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Students communicated back to Tang using hand signals and white boards to express their understanding.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tang\u2019s books, which include titles such as \u201cThe Grapes of Math,\u201d \u201cMath Fables,\u201d and \u201cMath-terpieces,\u201d are known for incorporating both math and literacy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><br><em>Photo courtesy Lisa Farese<br>National bestselling author, Greg Tang, leads Ocean Palms Elementary students through games and activities that teach math and literacy.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Lisa Faresemail@floridanewsline.com Ocean Palms Elementary School celebrated literacy week by inviting national bestselling author, Greg Tang, to the school to teach literacy through play to kindergarten through fifth grade students.With four sessions, three for students and one for teachers, Tang took students on a journey fusing literacy and math with games such as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11529,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11557","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ponte-vedra"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.4 - 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