{"id":1545,"date":"2009-08-30T12:49:02","date_gmt":"2009-08-30T17:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/archives\/1545"},"modified":"2009-08-30T12:49:02","modified_gmt":"2009-08-30T17:49:02","slug":"teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-how-math-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/08\/30\/teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-how-math-works\/","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Process Skills With Children&#8217;s Literature: How Math Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/How-Math-Works\/dp\/0762102330\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1251650330&amp;sr=1-1\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/1st-blog-pic.jpg\" title=\"1st-blog-pic.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/files\/2009\/09\/1st-blog-pic.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"1st-blog-pic.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=how+math+works\" title=\"How Math Works \">How Math Works<\/a>, by Carol Vorderman, is an interesting guide to deciphering the mysteries of mathematics.\u00a0 Geared towards students in grades 3-6, this book includes many hands-on experiments with clear, step-by-step instructions and colorful photographs.\u00a0 A list of materials needed to create your own home laboratory is included as well.\u00a0 Students will find experiments such as how to make a thermometer out of a plastic bottle and additional experiments with mass, weight, and volume.\u00a0 Third graders studying simple machines can learn more about the connections between math and science on page 28 and make their own pulley on page 29.\u00a0 This book is a wonderful resource for upper elementary students and would come in handy when creating science fair projects.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Curriculum Connections<\/strong><br \/>\nThis book includes a variety of experiments to provide a more concrete, tactile experience with abstract concepts such as measuring volume, mass, weight, temperature.\u00a0 Along the way, students will be actually &#8220;doing&#8221; science by making predictions and observations, questioning, forming hypotheses, making inferences and conclusions, and sequencing natural events chronologicially.\u00a0 When making a pulley, students are learning more about one type of simple machine, how it functions, what it is used for, and that forces cause changes in motion.\u00a0 By using this book and performing its experiments on measurement, students will make estimations on length, mass and volume, measure accurately using basic tools, and develop an understanding of the nature of science and its connection to mathematics.\u00a0 All these things relate to the Scientific Investigation, Reasoning and Logic standards in grades 3 through 6.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><strong>Additional Resources <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u00a0Information on simple machines resides <a href=\"http:\/\/www.enchantedlearning.com\/physics\/machines\/Levers.shtml\" title=\"here\">here<\/a> .\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>To access\u00a0an interesting lesson plan on volume, click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.instructorweb.com\/lesson\/volume.asp\" title=\"here\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.teach-nology.com\/platinum\/measure.html\" title=\"website\">website<\/a>\u00a0to create measurement worksheets.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Here&#8217;s\u00a0another\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.momsinspirelearning.com\/2009\/04\/math-to-world-connections-part-3.html\" title=\"book\">book<\/a>\u00a0on math\/science connections.\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Book:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/s\/ref=nb_ss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&amp;field-keywords=how+math+works\" title=\"How Math Works \">How Math Works<\/a><strong><br \/>\nAuthor:<\/strong> Carol Vorderman<strong><br \/>\nIllustrator:<\/strong> Gurinder Purewall<strong><br \/>\nPublisher:<\/strong> Reader&#8217;s Digest<strong><br \/>\nPublication Date:<\/strong> Reprint edition &#8211; July 19, 1999<strong><br \/>\nPages:<\/strong> 192<br \/>\n<strong>Grade Range:<\/strong> 3-6<br \/>\n<strong>ISBN:<\/strong> 978-0762102334<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How Math Works, by Carol Vorderman, is an interesting guide to deciphering the mysteries of mathematics.\u00a0 Geared towards students in grades 3-6, this book includes many hands-on experiments with clear, step-by-step instructions and colorful photographs.\u00a0 A list of materials needed &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/2009\/08\/30\/teaching-process-skills-with-childrens-literature-how-math-works\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4424,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,69,735],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-review","category-math","category-process-skills"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/openwidelookinside\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}