Grandma's Button Box

Math Matters®

by Linda Williams Aber, Page Eastburn O'Rourke (Illustrator)

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.

While Grandma takes her morning walk, Kelly reaches for Grandma's button box. Crash! Buttons in every size, shape, and color fly everywhere! Will Kelly and her cousins have the buttons sorted and back in the button box before Grandma's return?

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 Sorting)

Genres: Mathematics, Childrens

32 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2002

Reviews

[Karen · Rating 2 out of 5]

..krb 8/10/17

[Kelsey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was really cute and I enjoyed the illustrative style. This was a perfect early reader text. I loved that this book discussed shapes, colors, and sizes!

[Becky Tilton · Rating 5 out of 5]

Plot summary:
Grandma’s Button Box is a Math Matters book. This is a K-3 concept book about four cousins go over to Grandma’s house. One of the cousins gets up early and searches for an activity to do while the others are asleep. She remembers how she enjoyed looking through Grandma’s button box. After a mishap, she and the other cousins must recover all the buttons and sort them. This cousins figure out several different waysto sort the buttons.
Activities:
#1 This book would go great with a sorting activity. Bring in a tin of assorted buttons and have students figure out different ways to sort them.
#2 When I was a child, I enjoyed stringing buttons. This would be a great way to work on fine motor skills. Children could also work on counting skills at the same time.

[Rosa Cline · Rating 3 out of 5]

A group of children are staying with their Grandma and one of the kids find her button box. She accidentally drops the box and spills them. Two of her cousins come to help her clean them up. They try and organize the buttons to go back in the box the way Grandma had them. But they don't know how. So they organize by size, color, etc. When all along Grandma didn't have any type of order but because the children organized them for her she was able to use the buttons on her sweater.

[Miss Erica · Rating 2 out of 5]

GR Level: ?

Elementary: E ABE

"When she spills her grandmother's button box, Kelly and her cousins try to sort them by size, color, and shape and they earn Grandma's gratitude." Great for teaching sorting- KINDER MATH CORE

[Jennifer · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a good book for relating math to real world situations. Also, this book is good for sorting by different characteristics.

[Kamyshia]

used for sorting by shape size and color . Have to decide how many buttons divides into the 12 departments .

[Michaela · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good for a lesson on sorting. Students can learn different ways to sort different items. Would use in Pre-K-1st.

[Jessica Chambliss · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book could involve sorting in a math lesson. It discusses button which young children can relate to! Perfect for pre-k- 1st grade to teach colors, numbers, shapes and sizes!