Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes


Title: Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes

Author and Illustrator: Kimberly and James Dean

Recommended Grade Level: Kindergarten through 2nd Grade

Common Core Standards Addressed:

CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4 
Model with mathematics.
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP8Look for and express regularity in repeated reasoning.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4
Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.A
When counting objects, say the number names in the standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with one and only one object.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4.B
Understand that the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangement or the order in which they were counted.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CCB.5
Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.

Summary: Pete the Cat and the Missing Cupcakes is about a cupcake party in which Pete the Cat baked cupcakes for. At first there was only 10 cupcakes but suddenly two disappeared. When Pete the Cat went to look for clues and to ask if anyone had taken two cupcakes, but no one knew. Every time he went to count the cupcakes, another two would disappear.  At the end, all cupcakes were missing but at last they found the clue who lead to the suspect which was the frog. Frog apologized and to make it up he baked cupcakes for everyone!

Rating: ***** I would rate this book a 5 because it is a great book for y0oung children who are learning subtraction. The characters in the book are animals which children love, so being that the animals are having a party really engages children especially with the wonderful illustrations.


Classroom Ideas: This book can be used to teach children to subtract by two’s starting from 10. Children will be able to count 1-10 throughout the book. It can also help students count by twos. A activity can be done as a lesson is have children cut out cupcake figures and subtract numbers other than two. Since the base of the story is the number ten, then children can subtract for example 3 and have the result of seven.


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