Do you see math students struggling to engage in math practices?
– Unwilling to share their thinking with others?
– Giving up easily rather than persevering to solve problems?
– Unsure of how they can work together to learn?
Read Use Your Math Power ebooks to students. Project the ebooks for all to observe the characters persevere to understand unfamiliar problems and reconsider misconceptions. Your students will discover how they can discuss math problems just like the children in the books! Now available on Teachers Pay Teachers. Here are links for the ebooks:
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Monkeys-for-the-Zoo-4109222
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Hatching-Butterflies-4110841
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Penguins-on-Parade-4110849
In addition, three Use Your Math Power Readers’ Theater Scripts focusing on fractions and division with remainders as well as the Common Core Math Practices are now available on Teachers Pay Teachers.
Animal Race
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Penguins-on-Parade-4110849
The Cupcake Bakers
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/The-Cupcake-Bakers-Math-Readers-Theater-4060504
What’s the Problem?
https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Whats-the-Problem-Math-Readers-Theater-4060559
Each script is $1.50. A set of the three scripts is $3.00.
In the scripts, Mr. Trotter’s students work to make sense of fractions and division with remainders. Here are descriptions of the scripts.
Animal Race
In Animal Race, students see children learn to help each other ask questions and work through confusions in math together as they strengthen their growth mindset. As your students take on the roles in this script, they will see strategies they can use to compare fractions such as model drawing, drawing number lines and using their understanding of numerators and denominators.
The Cupcake Bakers
In The Cupcake Bakers, students see children learning to work together more cooperatively, giving everyone a chance to share their thinking so they all see themselves growing in math. As your students take on the roles in this script, they see strategies they can use to find equivalent fractions. They explore ways to use number lines, paper folding and knowledge about unit fractions to find equivalent fractions.
What’s the Problem?
In What’s the Problem Readers’ Theater students see how children learn to work more cooperatively by sharing their understanding more completely and learning from each others’ ideas. As your students take on the roles in this script, they see ways to create different types of division story problems, use the relationship between multiplication and division, and interpret remainders.