The Doorbell Rang

Literature was integrated into the math problem solving lesson.  The book, The Doorbell Rang, was used to help the students better understand division and its use in the real world.  In the story two children have 12 cookies to share between them.  Then two more friends come. Now there are 4 children to share 12 cookies.  Then two more children come to share the twelve cookies.  Now there are 6 children to share the twelve cookies.  At the end, there are 12 children to share  12 cookies.  After reading the story, the students acted out the story using counters. The students also wrote the division number model sentence to go with the problem.  The students drew an illustration for each problem and shared their illustrations with the class.