An online resource for incorporating literature with teaching math to students in the elementary through middle grades, including more than 50 downloadable articles and more than 100 lesson plans.  

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Exploring Math through Literature, Pre-K–8 is an online teacher resource filled with lessons and activities that teach mathematical concepts while engaging students in a broad assortment of children’s literature, including picture books, stories, poetry, and novels. The lessons are based on journal articles from NCTM’s Teaching Children Mathematics and Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, and each matching of math lesson and work of literature is aimed at a specified grade level.

This resource includes more than 50 downloadable journal articles, each with one or more lesson plans (for a total of more than 100 lessons). Most include printable activity sheets for classroom use. Lesson plans include materials lists and step-by-step classroom instructions, and they detail the Common Core domains and clusters, as well as the Standards for Mathematical Practice, that each lesson will incorporate.

Try out a section of Exploring Math through Literature for free!  

Go to the Free Preview to freely download one of the journal articles in this product, along with its accompanying lesson plans and activity sheets.