Table of Contents
1. Mathematics 2. Story 3.Threading Play in a Mathematical way 4. Picture Books: Meaningful Mathematical Contexts 5. Oral Mathematical Story: Moving from Picture Books to Oral Mathematical Story 6. Oral Mathematical Story: Possibilities 7. Oral Mathematical Story: Large and Small groups 8. Puppets and Props: Mathematical Stories in their Making 9. Children as Mathematical Storytellers 10. Crafting and telling Oral Mathematical Stories 11. Conclusion 12. Appendix 13. Appendix one: Mathematical Observation 14.Appendix two: Story Profile template 15. Appendix three: Story profile ‘Handa’s Surprise’ by Eileen Browne 16. Appendix four: Story profile ‘Little Lumpty’ by Miko Imai 17. Appendix five: Story profile ‘The Doorbell’ by Pat Hutchins 18. Appendix six: Tabulated Observation framework 19. Appendix seven: Analysis of mathematical observation ‘Jake retelling Ladybird on a Leaf’ 20. Appendix eight: Moving from Picture Books to Oral Mathematical Storytelling 21. Appendix nine: ‘How to make a gorilla hand puppet’ 22. References 23. Index