Date Your Name AAUW Branch Phone number Email address

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DateYour NameAAUW BranchPhone numberEmail
address
On the index card please PRINT the following
information. These cards will be used as part of
a raffle during the presentation.

• On the pink sticky note
• 1. first name
• 2. a guess for the amount of money in the jar
  being passed around!
• Please write the number in LARGE digits.

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Presenter Irene KeyesPoughkeepsie Branch AAUW,
Inc.Why I like Lets Read Math

• Its fun
• Inexpensive
• Easy to do
• Promotes MATH for children at an early age

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What is the project about?

• Reading wonderful books to children.

• Doing fun math activities
  related to the book.

• Consider the potential

• Build literacy.

• Build math skills.

Reading Math ?
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Where did this get started?
Lets Read MathJ started as a community outreach
project of the Makefield Area Branch of AAUW!
In October 2004, Dr. Claire Passantino and AAUW
volunteers began doing workshops at the local
library in Yardley, PA.
. and why?
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I hate math, I always hated math, I never could
do math!
I hate reading, I always hated reading, I never
could read anything!!
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I hate swimming, I always hated swimming, I cant
swim! Im afraid of the water!
Just as you would not say this to a child.
Please do not make statements about hating math
and reading to a child.
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GOALS for Lets Read Math

• Build positive attitudes about math.
• Encourage children to read, and parents to read
  with children.
• Help them understand enjoy math.
• Promote family involvement.

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Ways your branch can use Lets Read Math!
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LRM Lesson Format

• Pre-Activity
• Read the Book
• Do the Math
• Wrap it Up

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You get the idea!
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Race to make 1
Alternate Activities
Make a bank
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How much does LRM cost? As little as 1 or As
much as you want to spend!
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Story Books
Funbooks
The Pieces
Manipulatives
Workshops
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Raffle
Funbook 1 Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last
Sunday, by Judith Viorst (money)
Funbook 2 The Sundae Scoop,
by Stuart J. Murphy (combinations)
Funbook A One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab, by
April Pulley Sayre Jeff Sayre (number sense)
Advanced Funbook 1 Sir Cumference the Sword in
the Cone, by Cindy Neuschwander (geometry)
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AAUW Special Starter Kit
or
Funbook 1 Workshop Manual
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Reading Math ?
What questions do YOU have?
www.letsreadmath.com