This is such a fun book to bring literacy into math. I love how the poems are set up like math equations or math concepts. This is such a fun way to bring these concepts to life through literature. ( )

A collection of poems written in the form of mathematical problems and grouped according to seasonal themes. ( )

A collection of poems using mathematical equations to represent each season. The language of the poems includes descriptive words about the seasons. The illustrations are rendered in watercolor and gouache. They are colorful and add to the story by accompanying the seasons. This book provides the opportunity to touch on science and math in classroom lessons.

Reading Level: Primary
Genre: Poetry

Everyday items, such as birds, flowers, snow,and ocean waves, are inserted into math problems with poetic flair. Using the everyday things that kids know helps to make math a little less frightening and foreign. ( )

This colorful poetry collection explores and celebrates the four seasons with short poems that use mathematical symbols, formats, and ideas. These visually stimulating poems are arranged by season, starting with fall and ending with summer. Salerno’s playful illustrations use broad brush strokes and swaths of color to create backgrounds that compliment, rather than overpower the poems. Although plot-less, the illustrations feature a young girl and her cat that experience the season along with the reader and serve to bring the separate poems together.

This delightful and creative collection of poems is an exercise in brevity and innovation. The emphasis is on choosing the perfect words and mathematical symbols to create equations and graphs. In many ways Franco poems can be viewed as mathematical rebuses, so share these poems visually as well as aurally. In addition to mathematics, Franco varies the font size to convey meaning in her bite-sized poems.

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