Books involving math Addition/Subtraction *The 329th Friend, Marjorie Weinman Sharmat (lesson) The Action of Subtraction, Brian

Cleary Bunches and Bunches of Bunnies, Louise Mathews Centipede's 100 Shoes, Tony Ross Each Orange Had 8 Slices, Paul Giganti Elevator Magic, Stuart Murphy (subtracting) The Grapes of Math, Greg Tang Math Appeal, Greg Tang Math Fables, Greg Tang Math For All Seasons, Greg Tang Math-terpieces, Greg Tang Monster Math, Anne Miranda My Little Sister Ate One Hare, Bill Grossman Panda Math; Learning About Subtraction from Hua Mei and Mei Sheng, Ann Whitehead Nagda Ready, Set, Hop!, Stuart Murphy (building equations) The Real Princess: A Mathematical Tale Brenda Williams (variety of problems) Rooster's Off to See the World, Eric Carle Safari Park, Stuart Murphy (finding unknowns) Shark Swimathon, Stuart Murphy (subtracting two-digit numbers) Splash!, Ann Jonas Subtraction Action, Loreen Leedy

Area/Perimeter Spaghetti and Meatballs for All!, Marilyn Burns Division 17 Kings and 42 Elephants, Margaret Mahy

A Remainder of One, Elinor J. Pinczes Bean Thirteen, Matthew McElligot Cheetah Math, Ann Whitehead Nagda The Doorbell Rang, Pat Hutchins Divide and Ride, Stuart Murphy The Great Divide, Dayle Ann Dodds One Hungry Cat, Joanne Rocklin (Hello Math)

Estimating Betcha!, Stuart Murphy The Candy Corn Contest, Patricia Reilly Giff (chapter bk) (review) *Great Estimations, Bruce Goldstone (lesson, review) *Greater Estimations, Bruce Goldstone (author letter, review) *How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin, Margaret McNamara (review)

Fractions, Decimals, Percents Apple Fractions, Jerry Pallotta Eating Fractions, Bruce McMillan Fabulous Fractions, Lynette Long Fraction Action, Loreen Leedy Fraction Fun, David Adler Full House, Dayle Ann Dodds The Grizzly Gazette, Stuart J. Murphy The Hersheys Fraction Book, Jerry Pallotta Jump, Kangaroo, Jump!, Stuart Murphy *Little Numbers and Pictures That Show Just How Little They Are!, Edward Packard Music Math, Kathleen Collins *Picture Pie, Ed Emberley (lesson here, here)

Piece=Part=Portion, Scott Gifford Twizzlers Percentages Book, Jerry Pallotta The Wishing Club, Donna Jo Napoli (review) Geometry All About Where, Tana Hoban The Amazing Book of Shapes: Explore Math Through Shapes and Patterns, Lydia Sharman (OOP) Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes, Stuart J. Murphy (lesson) *A Cloak for the Dreamer, Aileen Friedman (tessellations)(lesson here, here) Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, and Spheres, Tana Hoban Eight Hands Round: A Patchwork Alphabet, Ann Whitford Paul (Quilts) Grandfather Tang's Story, Ann Tompert (lesson here, here) *The Greedy Triangle, Marilyn Burns (lesson here, here, here) Hamster Champs, Stuart Murphy (angles)(review/lesson) Icky Bug Shapes, Jerry Pallotta If You Were a Polygon, Marcie Aboff If You Were a Quadrilateral, Molly Blaisdell (lesson) The Incredibly Awesome Box, Joanne Rocklin (Hello Math Reader) A Light in the Attic (poem, Shapes), Shel Silverstein The Magic Mirror Book, Marion Walter (OOP, symmetry)(lesson) Magic Mirror Tricks, Marion Walter (OOP, symmetry)(lesson) *Mouse Shapes, Ellen Stoll Walsh Museum Shapes, Metropolitan Museum of Art *Mummy Math: An Adventure in Geometry, Cindy Neuschwander (lesson) The Seasons Sewn, Ann Whitford Paul (quilts) Shapes, Shapes, Shapes, Tana Hoban The Silly Story of Goldie Locks and the Three Squares, Grace Maccarone (Hello Math)(lesson) *Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi, Cindy Neuschwander *Sir Cumference and the First Round Table, Cindy Neuschwander (lesson,lesson)

*Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland, Cindy Neuschwander (lesson, lesson) Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter, Cindy Neuschwander Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone, Cindy Neuschwander (lesson) So Many Circles, So Many Squares, Tana Hoban *I Spy Shapes in Art, Lucy Micklethwait (lesson) Square Cat, Elizabeth Schoonmaker Three Pigs, One Wolf, and Seven Magic Shapes, Grace Maccarone (lesson) The Village of Round and Square Houses, Ann Grifalconi When a Line BendsA Shape Begins, Rhonda Greene Zachary Zormer, Shape Transformer, Joanne Reisberg

Graphs, Charts, Coordinates, Data Barts Amazing Charts, Dianne Ochiltree (Hello Math Reader) The Best Vacation Ever, Stuart Murphy *The Fly on the Ceiling: A Math Myth, Dr. Julie Glass (Step into Reading) The Long Wait, Annie Cobb (Math Matters Reader) Tiger Math, Nagda & Bickel

Measurement The 100-Pound Problem, Jennifer Dussling *Balancing Act, Ellen Stoll Walsh Beanstalk; the Measure of a Giant, Ann McCallum (lesson) The Biggest Fish, Sheila Keenan (Hello Math) Biggest, Strongest, Fastest, Steve Jenkins *Counting on Frank, Rod Clement *The Dragon's Scales Sarah Albee (weight) (review) *Equal Shmequal, Virginia Kroll (review) Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest, Steve Jenkins

*How Big is a Foot?, Rolf Myller (lesson) How Big Is It?, Ben Hillman How Long Is It?, Donna Loughran How Long or How Wide?, Brian Cleary How Tall, How Short, How Faraway, David Adler *If Dogs Were Dinosaurs, David Schwartz (Ratio/Proportion) *If You Hopped Like a Frog, David Schwartz (Ratio/Proportion) *Inch by Inch, Leo Lionni (lesson here, here) Inchworm and a Half, Elinor Pinczes Incredible Comparisons, Russell Ash (boys in my class love this book!) Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? Robert Wells Jim and the Beanstalk, Raymond Briggs Length, Henry Arthur *The Librarian Who Measured the Earth, Kevin Hawkes (review) Me and the Measure of Things, Joan Sweeney Measuring Penny, Loreen Leedy Millions to Measure, David Schwartz More For Me!, Sydnie Meltzer Kleinhenz (Hello Math) Pastry School in Paris: An Adventure in Capacity, Cindy Neuschwander Pezzettino, Leo Lionni (area)(Mathwire lesson) Pigs in the Pantry, Amy Axelrod Racing Around, Stuart J. Murphy Slower Than a Snail, Anne Schreiber (Hello Math) Spaghetti and Meatballs for All!, Marilyn Burns (area, perimeter) Super Sand Castle Saturday, Stuart Murphy Ten Times Better, Richard Michelson (multiplying by ten) Twelve Snails to One Lizard, Susan Hightower Twenty-One Elephants, Phil Bildner (see lesson)

Twenty-One Elephants and Still Standing, April Jones Prince (see lesson) Weight, Henry Arthur What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew?, Robert Wells *Who Sank the Boat?, Pamela Allen (lesson)

Money 26 Letters and 99 Cents, Tana Hoban A Dollar for Penny, Julie Glass *Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday, Judith Viorst *Arthur's Funny Money, Lilian Hoban (review) The Big Buck Adventure, Gill & Tobola Benny's Pennies, Pat Brisson The Coin Counting Book, Rozanne Williams (review) Growing Money, Gail Karlitz (resource/reference) How Much is that Guinea Pig in the Window?, Joanne Rocklin (Hello Math) How the Second Grade Got $8,205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty, Nathan Zimelman (review) If You Made a Million, David Schwartz Jelly Beans for Sale, Bruce McMillan (review) Jenny Found a Penny, Trudy Harris Max's Money, Teddy Slater (Hello Math) *Monster Money, Grace Macarone (Hello Math)(My boys love this) My Rows and Piles of Coins, Tololwa Mollel (setting: Tanzania) *Once Upon a Dime; A Math Adventure, Nancy Kelly Allen (review) The Penny Pot, Stuart Murphy Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money, Amy Axelrod A Quarter from the Tooth Fairy, Caren Holtzman (Hello Math) The Story of Money, Betsy Maestro Tight Times, Barbara Shook Hazen

The Toothpaste Millionaire, Jean Merrill (chapter book) *Where the Sidewalk Ends (poem, "Smart"), Shel Silverstein (lesson here, here)

