Or when they solve puzzle, or read magical math books. Where do we expect our children to encounter math? Maybe when they have math lessons at school. Thanks to both of them for sharing their math book magic with us. Their post is an excellent example of two amazing, creative teachers taking a delightful picture book and examining the situations in the book through a mathematical lens. Lana is currently a math coach with K-6 students and teachers, and Meredith is a kindergarten teacher. cc #cbemath /mB2SOjeNvzĪnd the future is now! The post below was written by Lana and her colleague Meredith Wilkes. She died of ovarian cancer on Maat the age of 51.After listening to Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream book, students decided to build arrays with their shoes. She was also the host of the radio show Writers' Block Party on WBEZ Chicago Public Radio. Her essays and articles appeared in The New York Times, Hallmark Magazine, Parenting, O: The Oprah Magazine, and McSweeney's. Her short films include The Beckoning of Lovely, The Money Tree, The Kindness Thought Bubble, and Life Is a Marathon.

Her books for adults include Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life and Textbook Amy Krouse Rosenthal. She also wrote a picture book with her daughter Paris entitled Dear Girl. Her children's books included Little Pea, Little Hoot, Cookies: Bite-Size Life Lessons, Duck! Rabbit!, Spoon, The OK Book, Plant a Kiss, I Wish You More, That's Me Loving You, Exclamation Mark!, and Uni the Unicorn. She wrote both children's and adult books. Before becoming a full-time author, she worked in advertising for several years. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 3056 KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 1336 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).Īmy Krouse Rosenthal was born in Chicago, Illinois and graduated from Tufts University. If Little Pea doesn't eat all of his sweets, there will be no vegetables for dessert! What's a young pea to do? Children who have trouble swallowing their veggies will love the way this pea-size picture book serves up a playful story they can relate to.

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