Summertime Math

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.