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Welcome to the October 2018 issue of
MathsThroughStories.org newsletter!

 
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THE YOUNG MATHEMATICAL STORY AUTHOR (YMSA) ​COMPETITION - TEACHER VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

Since we have recently launched the Young Mathematical Story Author (YMSA) competition, we have received so much interests from teachers around the world on the competition. Many of them asked for examples of story picture books created by students. We are thus looking for teacher volunteers who can get their students to create their own story picture book (on any mathematical topic of their choice) between now and January.

Our plan is to upload a few examples of well-written mathematical story picture books on the Competitions webpage in January 2019, three months before the entry submission deadline.

If you think you can help, please let us know!

 

LESSON IDEAS
 

Our latest On-line Contributor (Madeline Price) would like to share with you how she used Matthew McElligott's 'Bean Thirteen' to help her Grade 5 students in Texas learn the concept of prime and composite numbers. Click here to read her lesson idea

We hope her lesson idea will inspire you to give this creative approach of mathematics teaching a go yourself!

If you have recently used a story in your mathematics teaching and would like to share your experience with fellow teachers and parents globally, consider becoming part of our growing team of On-line Contributors! Click here for more details. 

LATEST BOOK REVIEWS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

This October 2018 issue marks the third and final part in a series of issues where we review all the English translated version of over 20 interesting mathematical story picture books which are part of the world's largest mathematical story series, called the TanTan Math Story series. (The original version, published in Korean language, has over 70+ mathematical stories in total.)

Read our official reviews of these stories by clicking on the book covers below or visit our Book Reviews page.

If you are a publisher or an independent author and would like us to review your mathematical story picture book, click here for more details.

 
Click here to read our review of Ye-Shil Kim’s ‘Breakfast around the World’ (focus on the concept of fractions for children aged 5+ years old)
Click here to read our review of Ji-hyeon Kim’s ‘Mr. Owl’s Bakery’ (focus on the concept of skip counting for children aged 5+ years old)
Click here to read our review of In-sook Kim’s ‘Running an Errand’ (focus on addition for children aged 4+ years old)
Click here to read our review of Seon-hye Jang’s ‘The Big Hairy Monster’ (focus on practise counting from 1 to 10 for children aged 4+ years old)
Click here to read our review of Haneul Ddang’s ‘Busy, Busy, Busy!’ (focus on the concept of patterns for children aged 5+ years old)
 
Click here to read our review of Ah-hae Yun’s ‘Princess Star’ (focus on the idea that mathematics is all around us for children aged 4+ years old)
Click here to read our review of Mi-ae Lee’s ‘The Best Food in the Forest’ (focus on data handling for children aged 5+ years old)
Click here to read our review of Eun-Seon Han’s ‘The Farmer’s Dream’ (focus on zero, large numbers and place value for children aged 6+ years old)
MATHEMATICAL STORY VIDEOS

Our partner, KidTime StoryTime, would like to share with you a video of them reading Stuart J. Murphy's 'Monster Musical Chairs'.

For more videos of mathematical stories by them, click here.

KidTime StoryTime works hard to ensure they obtain appropriate permission from relevant publishers to produce high quality videos of them reading wonderful mathematical stories. Be sure to show them some love by visiting their website, subscribing to their YouTube channel, following their Twitter account, and Like-ing their Facebook page!

MATHS THROUGH STORIES
THE NATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMME

In this academic year alone, Dr. Trakulphadetkrai (founder of MathsThroughStories.org) will be delivering the Maths Through Stories training workshop to over 100 in-service teachers and 1,600 teacher trainees across the UK and abroad.

Consequently, MathsThroughStories.org has now officially become the largest and most trusted training provider on integrating story picture books in mathematics teaching and learning. 


Details of Dr. Trakulphadetkrai's other upcoming workshops can be found here

If your school, local educational authority or teacher education programme (both within or outside the UK) is interested in receiving training from Dr. Trakulphadetkrai at your institution, please get in touch with him directly here.

MATHS THROUGH STORIES WORKSHOPS IN OCTOBER 2018

LATEST WEBSITE STATS

Since the launch of our website on 2 March 2017 (the World Book Day), MathsThroughStories.org has been viewed over 190,000 times by more than 33,000 teachers and parents from over 160 countries around the world! This is truly amazing and a reflection of your growing desire to learn more about how mathematical story picture books can be integrated meaningfully in mathematics teaching and learning.

To find out more about these statistics, click here for a full Google Analytics report.

 

MathsThroughStories.org is a non-profit and research-based initiative. It sets out to encourage teachers and parents around the world to use stories to enhance their mathematics teaching and learning.

We firmly believe that the use of mathematical stories, particularly in the picture book format, can help mathematics learners develop their conceptual understanding in mathematical concepts, and to help them foster positive attitudes towards the subject.
 
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