Marci A. Malinsky’s research while affiliated with Arkansas State University and other places

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Publications (1)


Wondrous Tales of Measurement
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March 2008

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Teaching Children Mathematics

Marci A. Malinsky

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Mark McJunkin

Have you ever considered teaching mathematical concepts through the use of children's literature? One way to begin is to re-create how children learned long ago—elders spinning yarns as twilight deepened, young people caught up in wondrous tales that taught them about their world. To help students make a tactile connection to the experience from long ago, all you need are a skein of yarn and eager students seated in a circle.

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... Other times the mathematical idea is explored explicitly in the book, even though the book itself may have been written for a broader purpose (e.g., The Doorbell Rang, by Pat Hutchins). There are many examples of teacher educators and classroom teachers publishing articles in journals such as Teaching Children Mathematics and Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom sharing lessons and units of work in which they have harnessed children's storybooks that possess these explicit links to specific mathematical concepts (e.g., Malinsky & McJunkin, 2008;Padula, 2004;Taber & Canonica, 2008). ...

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Narrative-first approach: Teaching mathematics through picture story books
Wondrous Tales of Measurement
  • Citing Article
  • March 2008

Teaching Children Mathematics