365 Penguins
A hilarious story about a ecologist that sends 1 peguin a day for a year to his surprised and distraught family.
1. +1 counting sequence
2. 2 and 3 digit numbers
3. Basic calculations: addition, multiplication and division
5. How many days in a week, month and year
and more...
The Three Silly Billies
The three billy goats gruff decide to go for a drive only to be stopped at the 'Troll Bridge' - cost $1.00 but they don't have it. They decide to pool together the spare change of the rest of the broke fairy tale characters hoping to cross.
1. Working with money
2. Adding to 100
93 In My Family
A kid tells his disbelieving teacher that he has 93 family members, soon to be 94 and proceeds to explain a typical day with his family and numerous pets.
1. Double digit adding
Henry Hikes to Fitchburg by D.B. Johnson
My daughter picked this one up at random and I was pleasantly surprised to be regaled by a story that talks about why sometimes its more enriching to take the slow path, and used the path concepts:
1. Subtracting, counting down double digits by using distance
2. Adding upwards in 5 and 10s by using money
This was an exceptional book.
How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin by Margaret Mcnamara
A more obvious, but still endearing, math book, it follows the story of the shortest boy in the class as they try to estimate how many seeds will be in their small, medium and large pumpkin and which will have the most.
1. Counting by 2s, 5s, 10s (pre-algebra)
2. Estimating
Each Orange had 8 slices: a counting book by by Paul Giganti, Jr. ; pictures by Donald Crews
A pretty standard math book with colourful pictures introducing the ideas of grouping and multiplication.
1. Multiplication
2. Addition with more than two numbers
3. Grouping
A Million Dots by Andrew Clements; Illustrated by Mike Reed
Fun book which deals with really really really big numbers. The pictures in the book is made up of 1,000,000 dots.
1. Order of numbers
2. Big numbers
The Very Hungry Catepillar by Eric Carle
Why not use this familiar book to do a little addition or graphing? You could make a graph with each day of the week and add onto it what he ate. Which day did he eat the most? How many things did he eat all together. How many holes are in the book?
1. Counting
2. Graping and more (see above)
One Odd Old Owl by Paul Adshead
Beautifully illustrated book about a sleepy owl that is keeping all the birds awake at night. It alliterates and counts. At the end, it tells you how many birds have accumulated all together.
1. Counting
2. Adding
Arctic fives arrive by Elinor Pinczes ; illustrated by Holly Berry
Standard counting type book with a twist - counting by fives.
1. Counting by multiples (pre-algebra)
Quack and Count by Keith Baker
This very simple story follows after seven ducklings. The ducklings are split between two pages, and the book lets you know that this is an addition equation: '7 ducklings, 4 plus 3.'
1. Addition Foundations
2. Numbersense
Pie for Piglets by Michale Dahl, illustrated by Todd Ouren
A book to introduce the 'even' count by two sequence. Typical math story book with two pigs adding ingredients to a pie.
1. Counting by 2s (pre-algebra)
2. Even numbers
Math-terpieces, the Art of Problem-Solving by Greg Paprocki
Clever, if a little pretentious, a book that combines the disciplines of art, simple rhyming poetry, and addition. You have to find two groups of objects, which are inspired by a painting by a famous artist such as Degas or Picasso, to make a particular number.
1. Addition Foundations
2. Numbersense
How Do You Count a Dozen Ducklings by In Seon Chae, with illustrations by Seung Ha Rew
Found in the fiction section of the children's library was this little math gem about a momma duck trying to keep track of her 12 ducklings. It explores the precursors of division and multiplication through grouping, along with counting by multiples. A good transition storybook from counting by mutliples to multiplication.
1. Multiplication / Division Foundations
2. Counting by Multiples
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