Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi! (Storytelling Math)

by Art Coulson (Author) Madelyn Goodnight (Illustrator)

Reading Level: K − 1st Grade

Celebrate diversity, math, and the power of storytelling!

Bo wants to find the perfect container to show off his traditional marbles for the Cherokee national Holiday. It needs to be just the right size: big enough to fit all the marbles, but not too big to fit in his family's booth at the festival for the Cherokee National Holiday. And it needs to look good! With his grandmother's help, Bo tries many containers until he finds just the right one. 

A playful exploration of volume and capacity featuring Native characters and a glossary of Cherokee words. Storytelling Math celebrates children using math in their daily adventures as they play, build, and discover the world around them. Joyful stories and hands-on activities make it easy for kids and their grown-ups to explore everyday math together. Developed in collaboration with math experts at STEM education nonprofit TERC, under a grant from the Heising-Simons Foundation.

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This fun, math-inspired story will empower children to keep trying until they succeed.

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 Everybody seeking math books for kids should invest in the Storytelling Math series. Look, Grandma! Ni, Elisi! is one entry in the series, introducing spatial concepts like volume and area in the tale of a Cherokee boy named Bo determining how to show off his traditional marbles for the Cherokee National Holiday. The book incorporates Cherokee words while it also demonstrates the kind of mathematical thinking kids can do in their own lives. Other entries in the series investigate concepts like division, estimation, measurement, and more.
—Book Riot
Art Coulson
Art Coulson is Cherokee from Oklahoma and comes from a family of storytellers. Some of his earliest memories are of listening to stories and reading books on his grandmother's lap. Art now writes his own books for young readers, including Unstoppable: How Jim Thorpe and the Carlisle Indian School Football Team Defeated Army. He lives with his family in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Madelyn Goodnight is a member of the Chickasaw Nation, whose work reflects her love of childhood. She holds a degree from Rhode Island School of design and lives in Brooklyn. She is the illustrator of The Pear Tree. www.madelyngoodnight.com
Classification
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781623542030
Lexile Measure
530
Guided Reading Level
-
Publisher
Charlesbridge Publishing
Publication date
August 03, 2021
Series
Storytelling Math
BISAC categories
JUV011040 - Juvenile Fiction | People & Places | United States - Native American
JUV032040 - Juvenile Fiction | Sports & Recreation | Games - General
JUV072000 - Juvenile Fiction | Mathematics
Library of Congress categories
Indians of North America
Oklahoma
Cherokee Indians
Marbles (Game objects)
Volume (Cubic content)

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