Miss Penny Says Prove It!
Miss Penny Says Prove It! is one volume in a series of instructional math stories designed to help parents, teachers and students Calm, Command and Conquer the Curriculum®. By integrating a simple story with a detailed learning strategy, the Math MileMarkers® books help build strong foundational skills and a deeper understanding of the math concepts embedded within.
The Math MileMarkers® products and services focus on the needs of learners from Pre-K to Grade 5. We want children to explore mathematical concepts through engaging characters, great visual models and hands-on activities.
Miss Penny’s lively class seeks to find out how many marbles Bobby could possibly have packed into his back pocket. In their quest for an answer, the class encounters important topics such as quantitative understanding of numbers, estimation, counting strategies, and much more.
Companion activities—including MileMarkers “Math Talk”, which outlines the big ideas presented in each story, and Storyboard Templates, which provide a framework for children to “Retell or Recreate” one of our stories using their own selection of numbers or key ideas—are available at www.mathmilemarkers.com. These storybased projects and conversation prompts help children interact with the content and vocabulary, and bring the math standards to life in a meaningful way.
The Math MileMarkers® stories and games are the perfect way to help young children build confidence and connect ideas. Please allow us to join you on your mathematical journey. Together we can make learning math fun!
Louie the Lucky Looker
Louie the Lucky Looker is a math-infused story that explores the concept of division and so much more. Louie, a young boy with supersonic eyesight, along with his number navigator friend Jayla, set out on a mission to find a missing puppy. As their adventure unfolds and Louie’s collection of friends grows, the children find themselves secretly calculating and recalculating their equal share of the reward money.
Math MileMarkers® is excited to invite young readers to join Louie on his mission and to retell, recreate and talk about the math within this story with their friends. With relatable characters and beautiful illustrations, this upbeat story presents a perfect opportunity to explore multiple ways to divide whole numbers and naturally
prompts great math discussions.
Louie the Lucky Looker is the 5th standards-based story in the Math MileMarkers® children’s book series. Incorporating storytelling into the curriculum is an effective way to help children interact with math vocabulary and content, and brings the curriculum to life in a meaningful way. Free companion activities for this and other books in the series can be found at www.mathmilemarkers.com
Please allow Math MileMarkers® to join you on your mathematical journey. Together we can make learning math fun! www.mathmilemarkers.com
Math MileMarkers® Foldable Stories:
Math MileMarkers® is proud to introduce a new collection of foldable stories for young learners. These 8-page, standards-based mini books are designed to help children retell, recreate and talk about math in meaningful ways.
Each story is infused with mathematical concepts and vocabulary. They are the perfect way to integrate literacy and mathematics, and spark meaningful mathematical conversations at home or school. Children are invited to read and reread these stories with others or independently, and then color and cut their own take-along copy. Math Stories provide opportunities for children to talk through and make sense of the math within each story. Students also use the Math MileMarkers® storytelling templates provided to create and share their own math stories, or explore the story with new numbers, symbols and pictures.
The Math MileMarkers® Foldables are a perfect curriculum companion and math confidence builder. With conversation prompts, visual support, and opportunities for critical thinking and problem-solving embedded within each story, you will quickly discover how powerful and enjoyable math storytelling can be for children.
Charlie in Fraction City: Children's Instructional Story
Children's Instructional Story/Math Talk Activities: Charlie in Fraction City is the latest children’s story in the Math MileMarkers® book series. This cheerful story uncovers the secret to an in-depth understanding of the concept of fractions.Math MileMarkers has created an endearing story that addresses some of the foundational skills introduced in the Number and Operations-Fractions and related strands from grades K to 5. In this adventure, a group of lively soon to be unit fractions set out to find their place as part of a whole. Charlie, a highly recognized whole club president, is there to help each fractional piece understand what it takes to be a unit fraction. In doing so, these fractional characters uncover key terms in the fraction world and learn that they really don’t know their true value until they find their place as part of a whole. Charlie in Fraction City is one volume in a series of instructional math stories designed to help parents, teachers and students Calm, Command and Conquer the Curriculum®. By integrating a simple story with a detailed learning strategy, the Math MileMarkers® books help build strong foundational skills and a deeper understanding of the math concepts that are embedded within. The Math MileMarkers® products and services focus on the needs of learners from Pre-K to Grade 5. We want children to explore mathematical concepts using interesting characters, great visual models and hands-on activities to guide their discovery. Companion activities including MileMarkers “Math Talk”; which outlines the big ideas presented in each story, and Storyboard Templates; which provide a framework for children to “Retell or Recreate” one of our stories using their own selection of numbers or key ideas, are available at www.mathmilemarkers.com. These story-based projects and conversation prompts, help children interact with the content and vocabulary, and bring the math standards to life in a meaningful way. Math MileMarkers® stories and games are the perfect way to help young children build confidence and connect ideas. Grades 2-6
Jayla the Number Navigator
Math MileMarkers® is proud to present Jayla, the Number Navigator.
This mathematical story introduces young readers to Jayla, a young girl with a superpower. Jayla is a Number Navigator. She can navigate the number line, jumping from any number found on a hundred chart to 100 in two jumps or fewer.
With New York City as her backdrop, Jayla highlights the landmarks and numbers she sees and uses them to show off her special talent. As thestory unfolds, Jayla reveals the secret behind her powers: her mastery of the combinations that make 10.
Readers are invited into the story and challenged to test their own Number Navigator skills. Math MileMarkers® offers “math talk” suggestions and provides visual models that can be downloaded free from www.mathmilemarkers.com.
The hundred chart and open number line serve as tools that keep students actively involved as the story unfolds and provide support as they create math stories of their own.
Jayla, the Number Navigator is the fourth book in the Math MileMarkers® series.
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On My Way to Grandma's House
On My Way to Grandma’s House is one volume in a series of instructional math stories designed to help parents, teachers and students Calm, Command and Conquer the Curriculum®. By integrating a simple story with a detailed learning strategy, the Math MileMarkers® books help build strong foundational skills and a deeper understanding of the math concepts embedded within. The Math MileMarkers® products and services focus on the needs of learners from Pre-K to Grade 5. We want children to explore mathematical concepts through engaging characters, great visual models and hands-on activities. At first glance, our story about Lily River and the adventures she has trying to get to her grandmother’s house, seems to focus primarily on the concept of rounding numbers, a standard identified in the Number and Base Ten content standards found in grades 3, 4 and 5. However, rather than looking at rounding as an isolated skill, Math Mile-Markers uses this opportunity to encourage teachers and children to explore using the number line as a tool for rounding numbers in places they may never have been before. Think about it: how often do children have the opportunity to “play” on a number line that stretches to the nearest ten thousand or to the nearest thousandth? Companion activities—including MileMarkers “Math Talk”, which outlines the big ideas presented in each story, and Storyboard Templates, which provide a framework for children to “Retell or Recreate” one of our stories using their own selection of numbers or key ideas—are available at www.mathmilemarkers.com. These storybased projects and conversation prompts help children interact with the content and vocabulary, and bring the math standards to life in a meaningful way. The Math MileMarkers® stories and games are the perfect way to help young children build confidence and connect ideas. Please allow us to join you on your mathematical journey. Together we can make learning math fun! www.mathmilemarkers.com