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Related Activities to Try at Home

Telling and Solving Story Problems Look for addition and subtraction situations at home. For example, say, “If we have 4 apples, 8 bananas, and 7 plums in the fruit bowl, how many pieces of fruit do we have?” or “If you have 20 pennies and you spend 15 pennies, how many do you have left?” “We have 8 people coming for dinner. We have only 6 chairs. How many more do we need?” Encourage your child to make up story problems for you too!

Math and Literature Most of the following books should be available at your local library. You can read them together, count the objects on each page, or use the illustrations to pose simple addition or subtraction problems: “There are 7 birds on this page. How many would there be if 4 more birds came along?”

Bateman, Donna. Deep in the Swamp.

Berkes, Marianne. Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef.

Duke, Kate. Twenty is Too Many.

Mannis, Celeste. One Leaf Rides the Wind.

Tang, Greg. Math Appeal.

Walton, Rick. One More Bunny: Adding From One to Ten.

Wise, William. Ten Sly Piranhas.

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