Using Stories to Teach Maths Ages 4 to 7

Book excerpt: Make the teaching of Maths a more exciting and creative cross-curricular experience! This new series provides original and fun stories, sketches and poems to use as the basis for teaching objectives from the Mathematics Programme of Study. The stories are supported by differentiated lesson plans and original resources such as card games and suggestions for kinaesthetic activities. Ages 4-7 stories include: * The Numbers learn their Order * One to Twenty Poem * How Sir Cylinder saved Prince Pyramid * The numbers have a Quarrel * Ten's Problem * Joins and Splits * Bernice the Octopus buys a Watch * All Shapes and Sizes * My Problem with Pirates The stories have been road-tested in schools and the children thoroughly enjoyed them! * Differentiated * Cross-curricular