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Welcome
to Mrs. Wayman's Math Support and Resources!
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If
kids can't learn the way I teach, I must teach the
way they learn! |
Though many children's books are explicitly
about mathematics, such as books about counting or shapes,
other books have mathematics embedded within a larger context.
These books are generally not perceived as "math books,"
but mathematics appears as a natural element within stories,
problems, personal vignettes, or cultural events. Welchman-Tischler
(1992) has classified the ways to use such books as follows:
1. To provide a context or model for an activity with mathematical
content.
2. To introduce manipulative's that will be used in varied
ways (not necessarily as in the story).
3. To inspire a creative mathematics experience for children.
4. To pose an interesting problem.
5. To prepare for a mathematics concept or skill.
6. To develop or explain a mathematics concept or skill.
7. To review a mathematics concept or skill.
Though any given book could likely be used in multiple ways,
the common element in these various approaches is the intent
to use literature to provide vicarious mathematical experiences
based on real problems or situations of interest to teachers
and students. .
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Mukilteo
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