Jacqueline is one of the nation’s favourite authors, and her books are loved and cherished by young readers not only in the UK but all over the world. The Story of Tracy Beaker won the 2002 Blue Peter People’s Choice Award. The Illustrated Mum won the Guardian Children’s Fiction Award, the 1999 Children’s Book of the Year at the British Book Awards and was also shortlisted for the 1999 Whitbread Children’s Book Award.ĭouble Act won the prestigious Smarties Medal and the Children’s Book Award as well as being highly commended for the Carnegie Medal. Since then Jacqueline has been on countless awards shortlists and has gone on to win many awards. This was also the first of her books to be illustrated by Nick Sharratt. One of Jacqueline’s most successful and enduring creations has been the famous Tracy Beaker, who first appeared in 1991 in The Story of Tracy Beaker. As a teenager she started work for a magazine publishing company and then went on to work as a journalist on Jackie magazine (which she was told was named after her!) before turning to writing novels full-time. She always wanted to be a writer and wrote her first ‘novel’ when she was nine, filling in countless Woolworths’ exercise books as she grew up. If you’d like to receive these magical math book posts each Monday, be sure to follow this blog in the side bar of this page.Jacqueline Wilson was born in Bath in 1945, but spent most of her childhood in Kingston-on-Thames. Which stories are you reading today for #mathstorytellingday? Share in the comments or go to Shared booklist for instructions. It invites children to participate in the sharing of the beans and mathematizing the story in a way that makes sense to them. What makes this book #mathbookmagic in my opinion is that it leaves room for questions like these. While I read this story with my children, Liam (7) and Siena (5), it feel like a true sharing of ideas.
What I love about McElligott’s work is his ability to weave mathematical concepts into his stories in an authentic way. Where did bean 13 go? Is it magic? Is there a mathematical way to track that bean? There are 13 beans on the left, and 12 on the right (after the two pieces marked A and B are swapped, you’ll need to zoom in on the pictures to see the A and B). My kids and I especially enjoyed The Disappearing Bean activity posted (see images below, we taped the printed sheet to card stock). On his website, McElligott suggests accompanying activities to share in the classroom and at home. Should Rocco get two too? … but there’s that unlucky bean 13 again. The bugs end up inviting Rocco over, but they don’t want to give him all 3 leftovers. Now each bug gets two beans each and there are 3 beans leftover!
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4 × 3 + 1 Ralph, Flora, April & Joe get 3 beans each, plus 1 unlucky bean 13 leftoverīut it gets worse when Meg joins the mix.3 × 4 + 1 Ralph, Flora and April get 4 beans each, plus 1 unlucky bean 13 leftover.2 × 6 + 1 Ralph and Flora get 6 beans each, plus 1 unlucky bean 13 leftover.Here are some equations describing the sharing in the story: Sharing thirteen beans between two, three, four and later five bugs involves the concepts of division, odd and even numbers, and the primeness of the number 13. Will they solve their bean-sharing problem? Or will they be stuck withcursed bean thirteen forever? But no matter how they try, there is always at least one bean left over.
In an effort to make bean thirteen disappear, they invite their friends over to share beans. Flora fails to heed Ralph’s warning and now they are stuck with it.
Ralph warns Flora about picking unlucky bean thirteen. The main characters are two bugs Ralph and Flora. McElligott’s bright bug illustrations are the perfect compliment to this delightful bean-sharing story. Cover of Bean Thirteen, which is also available on However, my son Liam was familiar with the book, exclaiming “I LOVE that book!” as soon as I pulled it out to read. I first learned about this book while exploring McElligott’s website for last week’s post. And this week you’ll be seeing double, since I’ve chosen a book by the same author.īean Thirteen was written and illustrated by Matthew McElligott. Last week pick was the Lion’s Share, a tale about doubling and halving.
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