Kitten Castle

Math Matters®

by Mel Friedman, Ellen Weiss

Discover Math Matters! With over 15 million books sold worldwide, this award-winning series of easy-to-read books will help young readers ages 5–8 approach math with enthusiasm. Great for fans of MathStart or Step into Reading Math.

Four newborn kittens are creating havoc at Anna's house. How can she convince her Dad to let her keep them? Will a "kitten castle" be the answer?

With engaging stories that connect math to kids’ everyday lives, each book in the Teachers’ Choice Award–winning Math Matters series focuses on a single concept and reinforces math vocabulary and skills. Bonus activities in the back of each book feature math and reading comprehension questions, and even more free activities online add to the fun! (Math Geometry/3D shapes)

Genres: Picture Books, Mathematics

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Ashley Wampler · Rating 3 out of 5]

Anna's cat has four kittens and she wants to keep all of them! However, they begin to make mischief all over the house and her father wants to get rid of them. Anna decides to make them a kitten castle to play in, so that they stay out of the way. When her father returns home from a business trip, he loves the castle because it occupies the kittens and he decides that they can stay. This book could be used for a math unit, because it discusses various types of shapes when she is building the castle.

[Sung Baick · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a cute story with colorful pictures that are filled with all different types of shapes. It's actually a math connections book so I would definitely use it for math - teaching about the different shapes. There is also a shapes chart at the end of the book that charts how many sides, corners, etc each shape has. I would use this for pre-k through 1st grade.