Monday Math Literature Volume 49

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This week, I desire to portion alongside you lot a slice of literature that I never had regard nearly using for math class. The wise ladies who wrote graphing from the 3-5 mass here!

Here is the entire collection (I stimulate got in addition to dearest all of them!)

The mass I desire to portion alongside you lot today is The Napping House

This is a mass that many teachers already stimulate got inwards their math literature collection. If you lot stimulate got non read it, it is a funny storey nearly a mouse, a cat, a dog, a kid in addition to a granny taking a nap on a bed when a wakeful flea comes along bites the mouse who wakes the truthful cat in addition to you lot tin estimate what happens from there! It is a slap-up read aloud in addition to real engaging for students. But where is the math?

The math is hiding inwards the house. When I finished reading the story, I asked students to assistance me uncovering out how many feet alive inwards the house. We worked together to figure out unlike ways to seek out this. (I forgot to accept a picture!) Some kids wanted to describe each brute in addition to others wanted to brand a list. Several students fifty-fifty suggested writing an equation. Once nosotros figured out that at that spot were eighteen feet inwards the house, I gave each educatee an origami family in addition to had them figure out how many feet lived inwards their house. We had a quick intelligence nearly drawing a sketch versus drawing a detailed picture. I made the origami houses ahead of time, exactly they are unproblematic plenty to brand alongside kids equally well. Here is a video that shows you lot how!

One students drawing of who/what lives inwards their house.

Most kids chose to describe the people in addition to animals living inwards their house. Then, I asked them to unopen their family in addition to write the publish of feet living inwards their family on the door. Then nosotros skillful ordering numbers by putting the houses inwards guild on the tabular array from the smallest publish of feet to the most. I did this lesson alongside a smaller summertime intervention grouping exactly had I done it alongside a total class, I mightiness stimulate got asked them to agree their family inwards front end of them in addition to line of piece of employment up.

Now for the actually fun part! I chose the family alongside an 8 on it in addition to asked kids to intend nearly who could alive inwards a family alongside 8 feet. We brainstormed a listing of several ideas equally a whole group. At this point, 1 kid

(who loves to write) suggested nosotros write the names of the people living inwards the family in addition to how many feet they stimulate got instead of drawing them. Other kids actually wanted to stick alongside drawing all the feet inwards the house.

After doing this equally a whole group, I sent kids out to locomote on their own. I gave them each 1 of the papers I was using for recording, had them direct whatever publish they wanted for the publish of feet on the family in addition to larn to locomote figuring out unlike ways that you lot tin stand upwardly for that publish of feet.

This educatee is writing the refer of the people or brute that alive inwards the family in addition to the publish of feet they have. Notice they wrote a xiv on the family inwards the middle of the page. You tin direct handgrip of this tape sail here!

This educatee is working on 10 feet inwards the family in addition to is using sketches in addition to equations to tape her thinking.

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The best utilization nearly this lesson is that it is in addition to therefore slow to differentiate. You tin utilization other books inwards house of the Napping House likewise similar Best Friends Sleep Over

, Winter Days inwards the Big Woods

or Clifford's Family

. Any mass that has people or animals inwards a family would locomote good for this lesson.

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