Support for long-term classroom planning and professional development. Information covering important topics for today's educators and parents. This workbook, for grades 3 and 4, contains nine multicultural collections of fairy tales and folk tales, along with related math activities that involve thinking skills. The tales allow children to visit every continent. The collections include trickster tales, humorous stories, and yarns of love, sacrifice, and bravery.
Readers meet an evil magician, a wicked witch, a flying horse, and a clever giantess.
Each tale is followed by four or more thought-provoking problems that focus on strategies and use manipulatives. In one tale, a girl's kind heart and generous nature help her to escape from an evil witch. She decides to create a spell repellent so that she never has to worry about that witch again. The repellent must have exactly 100 centiliters of liquid composed of at least six different ingredients. The problem is to pick the right amount of each liquid so that she has a perfect repellent.