ABSTRACT
The aims of this chapter are to consider:
an example of a child retelling a mathematical story with precision and imagination
how oral story telling challenges children
children playing with story and mathematical ideas as storytellers.
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Once upon a time there was a little penguin. His mum said to him:
‘Go to the magical pond and catch ten fish for our tea.’
He walked a bit, and he walked a bit, and he walked a bit, and he walked a bit, until he got to the magical pond that glistens and shines.
‘Today we have orange and lemon flavoured fish’, the pond says.
Penguin fished, and fished and fished until he caught ten delicious fish for tea. But on bringing the catch home, the family eats the fish and is still hungry and so Penguin has to return to the pond with the lemon and orange flavours and find different ways to catch ten fish …
(Kelham 2013d)