Integrating Children's Literature and Mathematics in the Classroom

Illustating how children's literature can be useed to communicate mathematical concepts, this book takes a serious look at the philosophical and pedagogical assumptions underlying the movement to integrate the teaching of mathematics and children's literature. Using numerous detailed examples, the author presents a pedagogical model in which elementary and middle-school teachers can link mathematics to children's literary criticism, as well as a set of standards for assessing the mathematical and literary quality of children's books that contain mathematics.