Multiplication, Skip Counting, Doubling, Square Numbers The 512 Ants on Sullivan Street, Carol Losi (Hello Math Reader), (doubling, add, multiply) A Grain of Rice, Helena Clare Pittman (doubling) Amanda Beans Amazing Dream, Cindy Neuschwander Annos Mysterious Multiplying Jar, Mitsumasa Anno Arctic Fives Arrive, Elinor Pinczes (skip counting by 5s) Bats on Parade, Kathi Appelt (mult, square #s) *The Best of Times, Greg Tang Bunches and Bunches of Bunnies, Louise Mathews Counting Coconuts, Contando Cocos (counting by 2s,3s,4s,5s,10s...#s also in Spanish) Double the Ducks, Stuart Murphy Each Orange Had 8 Slices: A Counting Book, Paul Giganti, Jr.(multiply, add, count) How Do You Count a Dozen Ducklings?, In Seon Chae *How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin?, Margaret McNamara (review) *The King's Chessboard, David Birch (doubling)(lesson here, here) The King's Commissioners, Aileen Friedman (addition, skip counting) The M&M's Counting Book, Barbara McGrath (counting, add/subtract/multiply) More M&M's Math, Barbara McGrath (many topics) My Full Moon is Square, Elinor Pinczes (square #s) *One Grain of Rice, Demi (doubling)(lesson here, here) One Hundred Hungry Ants, Elinor Pinczes One Hundred Ways to Get to 100, Jerry Pallotta (many topics) *Sea Squares, Joy N. Hulme (square numbers) (lesson here, here) Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens, Cindy Neuschwander Stay in Line, Teddy Slater (Hello Math), (add, multiply)

Spunky Monkeys on Parade, Stuart Murphy (count by 2s, 3s, 4s) Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do!, Stuart Murphy (multiplying) *Two of Everything, Lily Toy Hong (doubling) *Two Ways to Count to Ten, Ruby Dee

Number and Operations, Number Sense (lg/sm) *100 Ways to Celebrate 100 Days, Bruce Goldstone (100 day celebrations)(review, author) *365 Penguins, Jean-Luc Fromental (review, lesson) Big Numbers: And Pictures that Show Just How Big They Are!, Edward Packard Can You Count to a Googol?, Robert E. Wells Dinosaur Deals, Stuart Murphy (equivalent values) How Big is It?, Ben Hillman (large numbers) How Many Candles?, Helen Griffith *How Much is a Million?, David Schwartz If You Made a Million, David Schwartz Less Than Zero, Stuart Murphy *Little Numbers: And Pictures that Show Just How Little They Are!, Edward Packard A Million Dots, Andrew Clements On Beyond a Million, David Schwartz Zero: Is It Something? Is It Nothing?, Claudia Zaslavsky (OOP) Zero Is the Leaves on the Tree, Betsy Franco

Odd/Even Numbers *Even Steven and Odd Todd, Kathryn Cristaldi (Hello Math) Missing Mittens, Stuart Murphy Ocean Counting: Odd Numbers, Jerry Pallotta

One Hundred Days of School

*100 Ways to Celebrate 100 Days, Bruce Goldstone (review, author) The One Hundredth Day of School!, Abby Klein (chapter book)

Patterns *Growing Patterns, Sarah Campbell (Fibonnaci #s) *Pattern Bugs, Trudy Harris (lesson) *Pattern Fish, Trudy Harris (lesson) *Patterns in Peru: An Adventure in Patterning, Cindy Neuschwander (review) The Rabbit Problem, Emily Graves (review)

Place Value Earth DayHooray!, Stuart Murphy (place value) Sir Cumference and All the King's Tens, Cindy Neuschwander (base 10)(lesson)

Probability, Data Analysis, Graphs Do You Wanna Bet? Your Chance to Find Out About Probability, Jean Cushman (chapter bk) Pigs at Odds, Amy Axelrod Probably Pistachio, Stuart J. Murphy Socrates and the Three Little Pigs, Mitsumasa Anno A Very Improbable Story, Edward Einhorn (review)

Problem Solving *365 Penguins, Jean-Luc Fromental (review, lesson) Anno's Hat Tricks, Mitsumasa Anno Annos Magic Seeds, Anno (lots in here!) The Case of the Backyard Treasure, Joanne Rocklin (Hello Math Reader) The Further Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat, Theoni Pappas (chapter bk) Math Curse, Jon Scieszka (humor)

