Math+Literature

These lessons revolve around the book, //Math Curse// by Jon Scieszka. The lessons can use an inquiry approach, as well they can be used to teach a variety of different problem solving strategies, all based around a personalized version of the story. If you have any questions or suggestions, please email me at shaun.hart@nwsd.ca

This is one of Robert Munsch's classic children's books and it has a couple of lessons that revolve around measurement. The first lesson is based on Time and the amount of sleep that kids and adults are supposed to get. The second lesson is based on Distance and how much running around Jason's father, or the teacher, does when sleepwalking. This lesson can be inquiry based where the students measure each distance in relation to the story.

[|Sir Cumference and all the King's Tens] This book teaches about the Base 10 system, and why the organization of numbers is important. It uses the idea of Number tents for each place in the "Knightly Number Neighbourhood". It is an American made lesson, so it will be needed to be adapted so that the numbers do not have the comma between them.