You Can Count on Mother Goose includes eleven books, a Family Activity Guide and a basic kit with materials such as math cards and dominoes. Children's literature provides a meaningful context for mathematics. It relates to a child's life and is able to address the element of fear and the lack of confidence often connected with math. Children's literature demonstrates that math develops out of human experience. Children's literature fosters the development of number sense.
Students are able to understand numbers beyond basic skills.
Children's literature helps to integrate mathematics into other curriculum areas, especially Language Arts. Important recommendations emphasized in these standards include early exposure to all aspects of mathematics and the application of math to real life situations. You Can Count on Mother Goose uses the ten major standards for pre-kindergarten to grade two as the foundation for the stories and activities which introduce problem solving, patterns and relationships, numbers and counting, shapes and spaces, and measuring. Rhode Island families will continue to hear Mother Goose asking how and why.