Workshop 5

The Literature and Math Connection

Do not overlook the opportunity to connect literature and mathematics -- a combination that changes students comprehension and mathematical abilities.  Design one or more workshops for your school improvement needs by selecting a book with the  NCTM expectations you want to address.   For a one day workshop, select 6 titles; for a two day workshop, select 12 titles. 

For a list of additional books, E-mail Jane Haught at jane@masteringmath.com or call, 701-258-8618. 

Concepts addressed by each book below are mapped to student expectations from Principles and Standards for School Mathematics, 2000.

Book Titles and NCTM Expectations:

1)  Mouse Count  -- Students will:

• recognize, describe, and extend patterns.
• know the facts whose sum is 10.
• accurately estimate length.
• draw the representation of a cylinder.

2)  The Very Busy Spider -- Students will:

• draw an inscribed octagon.
• draw a Venn diagram.
• recognize various geometric shapes.

3)  Remainder of 1 -- Students will:   

• know the 5 ways to treat a remainder.
• numerically represent an array.
• count by 2's, 5's, and 10's and represent each pattern with a formula.

4)  Pigs Will be Pigs  /   Fun With Math and Money -- Students will:                

• Students will count money and make change.

5) Introduction to Analogies   -- Students will:

• Students will develop reasoning skills.

6)  Clocks and More Clocks -- Students will:  

• read and write Roman Numerals
• identify the types of angles.
• name direction and degree of rotation.

7)  Round Trip -- Students will:

• Students will draw buildings using perspective drawing skills.

8)   Mouse Paint -- Students will:

• know the meaning of  two-dimensional and three-dimensional.
• draw the representation of a two-dimensional and a three-dimensional mouse.
• estimate and find the area and perimeter of an irregular figure.
• draw a hexagon and a color wheel.
• know the colors of the Unifix cubes.

9)  Inch by Inch  /  Inch Worm and A Half  -- Students will:

• Students will draw geometric figures with given customary lengths.

10)  Anno's Magic Seed -- Students will:

• Students will model an array, multiply and add on.

11)  Draw Me A Star  /  How Many Stars In The Sky?  -- Students will:

• understand the meaning of countable and infinitely countable.
• understand the number line.
• draw four and five pointed stars.

12)  The Librarian Who Measured The Earth  -- Students will:

• draw a sphere.
• draw an ellipse and the solar system.
• find the diameter, circumference, and surface area of an orange and a sphere.

13)  Egg-Napped  -- Students will:

• write mathematical notations representing events in the story.
• draw a Venn diagram.
• learn about rotation.

14)  Grandfather Tang's Story  -- Students will:

• learn the meaning of the words two dimensional and three dimensional.
• will see geometric figures within a figure.
• make pictures with tangrams.

15)  The Kings Commissioners  -- Students will:

• learn the place value of each digit in a numeral.
• round numbers.

16)  Get Up and Go  -- Students will:

• draw a time line.

17)  Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt  -- Students will:

• name geometric figures found in common quilt patterns.
• make tesselations.

18)  The Button Box  -- Students will:

• compare and contrast objects.
• draw graphs to represent classification schemes.

19)  The Mitten  -- Students will:

• know the common uses of negative numbers.
• draw a Venn diagram.

20)  Fraction Action  -- Students will:

• model the various meanings of a fraction.

21)  M and M's Math  -- Students will:

• display data on 11 different types of graphs or tables.
  
  (For a one day workshop, choose two other books besides M and M Math.)

22)  Grapes of Math and other books by Greg Tang  -- Students will:

• generate addition facts whose sum is 11.
• master the facts whose sum is 10.
• recognize dot patterns whose sum is 10.
• represent the two meanings of addition and the four meanings of subtraction.
• know the two types of mathematical notations for addition and subtraction.

For each story, teachers will receive:  student dictionary with activity workbook, game book, plus materials unique to each story

Who should attend?  K - 5th grade teachers and all support staff

For a one or two day  workshop, please bring:  deck of cards, black permanent marker, 2 inch 3-ring binder, glue stick, tacky putty, 50 unlined 3 by 5 cards, scissor, tape, paper clips, 15 self-sealing bags, 20 rubber bands, 100 popsicle sticks, 15 feet of string, geoboard, geobands, 15 tabbed dividers