Children's Literature in the Mathematics Classroom
Greetings. The following materials are intended to provide an introduction to children's literature in the mathematics classroom. They were assembled from the World Wide Web, ERIC Database, and a variety of other bibliographic resources. Instructions for acquiring the full text of the ERIC records are presented at the end of this file.
Kyong-Jee Kim
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Alphabetically arranged listing of bibliographies
Categorically arranged listing of bibliographies
Internet Sites
Using Children's Literature in Math and Science
Children's Literature Books for Mathematics
Math and Children's Literature
Children's Literature in Mathematics Instruction
Resources in Children's Literature and Mathematics
Children's Suggested Books that Relate to Mathematics
Citations from the ERIC Database
AN: ED441694
AU: Barber,-Jacqueline; Beals,-Kevin; Bergman,-Lincoln
TI: Math on the Menu: Real-Life Problem Solving For Grades 3-5. Teacher's Guide.
PY: 2000
AV: GEMS Revisions, Lawrence Hall of Science, Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-5200 (Item No. GEM525, $16). Tel: 510-642-7771; Fax: 510-643-0309; e-mail: gems@uclink4.berkeley.edu; Web site: http://www.lhs.berkeley. edu/GEMS.
NT: Also supported by: the McDonnell-Douglas Foundation and the McDonnell-Douglas Employee's Community Fund; Employees Community Fund of Boeing California and the Boeing Cor p.; the Hewlett Packard Co.; Chevron USA; the William K. Holt Foundation; Join Hands; the Health and Safety Alliance; the Microscopy Society of America (MSA); the Shell Oil Company Foundation; the Crail-Johnson Foundation.
PR: Document Not Available from EDRS.
DE: *Integrated-Activities; *Problem-Solving; *Relevance-Education
DE: Childrens-Literature; Cooperative-Learning; Elementary-Education; Grade-3; Grade-4; Grade-5; Mathematics-Instruction
AB: There is plenty of "math on the menu" in the series of activities featured in this book. Students help the Rosada family start a Mexican restaurant featuring a variety of tostadas. Over the course of the unit, students apply different problem-solving strategies as they plan and expand the menu, determine different combinations of ingredients, analyze costs, set prices, and arrange tables and chairs in a new location. The activities build on one another, and children have the opportunity to use a wide variety of problem solving skills. Emphasis is placed on cooperative learning, language arts, and literature connections while the activities put mathematics learning in a real-world, multicultural context. (ASK)
AN: EJ602308
AU: Wickett,-Maryann-S.
TI: Amanda Bean and the Gator Girls: Writing and Solving Multiplication Stories.
PY: 2000 SO: Teaching-Children-Mathematics; v6 n5 p282-85,303 Jan 2000
DE: *Childrens-Literature; *Mathematics-Activities; *Multiplication-
DE: Arithmetic-; Elementary-Education; Elementary-School-Mathematics; Mathematics-Instruction
AB: Having children create and solve their own story problems is a valuable activity to use for them to think carefully about and apply a concept to create and solve a problem. Describes using two books to help children learn about the concept of multiplication. (ASK)
AN: ED438537
AU: Whitin,-Phyllis; Whitin,-David-J.
TI: Math Is Language Too: Talking and Writing in the Mathematics Classroom.
CS: National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL.; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc., Reston, VA.
PY: 2000
AV: National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096 (Stock No. 21349: $14.95 members, $19.95 nonmembers). Tel: 800-369-6283 (Toll Free); Web site: http://www.ncte.org.
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC09 Plus Postage. DL: http://orders.edrs.com/members/sp.cfm?AN=ED438537
DE: *Classroom-Environment; *Language-Role; *Mathematics-; *Mathematics-Instruction
DE: Childrens-Literature; Concept-Formation; Grade-4; Intermediate-Grades; Journal-Writing; Learning-Activities; Mathematics-Activities; Mathematics-Skills; Thinking-Skills
AB: This book explores the ways in which fourth-grade students use story, metaphor, and language to develop mathematical thinking skills and strategies. Replete with children's stories and illustrations, the book looks at children as sense-makers, storytellers, language creators, and problem-posers. It focuses on how to create a classroom community with "no put-downs" as the first rule. The book offers ideas on using children's literature to inspire mathematical investigations and to teach mathematical concepts. Included are classroom-tested, hands-on activities in geometry and algorithms as well as directions on making tools for use in the classroom. Specifically, it gives guidelines for journal writing with sample prompts, activities that promote the understanding of mathematical vocabulary through child-generated metaphors, examples of building models about mathematical ideas, responses to children's literature, and strategies to build understanding of basic operations. The book cuts across subject-matter boundaries to offer not only practical insights but also reflective commentary on the ways in which young students learn and build both conceptual and abstract thinking. (Contains a 40-item bibliography.) (NKA)
AN: EJ592803
AU: McDonald,-Jacqueline
TI: Graphs and Prediction: Helping Children Connect Mathematics and Literature.
