TO INTRODUCE MATHS TO LITTLE PEOPLE

BOOKS to READ

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Maths is all around us and in lots of our picture books as well!

Using picture books is an engaging and non-threatening way of introducing our children to different math concepts.

Picture books can tell an intriguing story as well as adding something more -mathematically more – a way of building the language of maths.

Our children are using many maths concepts from early in their lives; a picture book will give them the language they need to hear and understand.

Making connections and links with rhymes and songs and books helps to ensure a smarter start to understanding patterns, number sense, size, shape, time, quantities, estimating, probability and problem solving.

Be HOT- use the Hands On Together activity to boost the learning.

There’s no need to wait wait until our children start school before we introduce some mathematical concepts!

Open the door to the marvellous world of maths!

COUNTING

A board book to read aloud overand over again while learning to count to 10 with the dinosaurs.

Such a fun read in the twistybranches of the Nickle Nackle tree!

HANDS ON TOGETHER! Count the stairs out loud as you go up and down.

ADDING & SUBTRACTING

How many cats are looking for rats? Lift the flap, pull the tab to find out!

Pete the Cat is losing his groovy buttons. Is he worried?

HANDS ON TOGETHER! Using empty ce-cream container, have your child clip pegs around the top while adding each peg & subtract while taking each peg away.

MULTIPLYING & DIVIDING

The doorbell rings and friends arrive just when its time to share the cookies. The children need to work out how many cookies everyone gets to eat.

HANDS ON TOGETHER! Using a cupcake pan, have your child add 1 object into each space to see the arrays. Then share the objects out.

Join Amanda Bean as she starts to understand multiplication after her amazing dream.

SHAPE

On the morning of Tim’s birthday, he gets a mysterious letter that takes him on an adventure into the world of shapes.

What shape is love? Share this delightful story and you will find out.

HANDS ON TOGETHER! Lie on your bed/on the grass and find all the shapes you can see.

DAYS of the WEEK

A newly hatched caterpillareats his way through all kinds of food. This is a well loved story.Great for understanding sequences

Cookie the cat gets up to all kinds of trouble over the week.

HANDS ON TOGETHER! Write down the days of the week and an activity for each day.

MEASUREMENT & WEIGHT & BALANCE

The boat sinks after too many animals try to balance their weight.

Little Pipkin, the smallest penguin is always asking very big questions.

HANDS ON TOGETHER! Using an empty ice-cream container in the bath, see how many animals can fit in before it sinks.

SPATIAL RELATIONS

Rosie goes for a walk and right behind her is the hungry fox. Rosie takes him on an obstaclecourse and tricks him.

Plants, food and gardeningbutterflies and ants- up anddown and all around!

HANDS ON TOGETHER! Make an obstacle course. Go up, around, under, over…..

TIME

Over time, this bad temperedladybird picks on all kinds ofdifferent sized animals.

A great explanation of time-a second is time enough to turn around, a week is 7 sleeps.

HANDS ON TOGETHER! Take a sheet of paper and make a timetable of your child’s day.

FRACTIONS

Kangaroo and friends make teams to have a sports day with swimming, tug of warand canoeing.

A rhyming book where youwill meet some great characterswho love eating dessert in themiddle of the night.

HANDS ON TOGETHER! Make a pizza and cut it up into fractions.. Yum, yum!

It’s never too early to start understanding maths.

My Busy Day hopes you have enjoyed our favourite books to help develop an understanding of maths concepts.

These books also make great gifts when you are looking to buy that something special that will be treasured and shared time and time again.

My Busy Day always buys their books from Booktopia, Australia’s best online bookstore.

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