In this episode of our Literacy Across the Curriculum series we visit with learning consultant and mathematics wizard (in our opinion) Jackie Ratkovic. Jackie shares a number of titles and talks us through how each book can be used to support students k-12 (mostly elementary) in their development of skills and understanding in Math.

Jackie outlines how books used in class fall into three categories:

Text Dependent: You need to understand the math to understand the book

Idea Enhancing: Books do not depend on a previous understanding of math and help connect and expand on the concepts.

Illustration Exploring: Books that contain pictures, drawings, and diagrams within the story that help pull out those important space and shape connections that are very much a part of mathematics.

Jackie emphasizes that "When you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

A full list of the books and other links can be found on the episode blog post link.

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