 Martha
Blah Blah
by Susan Meddaugh
Martha the dog begins to talk
after eating alphabet soup. When some pasta letters
disappear, Martha’s speech suffers.
Activity: analyzing frequency of use
of letters, using probability and statistics |
 Anno’s
Magic Seeds
by Mitsumasa Anno
A wizard gives Jack two magic
seeds. He plants some and saves some in changing patterns.
Activity: searching for patterns and predicting
using patterns |
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 A
Million Fish…More or Less
by Pat Mckissack
A boy catches a million fish
but loses some to hungry animals on his way home.
Activity: large numbers matched with
things the number could and could not represent |
|
 Counting
on Frank
by Rod Clement
A boy makes endless calculations.
Activity: measurement problems using proportional
reasoning |
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 Grandfather
Tang’s Story
by Ann Tompert
Grandfather Tang illustrates his stories
with tangram shapes.
Activity: making tangrams, investigating
shapes, exploring area and measurement |
|
 The
King’s Chessboard
by David Birch
A chessboard illustrates the power
of doubling.
Activity: using measurement and multiplication |
|
 Two
Ways to Count to Ten
by Ruby Dee
Sometimes the cleverest animal
wins the prize.
Activity: finding factors |
|
 Marvelous
Math
by Lee Bennett Hopkins
Poems featuring the ways mathematics
is part of our daily lives.
Activity: writing math poems |
|
 The
Warlord’s Puzzle
by Virginia Walton Pilegard
When a tile is broken into pieces,
a competition is held to reassemble it.
Activity: using tangrams to make different
polygons |
|
 One
Riddle, One Answer
by Lauren Thompson
A Persian princess asks her suitors
to solve a mathematical riddle.
Activity: solving the riddle in the book,
writing mathematical riddles |
|
 Esio
Trot
by Roald Dahl
Mr. Hoppy convinces Mrs. Silver that
her tortoise is growing by replacing it with 140 slightly
larger ones.
Activity: How many trips would it take
to bring the tortoises home 15 at a time? Ten at a time?
Ten or 15 each time? |
|
 Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing
There Is?
by Robert E. Wells
Starting with the blue whale, this
book cleverly compares sizes of things in our world.
Activity: measuring, finding averages, comparing
lengths |
|
 Each Orange Had 8 Slices
by Paul Giganti Jr.
Each spread shows things grouped in
three ways.
Activity: mental multiplication practice,
writing multiplication story problems |
|
 Sam Johnson and the
Blue Ribbon Quilt
by Lisa Campbell Ernst
Sam starts his own quilting club when
the women won’t let him join theirs.
Activity: making geometric paper quilts
and writing quilt riddles |
 On
the Day You Were Born
by Debra Frasier
Colorful woodblocks present forces
at work in the natural world.
Activity: figuring how many days have passed
since you were born |
|
 Jumanji
by Chris Van Allsburg
Two children find a board game where
dice rolls cause wild animals to appear.
Activity: exploring probability with dice |
|
 A
Remainder of One
by Elinor J. Pinczes
A group of 25 ants try to line
up in even rows with no remainder.
Activity: using division to solve number
riddles, writing and solving number riddles |
|
 The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical
Adventures
by Malba Tahan
“Beasts of Burden” tells of 3 brothers dividing
35 camels.
Activity: division and fractions |
|
 Math
Curse
by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
Hilarious story of a girl who is
cursed by finding math problems in everything she does or
sees.
Activity: writing math story problems |
|
 The
$1.00 Word Riddle Book
by Marilyn Burns
Word values are computed by adding
up the letters with a=1¢, b=2¢, etc.
Activity: addition practice by figuring
the value of first and last names |
|
 Jim
and the Beanstalk
by Raymond Briggs
Jim measures the aging giant
for glasses and false teeth.
Activity: using proportional illustrations
to figure the size of the giant’s hand and his height |
|
 Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner
by Amy Schwartz
Annabelle impresses her class by counting
milk money.
Activity: How many cartons of milk in the book? How
much to buy milk for our class?
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