Storytelling activity for stimulating proportional reasoning in young children.

“Can you tell me a story?” The relationship between adults and children is often characterised by storytelling. Whenever you read or listen to a story, you embark on a journey into the imagination! Through the stories we are told, we learn something about the world. A state of correspondence with reality is created in which every- thing is possible and, above all, in which our ego enters into a close relationship with the ego of the protagonists of the stories and shares their experiences (Winnicott, 1971). In mathematics, storytelling is also a powerful pedagogical tool that allows children to appreciate and use mathematics as a possible lens to give meaning to certain aspects of stories (see e.g. Liljedhal & Zazkis, 2009), such as how to resolve a problem.