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. Younger students can count up
the food intake in The Very Hungry
Caterpillar, students in the middle grades can convert the magical money
denominations of the Harry Potter
stories, and older students can analyze the probabilities found in the world of
The Hunger Games.
This resource
includes more than 50 downloadable journal articles. Each article has one or
more accompanying lesson plan (for a total of more than 100 lessons), and most
include printable activity sheets for classroom use. Each article can be
accessed through one or more of the eight mathematical topics on this page,
ranging from Number & Operations to Functions. The 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.
You can view one
article with all its accompanying materials for free by clicking on the “Sample
Article” link. To purchase Exploring
Math through Literature, Pre-K–8, go to its page at the NCTM online
bookstore here. If you have already purchased this product, you can sign
in at the top of the page.