One Zillion Valentines

Author: Frank Modell

Publisher/Date: Greenwillow Books,1981

ISBN: 0-688-07329-8

Grade Levels Recommended for Use: 6-8

Brief Summary: Valentines are for everybody, but you have to give them to receive them. Two friends, Marvin and Milton, make one zillion valentines -- more than enough for everyone in the neighborhood. Their plan to get valentines works, but not quite in the way they expected.

Topics: symmetry, similarity, congruent, translation (slide), reflection (mirror image), and rotation (turn)

Suggested Activities:

1. Introduce the story One Zillion Valentines and read it to the students.
2. Review mathematics vocabulary words such as symmetry, similarity, congruent, translation (slide), refraction (flip), reflection (mirror image), and rotation (to turn).
3. Have students draw several sizes and shapes of hearts to demonstrate symmetry, similarity, congruent, translation, reflection, and rotation using their heart shapes.
5. Students may create their own valentines to give someone special.
6. All students will draw circles using a compass and measure squares to create a woven valentine heart shaped card.