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Using Picture Books in the Math Curriculum, Prekindergarten through Second Grade.

by Carol Otis Hurst and Rebecca Otis. (SRA/McGraw Hill, 1996) is now available in its second edition, Picture Book Math (Rebecca Otis, 2005) as an eBook on CD.

This book for teachers contains some of our favorite picture books with a wealth of ideas for ways to integrate them with your math curriculum. In the first section we take 50 picture books and provide a short summary and activities for various age levels and math concepts. Section two is a chart listing 211 picture books indicating which of 14 different math concepts they can best be used with. In the last section we address twelve math concepts in depth providing activities which strengthen these concepts which can be used with many different picture books. 152 pages.

Table of Contents

Sample Chapters:

• Section 1: Individual Books
  • My Place in Space (Hirst)
  • Mud Flat Olympics (Stevenson)
• Section 3: Math Concept Categories
  • Patterns
  • Data Gathering
  • Computation

Related Areas Within Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Web Site

• Picture Book Math by Carol Otis Hurst and Rebecca Otis
  Sample chapters, Table of Contents and Ordering Information.
  http://www.carolhurst.com/products/pbmcd.html

• Children's Books in the Math Curriculum
  Featured Subject with articles, books reviews and links.
  http://www.carolhurst.com/subjects/math/math.html