Using literature to connect math

(WTNH) -- Author and poet, MW Penn uses literature to connect math.

MW Penn is an award winning author and poet who uses literature to connect math with both the real and imaginary lives that matter to children, making math concepts both intuitive and meaningful.

She is the author of the bestselling Pebble Book Math, a series from Capstone Press; 2 Lines, which won first prize in the Connecticut Press Club Communications Awards this year; Square Bear, a fairytale of polygons; and the upcoming Square Bear Meets Round Hound, a story of shapes in a plane.

She also has a poem in the July issue of Highlights for Children and has won a national prize for poetry.

Learn more at www.mwpenn.com