Summertime Math
Posted By: Kenia Perez
Summertime Math
Author: Amy Ayers
Illustrator: Lorin Walter
Recommended Grade Level: Kindergarten and up
Common Core Standard Addressed:
CCSSMath Content. K.CC.3 Write numbers 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a wrriten numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).
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.
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 a 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. The mathematical concept in this book can be implemented in various ways where children will be able to learn that there different ways to make a giving number.
I never had the chance to read this book, seems like it's a good book that and fun to have children interact in the counting as the book is being read. Also good that many math concepts can be learned through it.
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