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The Top 100 Children's Books: Math

Addition and Subtraction Books

Merriam, Eve. 12 Ways to Get to 11. Simon & Schuster.

Introduces familiar situations to children that aid in the conceppt that a single number can be made up of many combinations of other numbers.

Owen, Annie. Annie's One to Ten
Not only is Annie's One to Ten a great counting book, it is a book thatshows all the combinations of numbers that add up to ten. Children, teachers, and parents will enjoy the colorful and entertaining way this book presents addition facts.

Counting Books

Anno, Mitsumasa. Anno's Counting Book.

Suitable For Grades 1-6!

Numbers, sets, and groups take place in a real setting in this book that depicts the growth of a community.

Carle, Eric. 1, 2, 3, to the Zoo.
Colorful and countable animals ride to their new home in the zoo.

Carter, David A. How Many Bugs in a Box?
Curious readers anxiously open each box in this book to discover what kind of zany bug waits to be counted!

Crowther, Robert. The Most Amazing Hide-and-Seek Counting Book.
One hundred charming creatures and other things can be discovered and counted by sliding, pulling, and lifting the pages of this highly interactive counting book.

Feelings, Muriel. Moja Means One: Swahili Counting Book. Dial, 1971.

Lindbergh, Reeve. The Midnight Farm.
At bedtime, a mother walks her young child around the farm to see the animals in the darkness. In this gentle counting book, the mother helps her child understand that the darkness of night is a comfortable and safe place to be.
Concepts: Number
Comparison
Classification
Sets

Division Books

Hutchins, Pat. The Doorbell Rang.

Suitable for Grades 3-4

As a mother offers her children a plate of cookies to share the doorbell rings. Two neoghboring children join them in the cookie-eating fun. But the doorbell continues to ring, bringing more and more children who are hungry for cookies. Soon, there are no more cookies to share, and the doorbell rings. What will the children do?

Estimation

Munsch, Robert. Moira's Birthday
Moira wants to have a birthday party and invite all of the children in the school. And, without her parents'knowledge or consent, she does. What follows provides readers with a humorous look at estimation and problem solving.

Fractions

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Geometry Books

Brown, Marcia. Listen to a Shape. Franklin Watts, 1979.

Hoban, Tana. Circles, Triangles, and Squares. Macmillan, 1974.

Tompert, Ann. Grandfather Tang's Story.

Suitable for Grades 3-6

Little Soo and her grandfather sat under the peach tree in their backyard making different shapes with tangram puzzles. She asks him to tell her a story about the fox fairies, Chou and Wu Ling, who were able to change their shapes. Grandfather Tang used the tangrams to tell his story, arranging the tans to show the differnt animals the fox fairies become.

Measurement Books

Lionni, Leo. Inch by Inch
A quick thinking inch worm saves his life by offering to measure the birds who want to eat him. Inch by inch, he measures the robin's tail, the flamingo's neck, the toucan's beak, the heron's legs, the pheasant's tail, and the hummingbird's body. But when he agrees to measure the nightingale's song, he takes the opportunity to inch away to freedom!

Money Books

Schwartz, David M. If You Made a Million. Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard, 1989.

What does it mean to be a millionaire? Explore the world of money in this delightful book.

Silverstein, Shel. "The Googies Are Coming" from the book Where the Sidewalk Ends
Read the poem and arrange the child prices in order of most expensive to least expensive. Determine the cost of a bunch of children if purchased according to the Googies' price list.

Silverstein, Shel. "Smart" from the book Where the Sidewalk Ends

Read "Smart". Determine exactly how much money the narrator had left by the end of the poem.

Viorst, Judith. Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday Macmillan, 1988.
Poor Alexander. His grandparents gave him one dollar when they came to visit, and now he has nothing to show for it but a deck of cards with two cards missing, a one-eyed bear, a melted candle, and bus tokens.
Also may be used when teaching subtraction.

Multiplication Books

Hong, Lily Toy. Two of Everything. Albert Whitman, 1993.
Audience: Grades 2-4 Concepts: Multiplication; the concept of doubling and the larger idea of function.

When an elderly couple dig up a large, old brass pot in their field, they discover it is magical. The pot doubles whatever the couple put in it! One day, Mrs. Hartak accidentally falls in the pot; the couple learn not everything in life should be doubled.

Mathews, Louise. Bunches and Bunches of Bunnies
Bunnies multiply right before children's eyes as they read this colorful rhyming book. One hundred and forty-four charming bunnies entertain readers as they teach basic multiplication facts!
Hint: As you read the story to children, reinforce the multiplication concepts shown in the book with math manipulatives such as unifix cubes, beans, or pennies.

Trivas, Irene. Emma's Christmas.
In this lovely book, a prince gives the young and beautiful Emm all the gifts that are mentioned in the song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" as many times as they are mentioned. It is a witty, delightful book that will provide children with many things to multiply.

Pattern Books

Adams, Pam. There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.
Children love to read and sing this funny pattern story.

Lobel, Arnold. Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do You See?
Charming pictures and simple, repetive, rhyming text.

Wood, Audrey. The Napping House
Naptime can be a warm and cozy time. In The Napping House, this is the way naptime begins: One by one, a boy, a dog, a cat, and a mouse climb upon a snoring and comfortable granny to continue their rest. But an active flea quickly changes the slumbering pile!

Place Value

Fisher, Leonard Everett. Number Art: Thirteen 123s From Around the World
The author traces the development of various peoples and their number systems. He tells which systems are still in use, and calls attention to those which are more advanced-cultures using

    place value
are considered more advanced. The number systems are illustrated making it easy for children to see how one system was derived form another.

Gag, Wanda. Millions of Cats! Coward-McCann, 1988.

Schwartz, David M. How Much Is a Million?. Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard, 1985.
In How Much is a Million?, astronomical numbers like million, billion, and trillion are brought into focus by using things children can visualize. The facts will fascinate and the illustrations will delight readers of all ages!!
This book is suitable for both primary and intermediate students!

Seuss, Dr. The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins. Vanguard, 1965.

Suitable for Grades 2-4

Problem Solving/Word Problems

Dahl, Roald. Esio Trot. Viking, 1990.
Audience: Intermediate

Mrs. Silver loves her pet tortoise, Alfie, but she wants it to grow. In the hopes of winning his neighbor's hand in marriage, Mr. Hopper gives her magic words to recite; then he buys 140 tortoises of various sizes and secretly replaces them one by one.

Time Books

Carle, Eric. The Grouchy Ladybug.
Angrily leaving a leaf full of aphids that it did not want to share with another ladybug, the grouchy ladybug flew off in search of a fight. Each hour of the day it encountered an opponent that it felt was "just not big enough" to fight. By the end of the day, the groughy ladybug was ready to challenge a whale. Butthe whale, with a slap of the tale, sent the ladybug back.
This book may also be used to teach the concepts of measurement, sequence, estimation, comparison and fractions.

Bibliograhy for Parents and Teachers

Stenmark, Jean Kerr; Thompson, Virginia, and Cossey, Ruth. Family Math. University of California, 1986.

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