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This was a cute book---Carole R. and I read this to my class. We started teaching basic fractions by using a piece of paper cut into smaller and smaller parts. Once they saw this visual, they had a better understanding of fractions. Then at the end of the story, we practiced multiplying and looking for patterns as the number of deserts increased. Great for vocabulary practice and math problems such as "twice the number of..."
ReplyDeleteGreat book on fractions and doubling up! I read this book to first, second and third graders. They really got into it. I was able to use the example of the Whole cake, Half, Quarter and Eighth and relate it to music notes, (whole, half, quarter and eighth notes) Some of my on top of it folks asked about 32nd notes and 64th which led into further fraction and musical discussions.
ReplyDeleteI thought this book would be a good way to introduce fractions. I think you could show equivalent fracations with all the different pieces. I think it would be fun to have the class act out each part as you are reading.
ReplyDeleteWe read this book as a whole class and talked about manners and character traits. They came up with the animals were rude and greedy. They also talked about how the animals wanted to "one up" each other. That led into a discussion about peer pressure. They had heard the book in music and were not very excited about reading it again, but when we took a different turn from the fractions they did in music, they really got into it. We talked about reading things more than once and you get different things out of it.
ReplyDeleteWe talked about how the animals in the book were very greedy also. I love Sue's comment about them "one upping each other"! We talked about how they would feel if they were at the end getting that little tiny piece when everyone at the front got more. I also modeled how they found out what "twice as much" of a number was with multiplication. We haven't started learning that yet, but I thought it couldn't hurt for them to see it! Great book!
ReplyDeleteWe talk about how the animals in the picture were not considered. We also use the book to make predictions. And also we were study thinks about the picture and right here in the text. Kids really enjoyed the book.
ReplyDeleteWhile reading this I thought I was only going to talk about fractions, but the kids changed that. They wanted to talk about how rude some of the characters were, and how some of them should be sad, or mad because they didn't get very much. I also talked about doubling numbers which jumped right into multiplication.
ReplyDeleteMy kids really loved this book and connected with it the socialization issues, sharing and being fair. They also got a good intro to fractions. I plan on rereading it when we teach fractions later in the year.
ReplyDeleteMann, this book was a handful!! It's a great book for both fractions and character traits. I think it would be good to read the book twice and the second time give the kiddos construction paper and have them cut out the parts!! I was amazed at how this "math" picture book could be used for other things!!
ReplyDeleteI liked this book!! I will revisit this book when we discuss fractions. It will be a great introduction for a fraction lesson. The ant was so cute!!
ReplyDeleteMy students really like this book they make predictions and loved the pictures. Good for math connections
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