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Applied Math
How To •
Sample Lesson
How To:
The following is excerpted from Five in a Row.
© 1994 - 1998 by Jane Claire Lambert, all
rights reserved.
In many of the books chosen for this curriculum, young children ages
4-8 will enjoy finding practical ways to use the new concepts they are
learning in Applied Math.
For the youngest, there are many opportunities for counting practice,
whether it is counting the stars in a special illustration or pickets of a
fence in another. Finding and counting all the corks in Ferdinand
can be fun as well as a time for the teacher to see and hear their student
count actual objects.
Hexagons are covered in the material of The Bee Tree and an
introduction to telling time in The Finest Horse in Town.
Concepts of relative size, measuring, time and money are all found in
the stories of children's picture books. A book about quilts for instance
offers a chance to talk about geometric shapes. Because the concepts are
linked to an enjoyable story, your student will remember them with pleasure.
If time is available make math manipulatives using ideas from the
story illustrations. For instance, if you are going to read a book for a
week that is about trains, make flash cards with the facts printed
inside train cars. Use bright cheerful colors and write the answers on the
back. Laminating the cards will help them last. The cards can also contain
any term or new concept on one side with the definition on the other.
Reading the lesson story all the way through, enjoying the closeness
of the teacher, and the entertainment of the book establishes a good
environment for presenting a math lesson derived from the story. Even the
lesson will be a shared experience. If there are more math ideas that are
appropriate for one day, choose the ones you wish to cover and write them
on the planning sheet for the day you wish to cover Applied
Math.
Sample
Lesson:
The following is excerpted from Volume 1 of Five in
a Row. © 1994 - 1998 by Jane Claire
Lambert, all rights reserved.
Here's a sample Applied Math lesson taken from
Madeline. Every Thursday you'll find several lessons designed to
help children understand the real world application of math concepts.
Applied Math:
Beginning Grouping and Dividing
Skills
Take forty-eight blocks, pennies, clothes pins or marbles. Using the
first twelve to represent the girls, see how many groups of girls you would
have if Miss Clavel divided the girls up into groups of two to walk down the
stairs. Now, using the second twelve items, see how many groups would be
required if Miss Clavel made the girls go to the sink in groups of three.
Now, using the last dozen, see how many groups Miss Clavel would have if she
had the girls eat in groups of four. Finally, line the "girls" up in two
straight lines of six. How many groups are there? (two groups of six)"
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