Abstract/Summary

Over the past year alone, I have run training workshops on the use of story picture books as a mathematics teaching and learning tool for over 600 in- and pre-service teachers throughout the UK. A common preconception that I came across in these workshops is “Stories are something you find in Literacy lessons. Why should they be integrated into Mathematics lessons?!” I hope this brief article will help to answer this question, but first let’s get to know a bit more about story picture books that can be used in mathematics teaching and learning. (For the sake of brevity, they will now be referred to as mathematical story picture books henceforth)