The Number Nine

Concept (nonfiction), 36 words Grade K

The book The Number Nine models how to relate the numeral 9 and the word nine. The book focuses on a baseball team and uses baseball equipment to introduce different visual groups of nine. By looking at photographs with recognizable groups, students will further develop number sense by identifying a set of 9 as nine. They will also begin to recognize the ways in which nine can be constructed, such as three groups of three.