everyday world in children of all ages," the winners…

  • Topic: Counting
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Count the Monkeys, Mac Barnett, 8: An Animal Alphabet, Elisha Cooper, Baby Goes to Market, Atinuke
Series: Ideas at Work January 29, 2018

Exploring the Three-Reads Math Protocol for Word Problems

Teachers in four schools recently experimented with a "problem stem" protocol for helping their children understand the math going on in the word problems they face in class. This was part of our Big Shoulders…

  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
Series: Book Ideas January 10, 2018

3 Children’s Books that Build an Understanding of Equivalency

Long before young children are writing equations with the equal sign, they are exploring how amounts that look different can actually be equivalent.

  • Topic: Number Sense, Number Operations
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade
  • Tags Ellen Stoll Walsh, Eve Merriam, April Pulley Sayre, Balancing Act, Twelve Ways to Get to Eleven, One is a Snail Ten is a Crab, Books, Equivalence
holiday activities for kids, childrens books about food
Series: Book Ideas October 24, 2017

5 Children’s Books About Food for the Holiday Season

The holiday season usually brings with it any number of family dinners and communal feasts. For young children, this is a great time to engage in math.

  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
  • Tags Holiday, Ten Apples Up On Top, Books, Tana Hoban, Alison Jackson, Gary Soto, Cathryn Falwell, Dr. Seuss, I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie, Too Many Tamales, Seasonal, So Many Circles So Many Squares, Food, Feast for 10
Series: Book Ideas September 26, 2017

Count on Feasting: Delectable Holiday Math Activities

The holidays are coming up, and usually that involves a lot of eating. This provides plenty of opportunities to find math all around us.

  • Topic: Precursor Concepts, Counting, Number Operations
  • Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers, Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
  • Tags Holiday, Gary Soto, Cathryn Falwell, Too Many Tamales, Feast for 10, Seasonal, Mary Ann Hoberman, Food, One of Each
Series: Ideas at Work September 20, 2017

A Flurry of Ideas for Winter Math Activities

It’s autumn, which means there’s a feeling that cold weather is on its way. A small comfort in the changing weather is that it offers some opportunities for winter math activities.

  • Topic: Number Operations, Measurement
  • Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
  • Tags Graphing, Shoes, Nature, Seasonal
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