1. I sat and contemplated which children's story my mom read to me, when I was younger, that would apply to this blog. However, I was hard pressed to come up with one so I decided to use the example you provided for us called "Lemonade for Sale" by Stuart J Murphy. This is a story about a group of young children who need to raise money for a club house that needs to be repaired. So as a means of money they decide to create a lemonade stand and sell as much lemonade as possible. On the 4th day they had a lack of sales due to a street performer who was taking all the attention away from their stand. But then they had a good idea which was to bring the street performer to their stand and their sales sky rocketed! Overall, they raised enough money to fix there club house.
2. There are many mathematical aspects which reside in this childrens book. For instance they used a graph in the book in order to calculate how much money they saved up and earned. Furthermore, by doing this, they were able to observe the increase in salary which they were earning. The first few days their growth was exponential because their popularity was rising. This was a relationship between product and consumer. And on the final day, their sales went through the roof because they had the wits to combine two very successful ventures into one. (although this is more of a buissnes move then a mathematical one) Overall, the various forms of math used in this book was graphing, exponential growth and well as simple concepts like addition, subtraction and prediction which was used to account for the money needed to repair their club house.
3. Literature is an extremely effective way to teach math concepts because children dont like to do math typically and by encorporating an interesting story line, it draws them in and helps them to learn about these ideas. Also, pictorial references allows children to combine auditorial and visual learning into one which is very helpful because science shows that multiple ways to learn is a lot better for memorizing and understanding than simply one form.
I think you did a really good job of explaining the mathematical concept of your book! I also think you're right that literature is an extremely effective way to teach math concepts especially to children.
ReplyDeleteI think you did a good job of explaining how some students who struggle with numbers can easily learn from they literature-style work to make them think more abstractly and develop these types of concepts.
ReplyDeleteI did this book as well. You did a great job of connecting it to the mathematical concept and I like how you mentioned the visual benefit of learning mathematical concepts through literature. Great job!
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ReplyDeletegood book selection. you are spot on in saying that literature effectively combines auditory and visual learning into one. i wouldn't say that the growth in this book is exponential, but i would use just words like increase and decrease. all in all, a good post.
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