The Ten Black Dots, Donald Crews a book about all the different things you can do with ten black circles Posted by Dilmer Carrasco

The Ten Black Dots
Dilmer Carrasco



Posted by Dilmer Carrasco
Author Donald Crews
Recommended grade level: Kindergarten
CCSSM Standards: KCCA.3 Write numbers from 0 to 20 ( with 0 representing a count of no object).
Standard for Mathematical Practice 1.Student make sense of the problem and preserve in solving them by using pictorials to represent the numbers, students also create different shapes using the dots.

Summary: This book is about ten black dots and the different objects you can create by using the dots. Is one of the  many ways you can introduce counting to  kinder-gardeners. Every dot represents a number and the  different things you can use a dot for. The author starts by counting one dot and basically saying one dot can be the sun and it can also be the moon and he continues until he gets to ten.  Is a good way to have children's remember the numbers because they always going to associate that number to that  particular image.

Rating: This is a very interesting book for kinder-gardeners, is very engaging and color coded.  The book introduces numbers, colors and objects relevant to student age.

Classroom Ideas: One of the activities you can do with this aged group is to invite children to create their own number book using construction paper and crayons.  They can draw the image of their choice but each dot has to correspond to the image.  Once completed  it,  they can put their book together folded it in the shape of a book and then i will have the children explain and share what they did.

MONEY MATH  *Addition and Subtraction*

Posted by JOSE CENAC

Title: Money Math *Addition and Sbtraction*

Author: David Adler; Illustrator: Edward Miller

Recommended Grade Level: 2^nd Grade

Common Core Mathematics Standard:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.C.8
Solve word problems involving dollar bills, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies, using $ and ¢ symbols appropriately. Example: If you have 2 dimes and 3 pennies, how many cents do you have?

 CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.OA.A.1

Use addition and subtraction within 100 to solve one- and two-step word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and  comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using drawings and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice: CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4 Model with mathematics.

Summary: This book is about discovering that there is a lot of math in shopping. It stresses the importance of knowing how to count your money to know how much you can spend. It uses the dollar as the exchange unit of the US monetary system. It is sprinkle with a little bit of US History as it describes to which US President belong the faces printed on the dollar bill, half-dollar, quarter, dime, nickel, and  penny. They correspond to George Washington, John F. Kennedy, George Washington (on the quarter), Franklin D. Roosevelt, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln (on the penny, and the 5-dollar bill as well), respectively. Then, proceeds to provide with colorful illustration the value of each coin and compares them with the dollar. For example: a penny is 1 cent, the total value of 100 pennies is one dollar; a nickel is 5 cents, the total value of 20 nickels is one dollar; a dime is 10 cents, the total value of 10 dimes is one dollar, and so on. It also describe the coins, and dollar signs, as well as the decimal point. Furthermore, invites the young readers to add and subtract dollars and coins to be able buy items at the corner store or the mall.

Rating: ***** I highly recommend this book since it expose the students to adding and subtracting money preparing them to ask questions in daily life transactions when Mom or Dad go to the store to buy groceries, go to the restaurant to eat, or go to the mall to buy clothing, household appliances, etc. The colorful illustrations of dollar bills, half-dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels, and pennies allow the students to easily identify the value of each and the numerous combinations than take placed compare to a dollar.

Classroom Ideas: Students can create their own book about a real-life visit to the bodega, supermarket, clothing store, candy store and express the transactions of buying and getting money back. They can work as a team so they can construct their books with illustrations and the operations of adding and subtracting money during the shopping experience. Students can pretend buying and selling different types of school supplies such as books, notebooks, pens, pencils, erasers using fake dollar bills and coins as manipulatives during classroom activities. Students can have a piggy bank in where they can put money collected from the teacher due to good behavior, being on task, completed homework, citizenship, team work, etc. Each student will count his/her money accumulated during the day and be ready to subtract any penalty that he/she incurred if they break any classroom rules. Students could also use addition and subtraction to buy gifts to peers in show of appreciation.

Wednesday Oct. 3, 2018

Name of book:

How Much Is a Million?


Author: David Schwartz
Illustrated by Steven Kellogg
Recommended Grade Level: 4th

CCSSM 4.NBT.A.2
Read and write multi-digit whole numbers using base-ten numerals, number names, and expanded form. Compare two multi-digit numbers based on meanings of the digits in each place, using >, =, and < symbols to record the results of comparisons.

Standards for Mathematical Practice 2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively

Summary:
This book is about the various ways that students can conceptualize the size of multi-digit whole numbers. The wizard in the story takes kids on a journey of the ways to explore numbers in the millions, billions, and trillions.

Rating:
This book shows a creative way for students to see the different numbers we interact with and how the numbers are relevant to everyday use. Most students conceptualize millions as a monetary value and this book shows a different way to see numbers in our lives. It is a fascinating read and I recommend it to any teacher in the fourth grade when they are introducing place value.

