Part One:
The book I read was The Grapes of Math by Greg Tang
and illustrated by Harry Briggs. Each page was a different riddle about
counting. There is not a storyline, instead each page is a different riddle.
Each riddle is about anything from counting ants to seeds on a strawberry. The
book teaches kids to count.
Part Two:
One could consider
this book working with different units. If the riddle is counting how many
snails are walking in a parade, the unit would be snails. Each riddle has a
different unit to use so the children reading this book will learn to recognize
the importance of units. 
On another page there is a pizza
with mushrooms. There are eight slices of pizzas, each slice has three
mushrooms. This page is a really good example of symmetry because the slices
are symmetrical. Each half of the pizza has four slices and each quarter of the
pizza has two slices. If The reader wants to determine how many mushrooms are
on the pizza in total, they could easily multiply the number of mushrooms on a
slice (3) by number of slices (8). Therefore, the number of mushrooms is 3x8 =
24 mushrooms.
this looks like a book that can teach multiple concepts and the riddles presented would be things that children enjoy. Who can compete with snails or pizza, nice to have the graphics
ReplyDeleteThis book does a great job of teaching kids how to understand basic mathematical concepts
ReplyDeleteI like that you recognized that the book works with units
ReplyDeletei like this too, mary. good observation!
Deleteprofessor little
nicole,
ReplyDeletegreat post! i love this book. it is one of my favorites. i like that you addressed the concept of units as that is something that relates to our class. the only thing missing is a little conversation on your opinion on using literature to work with math concepts.
professor little