Title: The Phantom Tollbooth. Author: Juster, Norton Summary: A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom. | |
Title: A Remainder of One. Author: Pinczes, Elinor J. Summary: When the queen of the bugs demands that her army march in even lines, Private Joe divides the marchers into more and more lines so that he will not be left out of the parade. | |
Title: Math Curse. Author: Scieszka, Jon. Summary: When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse. | |
Title: Bunny Money. Author: Wells, Rosemary Summary: Max and Ruby spend so much on emergencies while shopping for Grandma's birthday presents, that they just barely have enough money left for gifts. | |
Title: One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale. Author: Demi. Summary: A reward of one grain of rice doubles day by day into millions of grains of rice when a selfish raja is outwitted by a clever village girl. | |
Title: Cool Math Author: Maganzini,Christy. Summary: Describes mathematics from zero to infinity with stops along the way for ancient puzzles, awesome math tricks, tantalizing math trivia, incredible shortcuts, and mysterious number magic. | |
Title: Math-terpieces: the art of problem-solving. Author: Tang, Greg. Summary: A series of rhymes about artists and their works introduces counting and grouping numbers, as well as such artistic styles as cubism, pointillism, and surrealism. | |
Title: The Math Book for Girls and Other Beings Who Count Author: Wyatt, Valerie. Summary: The mathematics of you: Find out what math can tell you about yourself -- Shape up!: Get into shapes with math -- Party math: Put math to work for your next party - or whenever you want to have fun -- Math to the rescue: Use math to help you out of a tight spot. | |
Title: Everything You Need to Know About Math Homework Author: Zeman, Anne Summary: This clear guide defines math terms and concepts with both visual and written descriptions. Concepts covered include math functions, measurement, geometry and graphs. | |
Title: Games For Math Author: Kaye, Peggy. Summary: Games in mathematics education. | |
Title: Arithme-tickle: An Even Number of Odd Riddle-Rhymes Author: Lewis, J. Patrick Summary: Rhyming text and illustrations present a variety of math problems. | |
Title: How Much is a Million? Author: Schwartz, David M. Summary: Text and pictures try to make possible the conceptualization of a million, a billion, and a trillion. | |
Title: The Shark Swimathon. Author: Murphy, Stuart J Summary: As members of a swim team do laps to qualify for swim camp, readers can practice subtracting two-digit numbers to see how many laps are left to go. | |
Title: Panda Math : Learning About Subtraction Author: Nagda, Ann Whitehead Summary: A lot of things the pandas do can be thought of in terms of subtraction. Follow the famous cubs as they grow from tiny infants to big, bouncing pandas and learn about subtraction along the way. | |
Title: Fraction Action. Author: Leedy, Loreen. Summary: Miss Prime and her animal students explore fractions by finding many examples in the world around them. | |
Title: Apple Fractions Author: Pallotta, Jerry. Summary: Describes a variety of apples and uses them to introduce fractions. | |
Title: Each Orange Had 8 Slices: A Counting Book Author: Giganti, Paul. Summary: An illustrated introduction to counting and simple addition. | |
Title: Janice VanCleave's Geometry For Every Kid Author: VanCleave, Janice Pratt. Summary: Learn about angles, shapes and three dimensional figures through short explanations and lots of hands on activities. | |
Title: Millions To Measure. Author: Schwartz, David M. Summary: Marvelosissimo the Magician explains the development of standard units of measure, and shows the simplicity of calculating length, height, weight, and volume using the metric system. | |
Title: Games Author: Bulloch, Ivan Summary: Text and accompanying photographs present activities that challenge children to use mathematical concepts in recognizing patterns and shapes, remembering, and mental computation. | |
![]() | Title: Riddle-iculous math Author: Holub, Joan. Summary: A collection of funny, corny, and sometimes challenging riddles and rhymes based on math. |
Title: Math Trek : Adventures In The MathZone Author: Peterson, Ivars. Summary: Explores various mathematical concepts--such as knots, fractals, secret codes, and chaos theory--and relates them to everyday life. | |
Title: Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems Author: Hopkins, Lee Bennett Summary: Presents such poems as Math Makes Me Feel Safe, Fractions, Pythagoras, and Time Passes, by such writers as Janet S. Wong, Lee Bennett Hopkins, and Ilo Orleans. |