Classroom Ideas:
This book can be used in many ways. It can be used as an anchor text to help students understand large numbers. It can be used in a center along with other books on place value. It can also be used to inspire math journaling.

One Hundred Hungry Ants By Tiffany Altamirano

Author: Elinor J. Pinczes

Illustrator: Bonnie Mackain
Recommended Grade Level: 3rd Grade
CCSSM Content Standards:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.3.OA.A.2
Interpret whole-number quotients of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 56 ÷ 8 as the number of objects in each share when 56 objects are partitioned equally into 8 shares, or as a number of shares when 56 objects are partitioned into equal shares of 8 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a number of shares or a number of groups can be expressed as 56 ÷ 8.

Standards for Mathematical Practice: CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively

Summary- 100 hungry ants are on their way to a picnic in a straight line and decide to break up into smaller lines along the way in order to arrive faster to the picnic. They decide to shorten their lines four times before they finally arrive at the picnic and realize all the food is gone while they wasted time breaking up into shorter lines.

Rating-***** this is a great book to look at multiplication or division for third graders because the book breaks down the number 100 various ways. It is very interesting and has a rhyme scheme to it that grabs readers and the ending is unexpected and a great way to open up discussion.

Classroom Ideas/Lesson Ideas: 

Students can be asked to explain how the ants separated and communicate their reasoning by using clear language. After going through each row the ants made we can take it a step further and ask them how to organize the 100 ants into different number of rows such as 11, etc.

Teddy Bear Subtraction

                      

                     Teddy Bear Subtraction by Barbara Barbieri McGrath

Illustrated by Tim Nihoff

 Recommended Grade Level: K-2

Common Core Standards Addressed:

      CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.C.5
Relate counting to addition and subtraction (e.g., by counting on 2 to add 2).

      CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.C.6
Add and subtract within 20, demonstrating fluency for addition and subtraction within 10. Use strategies such as counting on; making ten (e.g., 8 + 6 = 8 + 2 + 4 = 10 + 4 = 14); decomposing a number leading to a ten (e.g., 13 - 4 = 13 - 3 - 1 = 10 - 1 = 9); using the relationship between addition and subtraction (e.g., knowing that 8 + 4 = 12, one knows 12 - 8 = 4); and creating equivalent but easier or known sums (e.g., adding 6 + 7 by creating the known equivalent 6 + 6 + 1 = 12 + 1 = 13).

Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice: Standard for Mathematical Practice 3: Construct viable arguments and critique the reasoning of others.   

Summary:

     This children’s literature book is about how to subtract and the use of big bears of various colors to sort, count, and subtract single to double digit numbers. The story has a lively rhyme and hands-on interaction with the use of visuals to sort and set subtraction to addition and greater than less than problems as well with the use of colorful bears.

Rating:

            3.5/5 Stars***1/2

                       

            This book is simply great for visual learners and for kindergarten to second grade students who are introducing themselves to subtraction and with the use of colorful teddy bears teaching them how to sort, set, subtract colorful bears, it is fun and engaging for elementary schoolchildren.

Classroom Ideas:

            This book is great for teachers to read the book to students and choosing appropriate worksheets to reinforce concepts that were introduced by reading the book - such as shapes, sorting, patterns or graphing.

                       

           

The Greedy Triangle by Jeremy Perez

 

Title: The Greedy Triangle
Author: Marilyn Burns

Illustrator: Gordon Silveria
Recommended Grade Level: PreK-2^nd

CCSSM Content Standards:

CCSS.Math.Content.2.G.A.1
Recognize and draw shapes having specified attributes, such as a given number of angles or a given number of equal faces.¹ Identify triangles, quadrilaterals, pentagons, hexagons, and cubes.

CCSSM Mathematical Practice:

CCSS.Math.Practice.MP5 Use appropriate tools strategically. Mathematically proficient students consider the available tools when solving a mathematical problem. These tools might include pencil and paper, concrete models, a ruler, a protractor, a calculator, a spreadsheet, a computer algebra system, a statistical package, or dynamic geometry software.SM Standard for

Summary: There once was a triangle who grew tired of his shape, angles and sides. He decided he wanted to be made into a new shape so he went to the shapeshifter who kept making him into all kinds of new shapes and sides. What once was a triangle has now become a decagon who could no longer recognize himself because of how greedy he was.

Rating: *****
I give this book five stars because it is a colorful child friendly book, which illustrates everyday items and taps into a child’s experience to explain different types of polygons. It starts with a simple triangle and increases by one angle and side to continue to teach and give examples of each shape.

Classroom Ideas/Lesson Ideas: I plan to use this book to introduce polygons starting with triangles. I will introduce the total number of sides and angles it has. From there I will discuss each new polygon as I increase each shape by a side and an angle. The students will then be able to learn about triangles, quadrilateral, pentagon, hexagon, heptagon, octagon, nonagon, and decagon.