PY: 1999 SO: Reading-Teacher; v53 n1 p25-29 Sep 1999
DE: *Graphs-; *Mathematics-Instruction; *Reading-Instruction
DE: Childrens-Literature; Class-Activities; Elementary-Education; Literature-Appreciation; Reading-Strategies
AB: Describes class activities that combine reading-prediction strategies with various graphs that quantify and make visual representations of those predictions, strengthening both reading and mathematical knowledge. Describes learning about whole numbers (picto/bar graphs), multiples (bar graphs), fractions (pie graphs), and percents (pie graphs). (SR)
AN: EJ592089
AU: Urso,-Josephine
TI: What Do You Like To Read?
PY: 1999 SO: Teaching-Children-Mathematics; v6 n1 p34-37 Sep 1999
DE: *Childrens-Literature; *Graphs-; *Mathematics-Activities; *Mathematics-Instruction; *Statistics-; *Student-Interests
DE: Charts-; Elementary-Education; Elementary-School-Mathematics; Tables-Data
AB: Uses student reading interests as a context for data collection, and asks them to represent their findings in different ways using tables, bar graphs, pictographs, and pie graphs. (ASK)
AN: EJ586739
AU: Harris,-Jacqueline
TI: Interweaving Language and Mathematics Literacy through a Story.
PY: 1999 SO: Teaching-Children-Mathematics; v5 n9 p520-24 May 1999
DE: *Childrens-Literature; *Integrated-Activities; *Number-Concepts
DE: Elementary-Education; Elementary-School-Mathematics; Interdisciplinary-Approach; Language-; Mathematics-Activities; Mathematics-Instruction
AB: Describes young students' development of mathematical understanding as they dramatize, read, write, and draw about mathematics after reading the story "Benny's Pennies." (ASK)
AN: EJ586282
AU: Murphy,-Stuart-J.
TI: Learning Math through Stories.
PY: 1999 SO: School-Library-Journal; v45 n3 p122-123 Mar 1999
DE: *Childrens-Literature; *Elementary-School-Mathematics; *Mathematical-Concepts; *Relevance-Education
DE: Elementary-Education; Learning-Activities; Learning-Resources-Centers; Learning-Strategies; Picture-Books; School-Libraries; Visual-Learning
AB: Discusses how to use stories to help children connect mathematical ideas to their own lives. Gives examples of picture books and other children's books that present math ideas, suggests the use of visual learning and real-life applications, and explains how to adapt ideas to library media center activities. (LRW)
AN: ED431527
AU: Cohen,-Linda
TI: The Integration of Whole Language and Mathematical Concepts.
PY: 1999
PR: EDRS Price MF01/PC01 Plus Postage. DL: http://orders.edrs.com/members/sp.cfm?AN=ED431527
DE: *Classroom-Techniques; *Kindergarten-Children; *Mathematics-Instruction; *Whole-Language-Approach
DE: Childrens-Literature; Integrated-Curriculum; Kindergarten-; Language-Skills; Mathematical-Concepts; Primary-Education
AB: This paper examines whole language and mathematical concepts implemented to incorporate reading, writing and oral-language concepts into mathematical lessons in early childhood education. After discussing the theoretical background and anecdotal observations of the use of whole language to improve math skills, the paper describes a mini study in which whole language was used in kindergarten math lessons. One class used whole-language concepts while the other class did not. Observations showed that when literature was integrated into math lessons, the children became more active learners and the teacher did not need to constantly refocus and motivate them. By being allowed to discuss and relate the concepts to their own lives, the children were able to grasp and retain new information and incorporate it into existing schemas. The experimental group was far happier and gained more language and math vocabulary than the control group. Contains 14 references. (JPB
AN: EJ584689
AU: Lawrence,-Ann
TI: From "The Giver" to "The Twenty-One Balloons": Explorations with Probability.
PY: 1999 SO: Mathematics-Teaching-in-the-Middle-School; v4 n8 p504-09 May 1999
DE: *Childrens-Literature; *Integrated-Activities; *Mathematics-Instruction; *Probability-
DE: Elementary-Education; Elementary-School-Mathematics; Junior-High-Schools; Middle-Schools
AB: Utilizes problems from children's literature to guide mathematics lessons on probability. (ASK)
AN: EJ584586
AU: Wickett,-Maryann-S.
TI: Measuring Up with The Principal's New Clothes.
PY: 1999 SO: Teaching-Children-Mathematics; v5 n8 p476-79 Apr 1999
DE: *Childrens-Literature; *Mathematics-Instruction; *Measurement-; *Number-Concepts
DE: Elementary-Education; Elementary-School-Mathematics; Grade-4; Integrated-Activities
AB: Describes a fourth-grade class' exploration involving measurement of body parts that developed from a work of children's literature. (ASK)
AN: EJ584394
AU: Hinnant,-Hilari-A.
