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Jackie Baldwin jackie@story-lovers.com
Kate Dudding kate@katedudding.com
A Little-Used Art of Teaching: The Case of Storytelling by David E. Meel, Deborah Gyurko and Michelle Gaspar
Mathematics Teacher, v100 n1 p64-68 Aug 2006
Keywords: elementary education, middle school
ABSTRACT
This article discusses the art of storytelling as a means of introducing new mathematics topics. Telling a mathematically-based story can be a break from the routine and can serve as literary mnemonics full of mental imagery that helps students recall in problem-solving steps. The authors provide a certain story that has been tried by several teachers and discuss how to develop others.