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Integrating Children's Literature and Mathematics in the Classroom
Michael Schiro
Pub Date: 1997, 176 pages
Paperback: $19.95, ISBN: 0807735647
Cloth: $46, ISBN: 0807735655
 
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Illustrating how children’s literature can be used to communicate mathematical concepts, this book is the first ever to take a serious look at the philosophical and pedagogical assumptions underlying the movement to integrate the teaching of mathematics and children’s literature. Using numerous detailed examples, the author presents a pedagogical model in which elementary and middle school teachers can link mathematics to children’s literary criticism, as well as a set of standards for assessing the mathematical and literary quality of children’s books that contain mathematics.
Chapters: Introduction • The Doorbell Rang: A Classroom Example of Mathematical Literary Criticism and Editing • The Doorbell Kept Ringing! A Pedagogical Model Proposed and Analyzed • Evaluation Standards for Children’s Mathematics Trade Books • Mathematical Enhancement of Children’s Books • Appendix: An Assessment Instrument for Children’s Mathematics Trade Books
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