Joe Can Count

Title: Joe Can Count

Posted By Marsha Atkins

Author and Illustrator: Jan Ormerod

Recommended Grade Level: Birth – 1^st Grade

CCSS Math: 4.    Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

a.            When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

b.            Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

c.             Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.

5.            Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration;

CCSS Math: (1) Students develop strategies for adding and subtracting whole numbers based on their prior work with small numbers. They use a variety of models, including discrete objects and length-based models (e.g., cubes connected to form lengths), to model add-to, take-from, put-together, take-apart, and compare situations to develop meaning for the operations of addition and subtraction, and to develop strategies to solve arithmetic problems with these operations. Students understand connections between counting and addition and subtraction (e.g., adding two is the same as counting on two). They use properties of addition to add whole numbers and to create and use increasingly sophisticated strategies based on these properties (e.g., “making tens”) to solve addition and subtraction problems within

20. By comparing a variety of solution strategies, children build their Understanding of the relationship between addition and subtraction.

Summary: This book is about Joe counting a variety of objects. It has the images of the amount of objects that coincide with the number it is relational to.

Rating: 5 Stars. This book is visually engaging for young children to get an understanding of numbers to use as future connections for counting, addition and subtraction.

Classroom Ideas: This book can be used to teach mathematical concepts like number sequence, grouping objects and number name reference. You can read the book to the children and point out the number of objects there are that represent the number you are teaching. You can have the children do simple math and add the two numbers together to solve simple addition problems or to apply the same for subtraction. I love this book and hope you do as well.