1. Click Your Heels 3 Times!
Using the Power of Storytelling
to Bring Math Concepts Home
• Tina Rohde and Colleen Shaskin
• WonderWeavers - Storytellers
• www.wonderweavers.com
2. Math is Stories are
more than more than
numbers! words!
4. Storytelling and Story Listening!
• Builds relationships and
creates community
• Is interactive
• Increases comprehension and
prediction skills
• Exercises imagination
• Entertains
• Increases language and
reinforces math skills
7. A Baby’s Brain
• 100,000,000,000
neurons at birth
• Each has about 10,000
dendrites (branches)
• 1,000,000,000,000,000
possible configurations
• 17% of the neurons are
wired at birth
9. What Children Need for
Language Development
• Enriched environment
• Secure environment
• Loving environment
• Conversation
• Exploration
• Limited TV
10. 600 words/ hour 1200 words/ hour 2100 words/ hour
Our words make a positive difference
in a child’s life!
13. Standards of Math
from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics
• Thinking Math • Content Math
• Problem Solving
• Communications • Patterns and Relationships
• Reasoning • Number Sense & Numeration
• Connections
• Geometry and Spatial Sense
• Measurement
• Fractions
• Estimation
• Statistics and Probability
14. Thinking Math
• Problem Solving
• Communications
• Reasoning
• Connections
Problem Solving is key in being able to do all other aspects of math.
Storytelling and story play stimulate children to use
all of the Thinking Math skills
15. Content Math
• Patterns and Relationships
• Number Sense & Numeration
• Geometry and Spatial Sense
• Measurement
• Fractions
• Estimation
• Statistics and Probability
22. Statistics and Probability
Minutes/Day
70 •Using graphs and charts
60
•Statistics tells the stories about our
50
world
40
•Probabilities tell the likelihood of
30
something occurring
20
10
0
98th 80th 50th 20th
percentile percentile percentile percentile
Reading Outside School
23. Putting it all together!
Using a story across the
math curriculum
24. Use What You Know!
• Playing with Math and Story
26. Click your heals three times…
• Make learning fun for you and for your students.
• Hands on learning experiences work best.
• The things we do each day shape children’s lives and
build strong foundations for their future.