Let's Read Math: Funbook 1

by Claire Passantino, Fiona Passantino (Illustrator)

Let s Read Math is about combining reading with math. The idea is to read a children s book, then do related math activities. The activities cover a wide variety of standards-based math topics. Each Funbook has math activities related to 16 different children s books. High-gloss covers fold out to reveal two full pages of punchout math manipulatives. For example, Funbook 1 has clothes to dress pigs, coins to count, buttons to sort, tangrams, and quilt designs. There are also prompts to encourage children to read and write about math, and to look for connections to math in the outside world. Funbook 1 is targeted to children in elementary grades K-4. The 16 children s books featured in Funbook 1 Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, Amelia Bedelia, Bart s Amazing Charts, The Button Box, Eight Hands Round, Game Time!, Grandfather Tang s Story, The Greedy Triangle, The Grouchy Ladybug, How Big is a Foot?, The King s Commissioners, Math-terpieces, Pigs Will Be Pigs, A Remainder of One, Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt, and Sea Squares. Most books are available through Amazon.com. There is an accompanying guide for parents and teachers, sold Let s Read Funbook 1 Teacher s Guide. The guide has the answers, an overview of the math topics addressed in each lesson, teaching tips and lesson extensions. There are other Let s Read Math Funbooks for your review, Let s Read Funbook A (for primary grades K-2), Let s Read Funbook 2 (for elementary grades K-4), and Let s Read Advanced Funbook 1 (for upper elementary grades.)

40 pages, Paperback

Published August 20, 2005