Instead of just counting the animals on the pages and giving facts about the animals on the pages, the students made graphs, tables and classified the animals by habitat. The students made tables and graphs on various numbers of legs on insects. This activity proved successful for this age group as well. The article concludes by giving more useful science and math books. It goes on to explain that science and math are a natural connection to use in teaching.
Literature is one of the easiest ways to accomplish the task of integrating math and science.
This article was very useful and had a lot of good lesson ideas. Teaching Children Mathematics, Fleege, Pamela O. Oct. 2000, Vol. 7, p.74.