1.The book I read was Lemonade for Sale by Bettina Ling. Pretty average photos are used to tell a simple story of a girl named Kate. Kate needs to make twenty dollars to buy her dad’s birthday present. With help from friends she comes up with the idea to sell lemonade. Kate and her friends sell lemonade. The first day is a success they sell 7 dollars of lemonade with a price of 50 cents a cup. Then, her little brother knocks over the lemonade. She is forced to start over so the second day she sells cookies two dollars worth with a unspecified price per cookie. The third day it rained hard so no cookies or lemonade were sold. Then the forth day when all seemed loss, a tree trimmer bought both juggs and cookies. In all Kate ended with 24 dollars and was able to buy her dad a toolbox and her friends some ice-cream.
2. One of the mathematical concepts that can be used to better understand the book is a simple line graph. The line graph that I constructed involved money earned on the 4 days of the story. On the first day she earned 7 dollars. On the second the book says she earned 2 dollars off cookies but doesn't specify any money made off of lemonade. On the third day she made no money. On the forth she ended up with 24 dollars. Because she had to keep going back to buy more lemonade and products for her stand I decided that the nine dollars that she began the story with before selling any lemonade had been spent and so adding up the days that she did work Day one and two she earned 9 dollars therefore on day four she must have earned 15 dollars to make what she ended up with 24 dollars. If more information was provided the graph could be a bit more accurate but using the information provided in the book I constructed a simple line graph.
3. For people like myself numbers and equations by themselves are confusing. Therefore adding some literature and making problems word problems helps me comprehend what is going on. I think its important for children to learn basic math at a young age in order to have a foundation to build on later on. Kids love children books so they are a perfect way to reach out and teach young people about math.
I liked the story you picked, its really relatable since I think every young kid attempts a lemonade sale at one point or another. Although when I was young I never realized how much math really went into making a lemonade sale. I agree literature makes math a lot easier to understand especially for young kids.
ReplyDeleteGabe, I like your explanation for the graphs. A line graph would be the easiest way to show how a business is working. Numbers are confusing for me to man.
ReplyDeleteI also read this story, I think it's such a good example of learning through literature! I love that you decided to make a line graph, I think that's so creative. I agree, literature makes learning math a little easier for kids!
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ReplyDeletegood job of explaining the concepts in this story. i really like that you did a little extra work and graphed the information from the text to show other ways of how to interpret the concepts in the book. i like your last paragraph, too. it is spot on!
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