how to use living math books

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  • April 18, 2013 at 3:52 pm
    mrsmccardell
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    Hi, 
    I am new to using math living books and I am browsing some books from the lists on the living math web site.  I currently have Anno’s Counting House and Right in Your Own Backyard.  They look very interesting yet I don’t understand how to use them.

    We are using Ray’s Arithmetic and we’re only in the beginning working on recognizing groups of numbers with manipulatives (dc ages 5 & 6).  Right in Your Own Backyard is helpful as it lists each page with the math focus (ie patterns, multiplication, etc).  If we’re just working with number combinations or addition/subtraction do I skip all the other pages?  If that’s the case, how do I choose living books to go along with the concept we are currently working with…w/o spending hours trying to find the perfect book? 

    I really like the “I Love Math” series so would these alone help as needed across concepts? 

    I know with using CM she suggests that you don’t make subjects coincide and that the children will make the connections…I can’t imagine that goes for math too?!

    I hope I’m making sense but if you need clarification please let me know.  

    Blessings,

    Leslie

    April 18, 2013 at 10:37 pm
    JennyMN
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    We just read the books as we found them at the library.  We didn’t correlate it to their math program.  Sometimes the book would be introducing something they hadn’t learned and somtimes it would be reviewing something we already covered.  I found both ways to be helpful.

    I found this list that arranges several math picture books by concept.  I’m not familiar with all of the books so use your judgement on if they are a living book or not.  But, maybe this would help if you do desire to correlate them. 

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