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A Better Counting Book
A Better Counting Book
“A growing body of research demonstrates that children learn math in very nearly the same ways they learn language.”
“A growing body of research demonstrates that children learn math in very nearly the same ways they learn language.”
Source: Christopher Danielson in "Table Talk Math"
Not all counting books are built the same - some are certainly better than others. Look for books that allow for ambiguity and open thinking. Look for counting books that count both up AND back. Look for counting books that include 0.
Try having your child model quantities in a different way as you read, such as with their fingers.
How Many? by Christopher Danielson
How Many? by Christopher Danielson
In How Many?, there are multiple things to count on each page. Students might count one pair of shoes, or two shoes, or four corners of a shoebox. They might discuss whether two shoes have two shoelaces, or four. They might notice surprising patterns and relationships, and they will want to talk about them.
Click here for a great video produced by Kent Haines that offers guiding principles for "reading" this math book with your student mathematician.
Counting Books by Tana Hoban
Counting Books by Tana Hoban
Hoban beautifully captures math in the world around us via her spectacular photographs that have been featured in the Museum of Modern Art in New York and other galleries around the world.
Books with 0
Books with 0
It’s important to count things, but it is also important to count nothing. Help students develop an understanding of the numeral, 0.
Counting Down Books
Counting Down Books
Often we ask children to count up, but we don’t ask them to count down nearly enough! Look for books that will support the development of the verbal counting sequence going backwards.
A Better Shapes Books
A Better Shapes Books
Beautifully designed, colorful pages in which the question is always the same, but the answer is always driven by children's justifications and arguments. Children develop geometric language over time by supporting their reasoning. As they will quickly discover, any one of the shapes could be the correct answer to the question depending on how they support their thinking.
Hoban's beautiful photographs show us that shapes truly are everywhere in the world around us.
A Better Coloring Book
A Better Coloring Book
Coloring that highlights the beauty and art of mathematics
Puzzle Books
Puzzle Books
Games that are Math-y and Not so Math-y
Games that are Math-y and Not so Math-y
Check out these video tutorials for 15 different games using the Tiny Polka Dot cards!
Check out this website, complete with a video tutorial, and fun ideas to modify and extend the Prime Climb game!
Conversation Starters
Conversation Starters
"How can you help ensure that your children and teens learn to love math? Talk about it! Make it fun and casual and interesting. "
"How can you help ensure that your children and teens learn to love math? Talk about it! Make it fun and casual and interesting. "
Source: John Stevens, author of "Table Talk Math"
Click on each heading to access different visuals that support these routines. Use the suggested questions to launch the conversation.
What's your estimate? What's your reasoning?
What's the same? What's different?
How many are there? How do you see it?
What do you notice? What do you wonder?
Puzzles & Rich Tasks
Puzzles & Rich Tasks
Access them online but work them out with old-fashioned paper and pencil
Grid-based puzzles and so much more! "Through regularly practicing these puzzles, the schoolchildren come to acquire proficiency in basic mathematical operations and logical thinking. "
"The problems that we’ve picked require trying, struggling, failing, adjusting, and trying again until, finally, a discovery is made."
Quite simply: Lots of good problems from lots of good resources. Curated by Peter Liljedahl.
NRICH, a project out of the University of Cambridge, seeks to enrich the experience of the mathematics curriculum for all learners, offer challenging and engaging activities, develop mathematical thinking and problem-solving skills, and show rich mathematics in meaningful contexts.
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