MOUSE COUNT
Author: Ellen Stoll Walsh
Illustrator: Ellen Stoll Walsh
Number of pages: 28
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (USA) First published in: 1991 Format: Picturebook Is the mathematical focus explicit in the story? Yes Is this story part of a mathematics story series? No Preview and/or purchase this book on the Amazon websites: UK, USA, AUS, IND, CAN Synopsis by the author/publisher
A hungry snake finds ten little mice and counts them into a jar for dinner. One, two, three ... But the clever mice are clever as well as "little, warm, and tasty," and they soon outwit the snake and "uncount" themselves - ten, nine, eight ... |
“And while he was gone, the mice rocked the jar one way, and another way, until over it went. "Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one." The little mice uncounted themselves and ran home.”
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Relevant mathematics topics:
Counting forwards to and backwards from 10/20
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Recommended age range:
4 years old +
Relevant mathematics topics:
Counting forwards to and backwards from 10/20
Possible teaching activities:
At MathsThroughStories.org, we believe that stories can be meaningfully incorporated in mathematics teaching in different ways. Thus, we are inviting you to share your experience of how you have used this story in your mathematics lesson with other members of the community. By sharing your experience with us, you will be added to our team of On-line Contributors here, where you can also find our submission guideline.