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Click here to read our review of Stuart Murphy's 'Divide and Ride'
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Click here to read our review of Stuart Murphy's 'Less Than Zero'
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Click here to read our review of Stuart Murphy's 'Earth Day - Hooray!'
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Click here to read our review of Stuart Murphy's 'The Grizzly Gazette'
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MATHS STORY TIME!
Listen to our partner, KidTime StoryTime, reading some of Stuart J. Murphy's mathematical stories on our website for free by clicking on the book covers below.
To see videos of them reading mathematical stories by other authors, click here.
They work really hard to produce high quality and engaging videos, and to obtain permission from relevant publishers to produce these videos for you. Show them some love by visiting their website, subscribing to their YouTube channel, following their Twitter account, and Like-ing their Facebook page!
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MATHEMATICAL STORIES RECOMMENDATIONS
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RECENT MATHS THROUGH STORY
TRAINING WORKSHOPS
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This month, Dr. Trakulphadetkrai (founder of MathsThroughStories.org) ran a training workshop for 120+ teacher trainees at the University of Brighton (UK). Below you will find photos from this event and feedback from some of the participants.
Details of other previous training workshops can be found here.
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“Vince gave a really engaging 2 hour session that inspired and enthused our final year students on the BA Primary QTS course. In spite of being in a lecture theatre, the session was practical; Vince provided each student (and there were over 120) with a story book to support discussion and the students were able to co-construct lesson ideas based on these. In addition to being a practical session, all of Vince’s input had strong theoretical foundations. These supported the students to evaluate texts critically based on the quality of the story, the connection with the underpinning mathematical concepts and the opportunities for promoting social inclusion. This session is highly recommended.”
Dr. Alison Barnes
BA Primary English/Mathematics Education with QTS Route Leader
University of Brighton (UK)
“Really great. Very well structured. Good activities and opportunities to discuss and share. Very approachable and friendly speaker – people not scared to share. Well done for keeping everyone engaged for so long!”
“Very good and eye opening. I had misconceptions about the use of stories in mathematics teaching at the beginning of the session that were erased by the end.”
“Fantastic! Lots of great ideas – inspiring me to use story books in maths. Dynamic trainer – thank you, Vincent! ” “Very informative and interesting. Interactive. Thanks for giving lots of good lesson content ideas. I feel like now I’ll be able to use storybooks in maths teaching to develop children’s reasoning.”
“Very thorough and informative. Interesting to learn about cross curricular links for the core subjects. Enthusiastic guest speaker made it engaging.”
Early years and primary school teacher trainees at the University of Brighton
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UPCOMING MATHS THROUGH STORY
TRAINING WORKSHOPS
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Dr. Trakulphadetkrai has recently been invited by UK's Derbyshire County Council to help put together a whole-day Maths Through Stories CPD event for teachers across Derbyshire and beyond. He will join forces with Edward Einhorn (New York / London), the author of 'A Very Improbable Story' and 'Fractions in Disguise', at this event. If you teach in the UK and are interested in attending this event, you can book your place here: http://www.services.derbyshire.gov.uk/Event/69206
Details of Dr. Trakulphadetkrai's other upcoming workshops can be found here.
If your school, local educational authority or university-based teacher education programme (both within and outside the UK) is interested in receiving training from Dr. Trakulphadetkrai at your institution, please get in touch with him directly here. |
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LATEST WEBSITE STATS
Since the launch of our website on 2 March 2017 (the World Book Day), MathsThroughStories.org has been viewed over 128,000 times by more than 21,000 teachers and parents from almost 140 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.
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OUR FIRST ADVERT!
To celebrate our first anniversary (March, 2nd), we decided to have our first advert designed and placed in the upcoming issue of The UK's Mathematical Association's Primary Mathematics journal with a readership of 5,000+ teachers. This issue, to be released in May 2018, will be a special issue with a focus on enriching mathematics teaching and learning through storytelling, and will be edited by Dr. Trakulphadetkrai.
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TEACHERS' DONATION CAMPAIGNS
MathsThroughStories.org would like to draw your attention to the three teachers below who need your help! These teachers are truly passionate in using stories to enhance their children's mathematical understanding and love for the subject. Click on the images to learn more about their respective campaign and see the list of their carefully handpicked mathematical stories that they need for their class.
Click here to see past campaigns.
Get in touch if you have your own Maths Through Stories donation campaign that you would like us to help promote!
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Ms. Vannoy's Grades 3-5 class (North Carolina, USA) welcomes your donation.
Her campaign's deadline is 4 May 2018.
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Mrs. Duchesne's Grade PreK-2 class (Maine, USA) welcomes your donation.
Her campaign's deadline is 17 May 2018.
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Ms. Reber's Grade PreK-2 class (Arizona, USA) welcomes your donation. Her campaign's deadline is 23 May 2018.
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