The Great Math Bottle Battle Essay

The Great Math Tattle Battle is written by Anne Bowen and illustrated by Jamie Zollars in a fictional way. It starts off with one of the main characters, Harley Harrison being the best math student in the second grade. Throughout the story he keeps writing notes to his teacher, Mr. Hall, tattling on other students. He does this in an unusual way. Within his notes he uses math problems, usually addition. For example he tells on one of the other students and says he steals different amounts of erasers from the class each day. He writes down how many the other student takes each day and adds them up to tell his teacher the total amount were stolen by this person in the entire week. He continues doing this until a new student shows up who thinks
The work is shown out and all of the additions are correct. The book’s mathematics content is visible and effectively present throughout the entire story. Addition is clearly shown on almost every page and the diagrams and written work to solve each problem is also shown as part of the illustration. The student’s actual worksheets and notes are drawn out so readers can clue into his thinking process while working on them. For these reasons I would give it a 5 in this category as well. The book’s mathematics content is intellectually and developmentally appropriate for its audience of second graders. Along with being about addition it also discusses the topic of working together, and knowing the difference between tattling and telling when things need to be told. This is a huge topic for students in early elementary school. I would give it a 5 for this. I would give it a rating of a 4 for the category of the book facilitating the reader’s involvement in, and use and transfer of, its mathematics. It is good but it doesn’t have any problems for the students to figure out or any activities that specifically go with it like the percentage book did above. The book’s mathematics and story complement each other well, a 5 for that as well. It can relate the addition to the story and make it fiction and not just straight facts. It makes it more