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Related Activities to Try at Home

[2] More Than [3] Find opportunities to pose questions like the following: “I have 2 pennies in my left pocket. I have three more pennies in my right pocket than I have in my left pocket. How many pennies are in my right pocket?” Keep the numbers small, and act out the problems together to solve them.

Math and Literature Here are some suggestions of children's books that are related to our work on data.

Burningham, John. Would You Rather

Harris, Trudy. Tally Cat Keeps Track.

Leedy, Lorren. The Great Graph Contest.

Murphy, Stuart J. Tally O'Malley.


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Investigations 3 in Number, Data, and Space®, Student Activity Book Unit 1 Building Numbers and Solving Story Problems Unit 2 Comparing and Combining Shapes Unit 3 How Many of Each? How Many in All? Unit 4 Fish Lengths and Fraction Rugs Unit 5 Number Games and Crayon Problems Unit 6 Would You Rather Be an Eagle or a Whale? Unit 7 How Many Tens? How Many Ones? Unit 8 Blocks and Buildings