MathsThroughStories.org Newsletter (Spring 2020 Issue)

Welcome to the Spring 2020 issue of
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UPDATE ON THE 2020 'YOUNG MATHEMATICAL STORY AUTHOR (YMSA)' COMPETITION

Following the submission deadline on Friday 27 March 2020, we are very pleased to say that, in total, we have received very strong entries from 327 students representing 50 schools and homeschooling sites across 10 countries. This is obviously a massive relief for us as schools around the world have been shut for quite some time now and yet many children had chosen to use their time at home to work on their YMSA entry!

While only two of these children will be the winners of our 8-11 and 12-15 age categories, we hope to recognise a few more children in each category by identifying some shortlisted entries as well.

The Judging Panel will be working very hard over the next few weeks to go through these entries, and we intend to publicly announce the result by Friday 29 May 2020.

To learn more about our 2020 competition, please click here.

You can read winning and shortlisted entries from our 2019 competition here.

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OUR LATEST BLOG POST

With schools in many countries now being shut down indefinitely in an effort to stop the coronavirus outbreak, many parents are increasingly worried about what they can do to support their child’s learning at home over the next few weeks and possibly months. One subject in particular that many parents need help with is maths. While some children may have already been given maths worksheets by their teachers to work on, it will likely be a matter of days before they start to lose their interest in having to routinely solve pages and pages of maths problems.

Read our latest blog post, titled 'Use storytelling to enhance maths learning of your child, regardless of their age, at home', to learn more about how parents can support their child in using storytelling as an effective maths learning strategy while keeping them firmly engaged in their maths learning. What’s more – this strategy is not limited to just pre-school children, but is applicable to those in primary (elementary) schools and beyond too.

To read all our blog posts, visit our Blog section.

As a side note, we hope everyone stays safe in this rapidly changing situation!

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LATEST BOOK REVIEWS AND RECOMMENDATIONS

Read our official reviews of latest mathematical stories by clicking on the book covers below or visit our Book Reviews page for reviews of 100+ mathematical stories.

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 Ann McCallum’s ‘Beanstalk: The Measure of a Giant’ (with a focus on proportion and measurement for children aged 8+ years old)

Click here to read our review of Laura Driscoll’s ‘A Mousy Mess’ (with a focus on sorting and classification for children aged 5+ years old)

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LESSON IDEAS

Davinder Mankoo, a primary school teacher at a special needs school in Cambridge (UK), is the latest member of our international team of On-line Contributors.

In this issue, she would like to share with you her experience of using two popular story picture books by Julia Donaldson, namely The Gruffalo and The Snail and the Whale, to introduce her pupils (aged 9-11 years old) with special educational needs to the concept of grid co-ordinates and length measurement respectively.

To read her lesson ideas, click on these books' covers on our Lesson Ideas section.

We hope her experience 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.

MATHS THROUGH STORIES
THE NATIONAL TRAINING PROGRAMME

To date, Dr. Trakulphadetkrai (founder of MathsThroughStories.org) has delivered the Maths Through Stories training workshop to over 600 in-service teachers and around 2,000 teacher trainee across the UK and abroad.

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

Details of his recent workshops can be found below, and details of his upcoming workshops can be found here.

If your school, local educational authority or 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.

RECENT MATHS THROUGH STORIES WORKSHOP

LATEST WEBSITE STATS

Since the launch of our website on 2 March 2017 (the World Book Day), MathsThroughStories.org has now been viewed over 450,000 times by more than 102,000 teachers and parents from nearly 200 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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MathsThroughStories.org is a non-profit and research-based initiative. It sets out to encourage teachers and parents globally to use stories to enhance mathematics teaching.

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 foster positive attitudes towards the subject.

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