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                                 MATH LITERATURE BOOKS

Author

Title

Publisher

Date

ISBN Number

Abbott, Edwin A.

** Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions

Dover

1952

 

Adler, David A.

How Tall How Short How Far Away

Holiday House

1999

0-8234-1375-6

Anno, Mitsumasa

Anno's Math Games

Philomel Books

1982

0-399-21151-9

Atherlay, Sara

Math in the Bath (and other fun places, too!)

The Trumpet Club

1995

0-590-99691-6

Base, Graeme

The Water Hole

Abrams

2001

0-8109-4568-1

Bogart, Jo Ellen

10 for Dinner

Scholastic

1989

0-590-71949-1

Briggs, Raymond

Jim and the Beanstalk

Putnam and Grosset

1970

0-698-11577-5

Burns, Marilyn

Spaghetti and Meatballs for All

Scholastic

1998

0-590-94461-4

Burns, Marilyn

* The Greedy Triangle

Scholastic

1994

0-590-48991-7

Carle, Eric

The Grouchy Ladybug

Scholastic

1977

0-590-31227-8

Carle, Eric

Draw Me a Star

Penguin Putnam

1992

0-698-11632-1

Carroll, Lewis

** Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass

Anness Publishing

1995

0 8317 6694 8

Chorao, Kay

Number One Number Fun

Trumpet Club

1995

0-590-97315-0

Clement, Rod

* Counting on Frank

Gareth Stevens

1991

0-8368-0358-2

Dee, Ruby

Two Ways to Count to Ten

Henry Holt & Co.

1988

0-8050-0407-6

Demi

* One Grain of Rice - A Mathematical Folktale

Scholastic

1997

0-590-93999-8

Emberly, Ed

The Wing on a Flea - A Book About Shapes

Little, Brown & Co.

2001

0-316-23487-7

Enzensberger, Hans Magnus

The Number Devil - A Mathematical Adventure

Owls Books

1997

0-8050-6299-8

Evans, Lezlie

Can You Count Ten Toes?

Houghton Mifflin

1999

0-395-90499-4

Eyles, Heather

A Zoo in Our House

Warner Books, Inc.

1988

1-55782-002-3

Fisher, Valorie

How High Can a Dinosaur Count?

Schwartz & Wade

2006

0-375-83608-X

Freidman, Aileen

The King's Commissioners

Scholastic

1994

0-590-48990-9

French, Vivian and Ross Collins

From Zero to Ten - The Story of Numbers

Zero to Ten Limited

2000

1-84089-180-7

Ga'g, Wanda

Millions of Cats

Scholastic

1928

0-590-40612-4

Geringer, Laura

A Three Hat Day

HarperCollins

1985

0-06-021988-2

Giganti, Paul Jr.

Each Orange Had 8 Slices

The Trumpet Club

1992

0-440-84957-8

Greenberg, Dan

* 30 Wild and Wonderful Math Stories  Grades 4-8

Scholastic

1992

0-590-49169-5

Greene, Carol

"M" is for Missouri

GHB Publishers

2000

1-892920-26-3

Grossman, Virginia

Ten Little Rabbits

Trumpet Club

1991

0-440-84860-1

Hooper, Meredith

Seven Eggs

HarperCollins

1985

0-694-00144-9

Hopkins, Lee Bennett

Marvelous Math - a Book of Poems

Simon & Schuster

1997

0-689-84442-5

Hulme, Joy N.

Sea Squares

Hyperion Books

1991

1-56282-079-6

Hulme, Joy N.

Wild Fibonacci - Nature's Secret Code Revealed

Tricycle Press

2005

1-58246-154-6

Kightley, Rosalinda

Shapes

Trumpet 

1986

0-440-84977-2

Lansky, Bruce

A Bad Case of the Giggles - Kids Pick the Funniest Poems #2

Meadowbrook Press

1994

0-88166-213-5

Lasky, Kathryn

The Librarian who Measured the Earth

Little, Brown & Co.

1994

0-316-51526-4

Leedy, Loreen

* Measuring Penny

Henry Holt

1997

0-8050-5360-3

Leedy, Loreen

Fraction Action

Holiday House

1994

0-8234-1244-X

Leedy, Loreen

Mapping Penny's World

Henry Holt

2000

0-8050-6178-9

Lewdon, Peter and Marilyn Mets

Midnight Math

Scholastic

2000

0-439-34421-2

Lionni, Leo

Inch by Inch

Scholastic

1960

0-590-47991-1

Long, Lynette

Domino Addition

Charlesbridge

1996

0-88106-878-0

Maccarone, Grace

* Three Pigs, One Wolf, and Seven Magic Shapes

Scholastic

1997

0-590-30857-2

Mahy, Margaret

The Boy Who Was Followed Home

Dial Books

1975

 

Mahy, Margaret

17 Kings and 42 Elephants

Dial Books

1972

0-14-054597-2

Martin, Bill, Jr.; and Michael Sampson

Swish!

