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Resource offers twelve math lessons followed by two extension activities based on a book designed to help students make mathematical connections through children's literature. Titles used: Bread and Jam for Frances (collecting, communicating, and interpreting data); 12 Ways to Get to 11 (writing addition equations); Ten Sly Piranhas (writing subtraction equations); Fortunately (exploring, extending, and transforming patterns); Arthur's Funny Money (solving money problems); A Three Hat Day (using organized thinking); From One to One Hundred (representing numbers 1 to 100); The Line Up Book (using ten as a measuring tool); Inch by Inch (extending measuring skills); What Comes in 2's, 3's, and 4's? (exploring multiplication); Changes, Changes (exploring faces of solid shapes); and Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs (exploring probability). Many of the activities use manipulatives. | |