The Contexts for Learning Mathematics Teacher Pack: Grades K–1 contains 1 Getting Started guide, 3 unit books, and 3 context-setting read-aloud books.
The 3 unit books and their related read-aloud books are:
Unit Book: Bunk Beds and Apple Boxes: Early Number Sense
Read-Aloud Book: The Sleepover
In Bunk Beds and Apple Boxes children learn about compensation and equivalence within the context of a pajama party during which eight excitable girls confound their babysitter by continually changing places on their bunk bed and also in a grocery store where a grocer arranges apples in different-sized trays. The arithmetic rack is introduced as a model for exploring part-whole relations.
Unit Book: Beads and Shoes, Making Twos: Extending Number Sense
Read-Aloud Book: Grandma’s Necklace
Beads and Shoes, Making Twos uses the context of walking hand in hand in two lines to explore doubles and even or odd numbers. A story about designing necklace patterns using two colors of beads creates a context for exploring the relationship between doubles and skip-counting and invites students to work with groups as units.
Unit Book: The Double Decker Bus: Early Addition and Subtraction
Read-Aloud Book: The Double-Decker Bus
The Double-Decker Bus, the story of a little girl’s efforts to count the passengers on fast-moving double-decker buses, introduces students to the benefits of using the five-structure to quickly calculate quantities. The arithmetic rack, whose beads mirror the organization of seats on the buses, provides a model for solving addition and subtraction problems.
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