Posted
By: Kenia Perez
Summertime Math
Author: Amy Ayers
Illustrator: Lorin
Walter
Recommended Grade
Level: K-2
Common Core Standard
Addressed:
CCSSMath Content.
K.CC.4 Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect
counting to cardinality.
CCSSMath Content.
K.CC.4a When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order,
pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with
one and only one object.
CCSSMath Content.
K.CC.4b Understand that the last number name said tells the number of
objects counted. The number of objects
is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were
counted.
Common Core Standard
for Mathematical Practice: CCSMP 1- Make sense of numbers and persevere in
solving them.
Summary: This
book is about a little girl visiting the beach in the summer and doing math at
the beach. She tells the many things she
can count at the beach and thinks that math at the beach is fun.
Rating:
I gave this book four stars because the content is very
child friendly. This is an extraordinary
book because it teaching both parents and children that there is not an
specific place to learn and teach math.
Classroom Ideas: This
book can be used in class to teach children cardinality, shapes, and sorting,
composing and decomposing numbers and skip counting. Children could benefit from making numbers at
the time as they are learning about sorting objects by size. In addition struggling students can benefit
from this book it is very colorful and it does not portray of math book crowded
with numbers. The mathematical concept
in this book can be implemented in various ways where children will be able to
learn that there are different ways to make a given number. In addition,
students will benefit from understanding terms such as more, fewer, sandal, shovel
and umbrella. It would definitely
benefit ELLs (English Language Learners) student because the illustrations
makes it easy to understand.