Tagged as: Animals
Giddy Up Math: Animal Games and Books for the Early Years
Many topics for young children can be a great opportunity to explore the math in interests they have. Animals is a popular one, full of many options. When introducing math animal games and books can be a natural entry point for the early years.
Series: Book Ideas
3 Animal Picture Books That Explore Questions About Data
March 14, 2017
Data analysis uses math to make sense of the world. It is compiling information and describing it in a quantitative way: how many?
- Topic: Data Analysis
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Animals, Graphing, Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger, Ann Whitehead Nagda, Cindy Bickel, How Many Snails?: A Counting Book, Paul Giganti Jr., Birds, Kevin Henkes
Series: Book Ideas February 15, 2017
Explore Estimation While Enjoying a Whopper of a Tale!
This book is a delightful way to start a discussion about estimation in the early grades. Is it reasonable that Hugh Thomas caught a million fish?
- Topic: Number Sense
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade
- Tags Animals, Estimation, Subitizing, Books, Numerosity, A Million Fish...More or Less, Patricia McKissack
Series: Focus on the Lesson August 16, 2016
Mouse Collections
Preschool storytime is a great time to teach mathematics! In this video, two teachers use Ellen Stoll Walsh's "Mouse Count" to illustrate the concept of "less and more."
- Topic: Number Operations
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Animals, English Language Learner, Play, Books, Ellen Stoll Walsh, Mouse Count
Series: Book Ideas July 25, 2016
4 More Kids’ Books Packed with Geometry
For kids books, geometry doesn't have to just be reciting the shapes. Here are books that can begin rich geometrical discussions.
- Topic: Spatial Relationships, Shape
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Animals, Blocks, Arts, Pat Hutchins, Daniel Kirk, Betsy Franco, Lois Ehlert, Robert Louis Stevenson, Lucy Micklethwait, Color Farm, Color Zoo, Block City, Grandpa's Quilt, I Spy Shapes in Art
Series: Focus on the Lesson February 1, 2016
Movement Counts
Students roll a die and mimic animal movements to connect counting words, visual number arrangements, and actions.
- Topic: Counting
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Animals, English Language Learner, Play, Books
Series: Book Ideas October 13, 2015
Make Room for Halloween Math
Have some Halloween fun with the witch’s tale Room on the Broom. In this lively story by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler, a witch makes room for her animal friends to ride on her broomstick……
- Topic: Number Sense, Number Operations
- Age/Grade Level: 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Animals, Seasonal, Place Value, Holiday, Books, Room on the Broom, Julia Donaldson, Axel Scheffler
Series: Focus on the Child June 11, 2015
Changing Quantity with Child 13
A student computes how many objects are in a collection that is hidden from view.
- Topic: Number Operations
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Animals, Child 13
Series: Focus on the Child June 11, 2015
Parts & Wholes with Child 29
A kindergarten student determines how many bears are in and out of their cave.
- Topic: Number Operations
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Animals, Child 29
Series: Book Ideas September 19, 2014
Halloween and Animal Fun While Exploring Big, Bigger, and Biggest
The Biggest Pumpkin Ever by Steven Kroll and A Pig is Big by Douglas Florian are two children's story books that present opportunities for children to explore the mathematical concept of measurement, particularly the Big…
- Topic: Measurement
- Age/Grade Level: Pre-K, Kindergarten, 1st Grade, 2nd Grade, 3rd Grade
- Tags Animals, Big and Small, Seasonal, Nature, Holiday, Books, The Biggest Pumpkin Ever, Steven Kroll, A Pig is Big, Douglas Florian
Series: Book Ideas April 16, 2013
Concept of “Getting Bigger” in The Growing Story and Three Feet Small
The Growing Story and Three Feet Small are two wonderful picture books that address a “math all around us" concept: growing taller.
- Topic: Measurement
- Age/Grade Level: Infants, Toddlers, Pre-K, Kindergarten
- Tags Animals, Big and Small, Books, Michael Rosen, Helen Oxenbury, The Growing Story, Ruth Krauss, Three Feet Small, Valeri Gorbachev
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