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=== From kindergarten on, children are taught to read. As they grow up, so does their reading ability and contents of choice, but the act of reading is ever present in their education and their everyday life. That is, everywhere but the mathematics classroom. ===

=== There are so many picture and storybooks that instruct, with great clarity, various mathematical tasks and concepts. For all of the students that hate opening a math textbook because of the boring problems and pictures, why couldn’t a teacher bring in a colorful storybook?! ===

=== E specially within the world of geometry! There are so many resources that could be used as mentor texts for geometry concepts, such as: shapes, area, volume, 1D measurement, non-standard measurement, angle theorems, ect. ===

=== It is easy for teachers to just find colorful textbooks with exciting word problems, but there are also actual storybooks that have mathematical concepts. We, as teachers, need to be aware of the ways in which our students learn and how we can better them in the long run. Yes, there might not be a standardized question on the EOCT about Penny’s dog from //Measuring Penny//, but the overall cognitive concepts that are gleaned from going through these texts will help them in the real world. ===

=== Students would probably jump at the opportunity to look at picture books and find their own methods to incorporate mathematics into their own books they are reading. Next time they pick up //Percy Jackson//, they will formulate word problems within the concepts of the story. And then it could even snowball over to sports, look at that rhombus created by the bases of baseball! ===

=== Real world application is the top thing we want our students to walk away with, and bringing in texts does this perfectly! ===

=== We have found so many resources, examples and standards through various means of research - our hope is that this information will help make the dreams of having literature in the mathematics classrooms come true! ===