Dad of Divas' Reviews: Book Review - How Many Ways Can You Make Five?: A Parent's Guide to Exploring Math with Children's Books

Friday, July 13, 2012

Book Review - How Many Ways Can You Make Five?: A Parent's Guide to Exploring Math with Children's Books

About the Book
Explore connections between math and everyday life with your child! The activities in How Many Ways Can You Make Five? link popular children's books—which you are probably already reading with your child—with easy, fun-filled activities you can use to explore important math concepts like mapping, following directions, noticing patterns, and finding shapes.

Sally Anderson is the founder and executive director of the Vermont Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress.

About the Author 
Sally Anderson is the founder and executive director of the Vermont Center for the Book, an affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress. She has created professional development programs for early childhood educators and librarians across the country, including courses centering on math, science, social studies, and early literacy. Sally is the author of Social Studies and Me! and is a recipient of many awards and honors, among them the Hope S. Dean Memorial Award from the Foundation for Children’s Literature, the Lyman Hunt Jr. Award from the Vermont Council on Reading, and a Special Recognition Award from the New England Reading Association.

My Take on the Book
As a parent I am always looking for ways to educate my children. Whether this is through games, books, activities or the like, I am always trying to find something new. Thus, when I can find books like this that help bring together many resources in one place, it makes my life a lot easier. With the fact that we read a ton to our kids, this book is amazing as it makes great connections between children's books and the math concepts that they contain. The book has a great array of books that the author has made connection to and many of them were ones that I had heard of in the past, but had not put together the connection to math concepts within them. There were others though that I had not heard of and this book spurred me into going to our own library's website to see if I could place some of these other books on hold. The book was easy to read and is a great resource for any parent or teacher!

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