Henry Holt and Company

1997

0-8050-4498-1

Mathews, Louise

Bunches and Bunches of Bunnies

Scholastic

1978

0-590-44766-1

McGrath, Barbara Barbieri

Skittles Riddles

Charlesbridge

2000

1-57091-412-5

McGrath, Barbara Barbieri

The M & M Counting Book

Charlesbridge 

1994

0-88106-854-3

McKissack, Patricia C.

A Million Fish . . .  More or Less

The Trumpet Club

1992

0-440-83063-X

Merrill, Jean

The Toothpaste Millionaire

Houghton Mifflin

1972

0-395-18511-4

Moore, Inga

Six Dinner Sid

Simon & Schuster

1991

0-671-73199-8

Murphy, Frank

Ben Franklin and the Magic Square

Scholastic

2001

0-439-30920-4

Murphy, Stuart

Shark Swimathon

HarperCollins

2001

0-06-028030-1

Neuschwander, Cindy

* Sir Cumference and the First Round Table

Scholastic

1997

0-590-00215-5

Neuschwander, Cindy

Sir Cumference and the Knight of Angleland

Charlesbridge

2001

1957091-169-X

Neuschwander, Cindy

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi

Charlesbridge

1999

1-57091-169-9

Neuschwander, Cindy

Sir Cumference and Sword in the Cone

Charlesbridge

2003

1-57091-601-2

Packard, Edward

BIG Numbers

Millbrook

2000

0-7613-0938-1

Pallotta, Jerry

Th Hershey's Fraction Book

Scholastic

1999

0-439-13519-2

Pallotta, Jerry

The Hershey's Kisses Addition Book

Scholastic

2001

0-439-26728-5

Pappas, Theoni

** Fractals, Googols and Other Mathematical Tales

Wide World

1993

0-933174-89-6

Pappas, Theoni

math talk - mathematical ideas in poems for two voices

Wide World

1991

0-933174-74-8

Pilegard, Virginia Walton

The Warlord's Puzzle

Pelican Publishing

2000

1-56554-495-1

Pinczes, Elinor

One Hundred Hungry Ants

Scholastic

1993

0-590-67298-3

Pittman, Helena Clare

* A Grain of Rice

Dell

 

 

Prelutsky, Jack and Lane Smith

* Dr. Seuss - Hooray for Diffendoofer Day

Knopf

1998

0-679-89008-4

Read, Ronald

Tangrams-330 Puzzles

Dover 

1965

 

Rogers, Paul

The Shapes Game

Henry Holt & Co.

1989

0-8050-1280-X

Schmandt-Besserat, Denise

The History of Counting

Morrow Junior Books

1999

0-688-14118-8

Schwartz, David M.

** G is for Googol - A Math Alphabet Book

Tricycle Press

1998

1-883672-58-9

Schwartz, David M.

*On Beyond a Million - An Amazing Math Journey

Doubleday

1999

0-385-32217-8

Schwartz, David M.

If You Hop Like a Frog

Scholastic

1999

0-590-09860-8

Schwartz, David M.

* If You Made a Million

Scholastic

1989

0-590-43608-2

Schwartz, David M.

Millions to Measure

Scholastic

2003

0-439-64974-9

Scieszka, John and Lane Smith

** Math Curse

Penguin Group

1995

0-670-86194-4

Shannon, George

* Stories to Solve

The Trumpet Club

1985

0-440-84396-0

Shannon, George

Still More Stories to Solve

Greenwillow

1994

0-688-04619-3

Shasha, Dennis

** Codes, Puzzles, and Conspiracy

Freeman

1992

0-7167-2295-5

Sierra, Judy

Counting Crocodiles

Scholastic

1997

0-590-81930-5

Sundby, Scott

Cut Down to Size at High Noon

Scholastic

2000

0-439-26005-1

Swift, Jonathan

* Gulliver's Travels

 

 

 

Tahan, Malba

** The Man Who Counted - a collection of mathematical adventures

W. W. Norton

1972

0-393-30934-7

Tang, Greg

The Grapes of Math

Scholastic

2001

0-439-21033-X

Tang, Greg

The Best of Times

Scholastic

2002

0-439-21044-5

Tang, Greg

Math Appeal

Scholastic

2003

0-439-21046-1

Tang, Greg

Math for All Seasons

Scholastic

2002

0-439-21041-0

Tang, Greg

Math Fables

Scholastic

2004

0-439-75498-4

Tang, Greg

Math Appeal

Scholastic

2003

0-439-21046-1

Tang, Greg

Math-terpieces

Scholastic

2003

0-439-44388-1

Tang, Greg

Math Potatoes

Scholastic

2005

0-439-44390-3

Tompert, Ann

* Grandfather Tang's Story - A Tale Told with Tangrams

Crown Publishers

1990

0-517-88558-1

Wells, Robert E.

Can You Count to Googol?

Albert Whitman

2000

0-8075-1061-0

Wells, Robert E.

Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?

