For today’s project I tried a little challenge – I had my younger son read the first chapter in the wonderful book Count like and Egyptian and then we talked about what he learned. Here’s the book and and link to Evelyn Lamb’s review of it:
Evelyn Lamb’s review of Count like an Egyptian
The goal for today was more for him to talk through what he learned as opposed to getting the math details right. We definitely had a few stumbles, but it was still fun and the multiplication and division ideas are really neat.
Here’s the introduction to the book and the arithmetic ideas:
Next I asked my son to talk through a few multiplication problems:
Finally we wrapped up a division problem.
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