Making Connections with Math
Through Literature
Bennie’s Pennies by Pat Brisson
Props |
Penny gameboard |
Graphic Organizer |
Cents sheet |
• Penny Gameboard: pennies/ pennies to nickels/ pennies-nickels-dimes
• Graphic organizer and Cents sheet – you must choose items to buy/ show two ways to pay
Billy’s Button by William
Arcosi
Frog and Toad are Friends
by Arnold Lobel “The Lost Button”
http://www.lindaslearninglinks.com/buttonunit.html
• Tell stories with props
• Attributes
• Counting, sorting,
patterning, graphing
One Kitten for Kim
by Adelaide Holl
Rooster’s Off to See the
World by Eric Carle
One Kitten for Kim |
Roosters Off to See the World |
Graph |
• Graph
•Pizza fractions
• Pizza problem solving
The Foot Book by Dr.
Seuss
How Big is a Foot?
by Rolf Myllar
More great math literature
One Duck Stuck by Phyllis Root
Splash by Ann Jonas
 |
How Many Snails? by Paul Giganti, Jr.
