Blog Post 3

1. For my blog post I decided to choose the book Bigger, Better, Best! By Stuart J. Murphy.  This picture book is about three siblings who argue about who has the nicest things.  Their family moves into a new home and each child got a new room which starts a new argument: Who has the bigger, better, and/or best room?  In conclusion no one won the argument, but they were able to determine who had the largest room by finding the area of each room.

2. Like mentioned before the picture book uses area to see which child who has the largest room.  Each room is square so  the way they found the area is the children multiplied the number of sheets on their wall(sheets where placed on the floor for the perimeter and on the walls) by the size of the room. Once they found the area they were able to determine who had the biggest.

3. I think that the book Bigger, Better, Best! does a great job at describing how to find the area and would be a great tool to be used in class. Not only does it allow the people to learn a mathematical concept but you get to learn it in a fun way! You learn and you don't even realize it because you are enjoying a book!