Jack Langone
Grapes of Math
1. I read the book "The Grapes of Math" by Greg Tang. This book features a different poem on each page. Each poem tells a math riddle and has a picture that relates to each riddle. This book's main demographic is obviously children, and uses pictures to teach kids basic counting principles.
2. In this book each little poem demonstrated very basic mathematical ideas like adding, subtracting, and multiplying. Greg Tang teaches kids, or anybody reading the book, that it is faster to subtract from the whole number rather than just adding each unit. You also learn that it is easy to multiply sometimes. For example, on one page there is a pizza with 3 mushrooms on each slice (there are 6 slices). So he is saying it is easier to do 3x6 rather than count each individual mushroom. The book does a great job of teaching these concepts to a younger audience using fun examples and illustrations.
3. Math is a very abstract thing when you think about it. Putting real world examples can always make things easier, especially when you are teaching it to a younger audience. Literature uses these real world examples and pictures to represent mathematical concepts.
I like the way you explain how putting math into real world examples makes it easier to learn
ReplyDeletegreat example from the story, you explained it super well!
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ReplyDeletenice job on this post. i love this book. i like how you said that literature uses pictures and real world examples to make math concepts more accessible.
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