- Five Silly Monkeys is a story about monkey who jump on the bed. It is dangerous jumping on the bed and so one monkey falls off and bumps his head. The mom calls the doctor and the doctors says, “No more monkeys jumping on the bed!`” This plot continues until all the silly monkeys have fallen off the bed.
2. The story Five Silly Monkeys can be looked at with a mathematical eye. The relationship between monkey jumping occurrences is a linear function of monkeys left on the bed. It represents a linear decay because every monkey jumping occurrence takes away one monkey until their are none left jumping. This can be represented by the slope equation: Y=-1x+5. -1 is the slope because the number of monkeys goes down by one at the occurences go up by one making it negative. 5 would be the Y intercept because at 0 occurrences there are 5 monkeys.
3. It is important to teach children math through the use of children's books because it starts imagination and inventive thinking young. Giving kids numbers in stories allow them to pick up on number order. Even though it is simple math they are still learning that every time the monkeys jump another one will fall. They are learning to look out for patterns.
My mom read this to me when I was a child. Loved reading this post!
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ReplyDeletei laughed when i read this post because i used to read this story to my preschool students! it made me laugh because it's such a cute simple story. you did a great job of using something basic and relating it to complex concepts in our class. good job of show the formula that would work for the jumping monkeys!
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