MathsThroughStories.org Newsletter (January 2019 Issue)

Welcome to the January 2019 issue of
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ONLY 56 DAYS TO GO, AND NO WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT BREXIT!

Entries for the Young Mathematical Story Author (YMSA) competition opened on Monday 7th January 2019, and since then we have already received several entries, including a class teacher who submitted mathematical story picture books created by each and every pupil in her class!

Please remember that the closing date for entries is Friday 29th March 2019 (17:00 UK time). Your pupils still have plenty of time, but it's certainly worth keeping that date in mind.

For more details of the YMSA competition, click here. You may also find our summary of key features of well-written mathematical story picture books here useful.

MATHSTHROUGHSTORIES.ORG RECOMMENDED ON SCHOOLS' MATHEMATICS CURRICULUM WEBPAGE

We have recently noticed how a number of schools have started to recommend their teachers and parents to use our MathsThroughStories.org website on their schools' Mathematics Curriculum webpage! This is fantastic!

We have highlighted these wonderful schools on our Research Impact webpage.

If your school also recommends us on the school's Mathematics Curriculum webpage, please let us know!

LESSON IDEAS

Our latest On-line Contributor (Martyn Yeo) would like to share with you how he used Leo Lionni's 'Pezzettino' to help his Year 2 (6-7 years old) pupils in Warwickshire, UK consolidate their understanding of fractions. Click here to read his lesson idea.

We hope his lesson idea will inspire you to give this creative mathematics teaching strategy 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

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 Ellen Stoll Walsh's 'Balancing Act' (with a focus on the concept of weight comparison for children aged 4+ years old)

Click here to read our review of Corey Rosen Schwartz's 'Twinderella' (with a focus on the concept of halving for children aged 5+ years old)

MATHEMATICAL STORY VIDEOS

Our partner, KidTime StoryTime, would like to share with you a video of them reading Stuart J. Murphy's 'It's About Time'.

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 JANUARY 2019

LATEST WEBSITE STATS

Since the launch of our website on 2 March 2017 (the World Book Day), MathsThroughStories.org has been viewed over 220,000 times by more than 40,000 teachers and parents from over 170 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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