Math Trek, Paterson & Henderson (chapter book) Painless Math Word Problems, Marcie Abramson (chapter book) You Can, Toucan, Math, David Adler

Roman Numerals Fun With Roman Numerals, David Adler (new!) Roman Numerals, David Adler (this is the book I own which I don't see on Amazon. I'm wondering if it's an older version of Fun With Roman Numerals??) Roman Numerals I to MM, Arthur Geisert

Spatial Sense/Direction Pigs in the Corner, Amy Axelrod

Square Numbers Bunches and Bunches of Bunnies, Louise Mathews My Full Moon is Square, Elinor Pinczes *Sea Squares, Joy Hulme (lesson here, here)

Time All About Time, Jeunesse & Verdet All in a Day, Mitsumasa Anno, et al Bats Around the Clock, Kathi Appelt Chimp Math, Nagda & Bickel Clocks and More Clocks, Pat Hutchins Cluck O'Clock, Kes Gray Four Season Make a Year, Anne Rockwell Just a Minute!, Teddy Slater (Hello Math)

My First Book of Time, Claire Llewellyn On the Same Day in March, Marilyn Singer Telling Time, Jules Older Telling Time with Big Mama Cat, Dan Harper

********** Additional Assorted Topics in Math **********

Activity Books Circles: Fun Ideas for Getting A-Round in Math, Catherine Ross *Math Games & Activities from Around the World, Claudia Zaslavsky *The Secret Life of Math: discover how (and why) number have survived from the cave dwellers to us, Ann McCallum (lesson)

Art/Math MathART: Projects and Activities, Carolyn Ford Brunetto (teacher book) *Math-terpieces, Greg Tang Museum Shapes, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Biographies *Blockhead: the Life of Fibonacci *Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham (chapter book, Newbery Award, maritime biography) *Mathematicians Are People, Too, Reimer (two volumes, biographies of mathematicians) Of Numbers and Stars: The Story of Hypatia, D. Anne Love *Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein, Don Brown

Fact & Photo Books (fun for kids to share during gathering time) *A Closer Look, Mary McCarthy Incredible Comparisons, Stephen Biesty

Life-Size Aquarium, Teruyuki Komiya Penguins Swim But Don't Get Wet; and Other Amazing Facts About Polar Animals, Berger

History *The History of Counting, Denise Schmandt-Besserat (picture book, advanced) The Warlord's Beads, Virgian Walton Pilegard (history of abacus)

Poetry Count Me a Rhyme: Animal Poems by the Numbers, Jane Yolen Mathematickles!, Betsy Franco

Puzzles, Rhymes and Riddles (I LOVE opening math sessions with things from this category!) Amazing Math Puzzles, Adam Hart-Davis Arithme-Tickle: An Even Number of Odd Riddle-Rhymes, J. Patrick Lewis *Easy Math Puzzles, David A. Adler How Many Feet? How Many Tails?, Marilyn Burns (Hello Math) Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School, Louis Sachar (chapter book)

World With No Numbers (great to spur creative writing) A Day With No Math, Marilyn Kaye (OOP)(lesson) Missing Math, Loreen Leady (lesson) Neil's Numberless World, Lucy Coats (OOP)(lesson)

Chapter Books (or more advanced, reference) The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat, Theoni Pappas Arithmetricks, Edward Julius Body Math, Penny Dowdy

The Candy Corn Contest, Patricia Reilly Giff (early chapter book) *Carry On, Mr. Bowditch, Jean Lee Latham (chapter book, Newbery Award, maritime biography) Chasing Vermeer, Blue Balliett Fractals, Googols and Other Mathematical Tales, Theoni Pappas The Further Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat, Theoni Pappas G is for Googol; A Math Alphabet Book, David Schwartz Go Figure!, Johnny Ball How Math Works, Carol Vorderman Isador A. Inchworm's Magic Math Glasses (old, but good)(lesson) The Longitude Prize, Joan Dash The Man Who Counted, Malba Tahan Mathemagic (Childcraft, old but good) Murderous Maths series by Kjartan Poskitt. You can sometimes find them used and inexpensive on Amazon, but there are a few dealers who sell them new in the U.S. *The Number Devil, Hans Magnus Enzensberger Sideways Arithmetic From Wayside School, Louis Sachar The Toothpaste Millionaire, Jean Merrill (chapter book) Walk Past the Wolf: A Mythmatical Battles Adventure, Scrivener Minion

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