TI: Growing Gardens and Mathematicians: More Books and Math for Young Children.
PY: 1999 SO: Young-Children; v54 n2 p23-26 Mar 1999
DE: *Elementary-School-Mathematics; *Mathematics-Activities
DE: Books-; Childrens-Literature; Class-Activities; Learning-Activities; Outdoor-Education; Primary-Education; Student-Projects
AB: Describes the use of Lois Ehlert's 1991 book "Planting a Rainbow" as the basis for a mathematics project involving gardening for primary students. Delineates gardening-activity suggestions related to mental math, numbers and operation, measurement, geometry and spatial awareness, time and money, patterns and relationships, and statistics and probability. Includes suggestions for other books for math-using gardening projects. (KB)
AN: EJ584448
AU: Benson,-Tammy-R.; Downing,-Jan-E.
TI: Rejuvenate Math and Science--Revisit Children's Literature.
PY: 1999 SO: Dimensions-of-Early-Childhood; v27 n2 p9-15 Spr 1999
DE: *Childrens-Literature; *Integrated-Curriculum; *Mathematics-Activities; *Science-Activities
DE: Books-; Class-Activities; Early-Childhood-Education; Learning-Activities; Preschool-Curriculum; Student-Projects
AB: Presents suggestions for integrating children's literature with mathematics and science activities for early-childhood settings. Delineates project topics and curriculum ideas for coordination with six children's books. Includes list of 39 books appropriate for young children and related to mathematics and science. (KB)
AN: EJ584583
AU: Wickett,-Maryann-S.
TI: Saturday Sancocho: A Tasty Introduction to Barter and Division.
PY: 1998 SO: Teaching-Children-Mathematics; v5 n4 p246-49 Dec 1998
DE: *Division-; *Mathematics-Instruction
DE: Arithmetic-; Childrens-Literature; Elementary-School-Mathematics; Grade-3; Integrated-Activities; Primary-Education
AB: Integrates a children's book into mathematics instruction, which provides the context for a third-grade lesson involving division, money, and bartering. (ASK)
AN: EJ565694
AU: Harris,-Jacqueline
TI: Using Literature To Investigate Transformations.
PY: 1998 SO: Teaching-Children-Mathematics; v4 n9 p510-13 May 1998
DE: *Integrated-Activities; *Mathematics-Instruction; *Transformations-Mathematics
DE: Childrens-Literature; Elementary-School-Mathematics; Problem-Solving; Relevance-Education
AB: Presents an activity on transformations that employs a story from children's literature. Emphasizes that books and stories that use mathematical problem solving not only engage children in the narrative but also give them opportunities to see how mathematics is used in everyday life. (ASK)
AN: ED419691
AU: Thiessen,-Diane; Matthias,-Margaret; Smith,-Jacquelin
TI: The Wonderful World of Mathemati
CS: A Critically Annotated List of Children's Books in Mathematics. Second Edition.
CS: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc., Reston, VA.
PY: 1998
AV: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 1906 Association Drive, Reston, VA 20191-1593 ($17.95).
NT: Illustrated by Bill Firestone.
PR: EDRS Price MF01 Plus Postage. PC Not Available from EDRS.
DE: *Childrens-Literature; *Educational-Resources; *Geometry-; *Mathematics-Education; *Measurement-; *Number-Concepts
DE: Elementary-Secondary-Education; Integrated-Activities; Interdisciplinary-Approach; Spatial-Ability
AB: Children's literature in mathematics has been a valuable tool for developing positive attitudes toward mathematics as well as for exploring mathematics. This book provides annotated bibliographies of children's literature books emphasizing mathematics education. Each review describes the book's content and accuracy, its illustrations and their appropriateness, the author's writing style, and indicates whether activities for the reader are included. Chapters in this book inclu
DE: (1) "Early Number Concepts"; (2) "Number-Extensions and Connections"; (3) "Measurement"; (4) "Geometry and Spatial Sense"; and (5) "Series and Other Resources". (ASK)
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Other Resources (available either for sale or via interlibrary loan)
Title: Teaching mathematics through children's literature.
Author: Spencer, Sedonia A.
Year: 2001
Publisher: Celebration Press.
Title: Math links: Teaching the NCTM 2000 standards through children's literature.
Author: Evans, Caroline W.; Leija, Anne J.; Falkner, Trina R.
Year: 2000
Publisher: Teacher Ideas Press.
Title: You can count on Mother Goose: A family activity guide introducing mathematics through great children's literature.
Author: Stetson, Charlotte.
Year: 2000
Publisher: Vermont Center for the Book.
Title: Math and me series: A math through literature series.
Author: Clyne, Margaret.; Griffiths, Rachel.
Place: Parsipanny, NJ.
Year: 1999
Publisher: Celebration Press.
Title: Math & stories.
Author: Bartch, Marian R.
Year: 1997
Publisher: Teachers College Press.
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