Let’s take a moment to recognise Naidoc week and celebrate
with an Australian counting book.
An Australian 1, 2, 3 of Animals by Bronwyn Bancroft (a
descendant of the Bundjalung people of New South Wales) is one of my favourite
books for introducing doubles and near doubles. It is illustrated using
aboriginal-style designs and stands in its own right as a beautiful picture
book. As a counting book it is also very clever, creating double page spreads
of very clear double and near double designs. Every double-page spread has
either a double or a near double associated with it as shown on the double page
spread for eleven.
This makes it an ideal inspiration for students to create their
own similar double page spreads for any number of their choosing, emphasizing
doubles and near doubles.
Unlike many other counting books this one does not stop at
ten, it goes to 15 providing opportunities for exploring some of those teen numbers
that prove to be so difficult for students to understand. Teen numbers have
been very much at the forefront of our thinking lately. Many students need more
time to explore how numbers between 10 and 20 work and to partition them in
many different ways. With this in mind we have a new eBook package available at
our website - and it also features the number eleven.
An Australian 1, 2, 3 of Animals is published by Little Hare Books and is available from the iTunes store in a format that you can share with your class on your iPad.
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