Albert Whitman

1993

0-8075-3656-3

Zimelman, Nathan

* How the Second Grade Got $8205.50 to Visit the Statue of Liberty

Albert Whitman

1992

0-8075-3431-5

* Can be used in Elementary, Middle, or High School

** Best used in Middle and High School Math

 

                                 MATH RESOURCE BOOKS

 

Author

Title

Publisher

Date

ISBN Number

Allen, Roger E. and Stephen D. Allen

Winnie-the-Pooh on Problem Solving - In which Pooh, Piglet and friends explore How to Solve Problems so you can to

Dutton

1995

0-525-94063-4

Andrini, Beth

Cooperative Learning & Mathematics Grades K-8

Kagan

1998

1-879097-04-4

Bride, Becky

Cooperative Learning & Geometry - High School Activities

Kagan

2002

1-879097-68-0

Burns, Marilyn

The I Hate Mathematics! Book

Little, Brown & Company

1975

0-316-11740-4

Burns, Marilyn

Math for Smarty Pants

Little Brown & Company

1982

0-316-11739-0

Abrohms, Alison

Literature-Based Math Activities An Integrated Approach Grades K-3

Scholastic

1992

0-590-49201-2

DeBolt, Virginia

Write! Mathematics Grades 4-9

Kagan

1998

1-879097-38-9

Denaene, Stanislas

The Number Sense - How the Mind Creates Mathematics

Oxford University Press

1997

0-19-511004-8

Gonzales, Nancy A. , Merle Mitchell, and Alexander P. Stone

Mathematical History - Activities, Puzzles, Stories and Games

NCTM

2001

0-87353-493-X

Hechtman, Judi and Deborah Ellermeyer with Sandra Ford Grove

Teaching Math with Favorite Picture Books - Hands-on Activities and Reproducibles to Teach Math Using More Than 25 Picture Books

Scholastic Professional Books

1998

0-590-76250-8

Johnson, Ken and Ted Herr

Problem Solving Strategies - Crossing the River with Dogs and Other Mathematical Adventures

Key Curriculum Press

2001

1-55953-370-6

Johnson, Ken and Ted Herr

Problem Solving Strategies - Crossing the River with Dogs and Other Mathematical Adventures - Instructor's Resource Book and Answer Key

Key Curriculum Press

2001

1-55953-371-4

Kushnir, Dina

Cooperative Learning & Mathematics - High School Activities

Kagan

2001

1-879097-57-5

Liatsos, Sandra

Poems to Count On

Scholastic

1995

0-590-60340-X

Loomans, Diane and Karen Kolberg

The Laughing Classroom

H J Kramer Inc

1993

0-915811-44-8

Martin, Hope

Integrating Mathematics Across the Curriculum

IRI Skylight

1996

1-575-063-9

Martin, Hope

Multiple Intelligences in the Mathematics Classroom

IRI Skylight

1996

1-57517-010-8

Marzano, Robert J, Debra J Pickering, Jane E. Pollock

Classroom Instruction that Works

McRel/ASCD

2001

0-87120-504-1

Marzano, Robert J, Jennifer S Norford, Diane E. Paynter, Debra J Pickering, Barbara B. Gaddy

A Handbook for Classroom Instruction that Works

McRel/ASCD

2001

0-87120-522-X

National Storytelling Association

Tales as Tools - The Power of Story Telling in the Classroom

National Storytelling Press

1994

1-879991-15-2

NCTM

Principles and Standards for School Mathematics

NCTM

2000

0-87353-480-8

NCTM

Assessment Standards for School Mathematics

NCTM

 

 

NCTM

Teaching Children Mathematics October 1999 - Vol 6 Number 2       Article - An Old Tale with a New Turn - and Flip and Slide

NCTM

1999

 

Polya, George

How to Solve It - A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

Princeton

1945

0-691-02356-5

Schwartz, David M. and David J. Whitin

The Magic of a Million Activity Book

Scholastic

1998

0-590-70133-9

Silbey, Robyn

higher-level thinking Questions - Mathematics

Kagan

2005

1-879097-82-6

Silver, James F.

Real-Life Reading Activities for Grades 6-12: over 200 ready-to-use lessons & activities to help students master practical reading skills

Center for Applied Research in Education

1998

0-87628-920-0

Whitin, David J and Phyllis

New Visions for Linking Literature and Mathematics

NCTM/NCTE

2004

0-8141-3348-7

Navigations Series

Navigating through Number and Operations PreK-2

NCTM

 

 

 

Navigating through Algebra PreK-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

 

 

 

 

Navigating through Measurement PreK-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

 

 

 

 

Navigating through Geometry PreK-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

 

 

 

 

Navigating through Data Analysis and Probability PreK-2, 3-5

 

 

 

 

Navigating through Data Analysis 6-8, 9-12

 

 

 

 

Navigating through Probability 6-8, 9-12

 

 

 

 

Navigating through Problem Solving PreK-K, 1, 2, 3, 4

 

 

 

Mathematics Assessment Sampler Series

Mathematics Assessment Sampler 3-5, 6-8, 9-12

NCTM