Inspiring Children’s Mathematical Activity Through Contact With a Picture Book
Inspiring Children’s Mathematical Activity Through Contact With a Picture Book

Summary/Abstract: Children’s literature has a cognitive value and is a source of aestheticexperiences. Picture books with mathematical content are a specialtype of children’s books. The study aims to show that picture bookswhere mathematical text is combined with images in an aestheticform provide impulses to create educational situations that inspiremathematical activity. Based on the classification of mathematicalactivity by Ewa Kozak-Czyżewska, we developed our methodologicalproposals for stimulating creative and imitative mathematicalactivity in children. These suggestions are presented on the basis ofour work with two books: Numbers written by Jacek Cygan and Atour house written by Isabel Minhós Martins and Madalena Matoso.For the purpose of this study, educational classes with the use ofmathematical literary texts were conducted for six-year-old childrenin kindergarten. It has been shown that picture books can inspirecreative and imitative mathematical activity in children. By providingpositive experiences, these texts can support the processes of learningmathematics, awaken children’s motivation to calculate and usemathematics in everyday life. The presented study may be used asa model of working with picture books with mathematical contentin kindergarten.

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