Title and Author: The Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar Fractions Book by Jerry Pallotta
Recommended Age Range: 1st grade to 4th grade
Concepts Explored: Fractions
Description: This book teaches children about fractions and fraction operations using a chocolate bar as a manipulative. It helps children understand the concept of a fraction, the relationship between equivalent fractions, and how to add and subtract fractions. This is an excellent book to introduce children to fractions. The chocolate bar is a fun representation of fractions and the author explains the material in an understandable manner. Sweet!
Corresponding Lesson Ideas: Provide each of your students with a chocolate bar and instruct them to break their chocolate bars into equal pieces to represent fractions as demonstrated in the book. As an alternative to real chocolate bars, you can cut pieces of brown construction paper into twelve equal pieces and have students represent fractions with their paper chocolate bars.
Title and Author: How Much Is A Million? by David M. Shwartz
Recommended Age Range: Kindergarten to 3rd grade
Concepts Explored: Quantities
Description: This book helps children understand the relationship between numbers and quantities. It answers burning questions such as, "How long would it take to count from one to one billion?" and "How large would a fish tank have to be in order to hold one million fish?", to put the quantities of large numbers into perspective. This book is an excellent visualization of one million, one billion, and even one trillion. Each page is filled with interesting facts that students and their teachers will find intriguing. It is the perfect book for curious children and adults alike.
Corresponding Lesson Ideas: Assist your students in researching other quantities that amount to one million, one billion, and one trillion (ex. How large would a swimming pool have to be in order to hold one million gallons of water? How long would it take to walk one billion miles? etc.)
Title and Author: Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy
Recommended Age Range: 1st grade to 3rd grade
Concepts Explored: Measurement
Description: This is an excellent book to introduce children to measurement. It teaches children about the standard and nonstandard units of measurement, including height, volume, and weight. Children will love the charming plot about a girl who measures her dog for an assignment using standard measuring tools as well as household items such as dog biscuits and paper clips. After reading this book, your students will be inspired to measure items (or animals) in their own homes using different measuring tools.
Corresponding Lesson Ideas: The main character of the book is assigned to measure an item at home using standard and nonstandard units of measurement. Assign the same assignment to your students and instruct them to measure items at home or in the classroom using different measuring tools and to record their measurements to report to the class. To extend the assignment, you can ask students to predict the size of the item before measuring it.
Title and Author: Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
Recommended Age Range: Kindergarten to 4th grade
Concepts Explored: Various
Description: This book, which is about a girl whose life becomes a living math problem, has got it all, from the basic operations to fractions to measurement. It is the perfect tool for teaching a range of math concepts. This is an excellent book to help children understand how math is used outside of the classroom and it inspires children to connect math to their lives. In addition, it engages children, encouraging them to solve the math problems that the main character encounters throughout the book.
Corresponding Lesson Ideas: Encourage your students to brainstorm how math is used outside of the classroom and instruct them to write word problems about their experiences with math in their lives.
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