Mat and the Peach Pit – A Story About Up and Down

Description

Digital high-quality illustrated storybook plus free Educator Guide. Suitable for children aged 5–9.

Mat and the Peach Pit is a warm, imaginative story for young children that introduces the mathematical ideas of up, down, above, below, higher and lower through actual experience, movement and wonder.

When Mat, the little math mouse, discovers a peach pit, he begins to notice the world in a new way. Things fall down. Trees grow up. Roots reach into the earth. Shoots rise towards the light. Through Mat’s small adventure, children are invited to experience direction, position, growth, balance and change before these ideas become formal mathematical language.

Instead of starting with abstract symbols, children first encounter mathematics through story, image, movement, nature and relationship. In this way, early mathematical understanding can grow from something the child has already seen, felt and imagined.

Mat and the Peach Pit is suitable for children aged approximately 5–9 and can be enjoyed at home, in the classroom, or as part of a homeschooling rhythm. It can be read interactively with younger children, while children aged 8 and older may also enjoy reading it independently.

The story is especially useful for parents, teachers and homeschoolers who want to nurture early spatial awareness, observation, language development and foundational mathematical thinking in a dynamic and accessible way.

It also comes with a free Educator Guide, filled with activities and games to help children explore the directional and spatial themes in the story more deeply.

After successful payment, the storybook and Educator Guide will be delivered by download link on the order confirmation page and/or by email.

Product details:
High-quality PDF file
300 DPI illustrations
Fully illustrated
Printable A4
Includes free Educator Guide

Prefer a printed copy? The Amazon print edition of Mat and the Peach Pit is also available from the Sacred Mathematics shop.