THE WING WING BROTHERS CARNIVAL DE MATH

The Wing Wing Brothers Carnival de Math
Posted by Isabel Prieto

Title:  The Wing Wing brothers Carnival de Math
Author and Illustrator : Ethan Long
Recommended Grade Level: Kindergarten and 1st Grade

CCSSM: K.CC. 4, K.CC4b Counting and Cardinality
Count to tell the number of objects.

Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.
Compare numbers. 

Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.

CCSSM: 1.NBT.4, 1.NBT.6  Numbers and Operations in Base Ten
Use place value understanding and properties of operations to add and subtract.

Add within 100, including adding a two-digit number and a one-digit number, and adding a two-digit number and a multiple of 10, using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used. Understand that in adding two-digit numbers, one adds tens and tens, ones and ones; and sometimes it is necessary to compose a ten.
Subtract multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 from multiples of 10 in the range 10-90 (positive or zero differences), using concrete models or drawings and strategies based on place value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and subtraction; relate the strategy to a written method and explain the reasoning used.

CCSS. Math Practice. MP2 Reason abstractly and quantitatively

Summary:  Those wacky birds, the Wing Wing brothers, are back and running amok at the carnival!
 Readers will have a terrific time laughing at their antics as the brothers show off their strength, down hot dogs in a wiener war, and go for the ride of their lives on the Wedgie Wheel. All the while they will be learning about counting, adding, and subtracting by tens.

Rating:    ( 4 )

This book includes real life examples in an amusement park setting of how we can add and subtract by 10s and counting by 10s.  It offers visual representations of addition and subtraction equations.  Though the book is colorful, amusing and full of examples, it seems long and repetitive.

Classroom Ideas

I can use this book to plan lessons about subtraction and addition by 10s and counting by tens in the lower grades (Kindergarten and 1st grade).  I can also use it for a multiplication lesson (multiples of 10) or commutative and associate properties.