Teaching Math with Children’s Literature Course

Description

Do you love teaching through engaging picture books and stories? Do you wish you could combine literature with your math lessons? Well, now you can!

In this course, through engaging, yet bite-sized teaching videos, you will learn the different categories of math picture books and how to meaningfully include them in your lessons. You will also learn how to teach kids to ask questions, learn math vocabulary and make connections using their favorite picture books.

In addition, this course comes with tons of printable resources and games and an entire collection of ready to use literature-based math activities for grades K-5, allowing you to implement what you learn in the course right away.

You will also receive a certificate of completion for 1.5 hours of continuing education credit.

What’s Covered in This Course:

• The benefits of teaching math with picture books
• Different types of books and when/how to use them
• How to use picture books to:
  • Teach math vocabulary – what words to teach and then how to introduce, reinforce, review vocabulary
  • Teach inference & prediction
  • Make meaningful connections – math: math; math: world; math: self
  • Teach kids to be curious – encouraging meaningful questions
  • Teach kids to problem – solve and synthesize