

By sharing your experience with us, you will be added to our team of On-line Contributors here, where you can also find our submission guideline. Thus, we are inviting you to share your experience of how you have used this story in your mathematics lesson with other members of the community. Owl’s Bakery’ could be used to introduce the concept of skip counting to children aged 5+ years old.Īt, we believe that stories can be meaningfully incorporated in mathematics teaching in different ways. Like most titles in this series, the book comes with a few mathematical word problems relating to the story to be solved at the end of the story. the mathematical focus of the story) seems somewhat limited. The story itself is quite humorous with a moral message, but opportunities to learn and practise skip counting (i.e. Whether this advice works can be found at the end of the story. Owl follows the fox’s advice and put five cinnamon doughnut holes on each skewer, and ten sugar doughnut holes on each skewer. Owl to put the two types of doughnut holes onto a skewer so that they would be hard to be stolen. Owl knows something is not right as the former are normally sold in bags of five and the former in bags of ten. When only four cinnamon doughnut holes and nine sugar doughnut holes start to remain at the end of each of his business days, Mr. Owl who prepares 50 cinnamon doughnut holes and 100 sugar doughnut holes to sell everyday. The English translation of this original South Korean version was done in 2016. Owl’s Bakery’ is part of the world’s largest mathematical story picture book series, called TanTan Math Story (70+ titles). book author, Ji-hyeon Kim has had many books published with good stories and strong educational content.
