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How Did You Count?: Picture Book
From the author of the award-winning Which One Doesn’t Belong? and How Many? comes How Did You Count?, the latest title in Christopher Danielson’s collection that is sure to spark conversation, questioning and wondering amongst both younger and older students alike.
This listing is for a hard cover copy of the children's picture book.
This listing is for a hard cover copy of the children's picture book.
36 pages, Hardcover
Published April 18, 2025
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January 7, 2025
Another pair of gems from Christopher Danielson! Full of deep provocations to mathematical thinking, and guidance to where that thinking can go. An incredibly useful resource for anyone interested in deepening young people’s mathematical thinking and discussion.
For a book of ostensibly simple pictures of groups of familiar objects, How Did You Count? is full of unexpected complexities. And by design; Danielson has carefully curated an exhibition of images of numbers of everyday things that are invite different ways of counting at different degrees of sophistication. Perfect for in-class number discussions, and for sharing one-to-one.
The Teacher Guide gives us a valuable guided tour of the territory. Danielson is deeply curious and knowledgeable about children’s thinking, the mathematics that they are encountering, and how to bring the two together with connection and joy.
For a book of ostensibly simple pictures of groups of familiar objects, How Did You Count? is full of unexpected complexities. And by design; Danielson has carefully curated an exhibition of images of numbers of everyday things that are invite different ways of counting at different degrees of sophistication. Perfect for in-class number discussions, and for sharing one-to-one.
The Teacher Guide gives us a valuable guided tour of the territory. Danielson is deeply curious and knowledgeable about children’s thinking, the mathematics that they are encountering, and how to bring the two together with connection and joy.
April 21, 2025
This is a great follow up to How Many? A Counting Book as a way to look at more sophisticated counting strategies. Unlike in How Many?, what you should count is usually made explicit this year, and the book's interest is very explicitly in how we count and in finding multiple ways to count.
The book starts with an example (after having posed a question and given space for an answer)
What we count is still a question, though -- love the prompt of whether you counted any basketballs that weren't visible.
The clear, simple photography in everyday settings continues to work really well here.
The book starts with an example (after having posed a question and given space for an answer)
What we count is still a question, though -- love the prompt of whether you counted any basketballs that weren't visible.
The clear, simple photography in everyday settings continues to work really well here.
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