Thanks for highlighting these, math books are my kids' favorite! I'm always haunting the math section of the kids library looking for new ones. "One Grain of Rice" by Demi is a favorite. We've checked out "Perimeter, Area and Volume" multiple times, as well as "Fractions, Decimals and Percents" (both by David A Adler), though those are more overtly mathy! And for my ten-year-old, I always check out the Primes Teen/Tween Book Club book that I get in my emails from the National Museum of Mathematics.
You pointed beautifully to how deeply our early experiences with learning shape not just our skills, but our identity. You showed us how relationships with learning can be rebuilt especially when you bring creativity and connection into the equation.
I love this post! I teach kindergarten, and I have a list of picture books that go with our different math topics. This post gave me a few more to add to the list!
My kids love the Bedtime Math series of books! Their school started an illustrative math curriculum when my oldest was in 1st grade. I haven’t had to help with homework yet and I’m interested to see how learning goes as multiplication and division becomes more prevalent in the next school year.
I felt fine about math until I got into more advanced classes in high school but 10th-12 grade math was pretty stressful and I had to withdraw from one of my stats classes in college.
Love this post. My eldest loves maths and numbers so the subject features prominently in many of our books and those we get out from the library. And can relate to having gone through school performing for tests with no actual understanding -- this was also the case with a lot of science for me which is only just clicking into place as I learn alongside my children. It's actually really exciting. 😆
I love this so much. My child is a math aficionado and one of our recent favorite discoveries was 100 Dragons Named Broccoli by David LaRochelle (who is just excellent in so many ways).
Thanks for highlighting these, math books are my kids' favorite! I'm always haunting the math section of the kids library looking for new ones. "One Grain of Rice" by Demi is a favorite. We've checked out "Perimeter, Area and Volume" multiple times, as well as "Fractions, Decimals and Percents" (both by David A Adler), though those are more overtly mathy! And for my ten-year-old, I always check out the Primes Teen/Tween Book Club book that I get in my emails from the National Museum of Mathematics.
Forever in love with all of Demi’s books!
You pointed beautifully to how deeply our early experiences with learning shape not just our skills, but our identity. You showed us how relationships with learning can be rebuilt especially when you bring creativity and connection into the equation.
Jon and Mac's analysis of Millions of Cats is also SO good. Now I'm wondering if there's a way to do this in chapter book or even middle grade...
This original post encouraged me to check out a "how to understand math" book. Time to re-read it!
I love Math books! This post is so amazing and I loved how you break down how math concepts can be facilitated by reading picture books.
I love this post! I teach kindergarten, and I have a list of picture books that go with our different math topics. This post gave me a few more to add to the list!
I’m very glad!
My kids love the Bedtime Math series of books! Their school started an illustrative math curriculum when my oldest was in 1st grade. I haven’t had to help with homework yet and I’m interested to see how learning goes as multiplication and division becomes more prevalent in the next school year.
I felt fine about math until I got into more advanced classes in high school but 10th-12 grade math was pretty stressful and I had to withdraw from one of my stats classes in college.
Love this post. My eldest loves maths and numbers so the subject features prominently in many of our books and those we get out from the library. And can relate to having gone through school performing for tests with no actual understanding -- this was also the case with a lot of science for me which is only just clicking into place as I learn alongside my children. It's actually really exciting. 😆
I love this so much. My child is a math aficionado and one of our recent favorite discoveries was 100 Dragons Named Broccoli by David LaRochelle (who is just excellent in so many ways).
Octopuses Have Zero Bones is also outstanding!