Ten Times Better tells the story of animals with a
mathematical relationship. Animals are described taking readers into an
investigation of “ten times” in the world around us. A sloth has three toes,
and a centipede has thirty. Can you make a relationship using these two
numbers?
The Best of Times by Greg Tang takes
readers on a journey stretching their minds beyond memorization of
multiplication tables. This piece of
children’s literature can prompt great discussion as students invent strategies
to use the multiplication tables they know to learn other multiplication tables
too!
One Hundred Hungry
Ants
by Elinor J. Pinczes tells the story of ants that are too hungry to simply
travel in one row. This story prompts a great discussion into real world
application of factors and the relationship between multiplication and division
as the ants must hurry to separate into rows to quickly get to their food.
The Grapes of Math by Greg Tang takes
readers of a math adventure to investigate riddles and problems to solve! This
engaging piece of children’s literature prompts great discussion of student
strategies invented to solve the riddles in their own way!
Elinor
J. Pinczes takes readers on yet another journal of mathematical relationships.
This time the ants are marching, one ant, a remainder of one, seems to always
be left out of a line in which to march. This story prompts great discussion of
the relationship between multiplication and division and interpreting
remainders.
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