Math Department

Elementary School Resources

Math Literature Connections

Books presented to each elementary school by the Math Department to strengthen the link between math and literature.

Math-themed books by grade level

• Everyday Mathematics master literature list (PDF)

Professional Title (for any level of elementary math)

• Teaching Tessellating Art: Activities & Transparency Masters

Kindergarten

• Anno's Counting Book
• Benny's Pennies
• City By Numbers
• Domino Addition
• Math Fables: Lessons That Count
• Pattern Fish
• Shapes, Shapes, Shapes
• Ten Black Dots
  

Grade 1

• Fraction Action
• How Big is a Foot?
• Inch by Inch
• Just Enough Carrots
• Math for All Seasons: Mind Stretching Math Riddles
• More Than One
• One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab
• The Coin Counting Book
• When a Line Bends...A Shape Begins
  

Grade 2

• Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday
• Get Up and Go
• One Hundred Hungry Ants
• Only One
• Pigs in the Pantry: Fun with Math and Cooking
• Pigs in the Pantry: Fun with Math and Money
• A Place for Zero: A Math Adventure
• Twelve Snails to One Lizard, A Tale of Mischief and Measurement
• Two of Everything: A Chinese Folktale
  

Grade 3

• Cloak for a Dreamer
• Grapes of Math: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles
• Hershey's Milk Chocolate Bar Fractions Book
• How Much is a Million?
• Math-terpieces: The Art of Problem-Solving
• More M & M's Brand Chocolate Candies Math
• A Place for Zero: A Math Adventure
• Safari Park
• Tiger Math: Learning to Graph from a Baby Tiger
  

Grades 4 and 5

• A Remainder of One
• Count Your Way through Africa
• Count Your Way through Japan
• Count Your Way through Mexico
• Each Orange Had 8 Slices, A Counting Book
• ed emberley's Picture Pie, a circle drawing book
• Grandfather Tang's Story, A Tale Told with Tangrams
• Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?
• Math Curse
• One Grain of Rice
• Round Trip
• Sea Squares
• Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! A Mathematical Story
• The Greedy Triangle
• The King's Chessboard
• 12 Ways to Get to 11
• What's Smaller Than a Pigmy Shrew?
  

Grade 6

• Do You Wanna Bet? Your Chance to Find Out About Probability
• G is for Googol, A Mathematical Alphabet Book
• If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World's People
• Librarian Who Measured the Earth
• Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi
• Sir Cumference and the First Round Table
• Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland
• Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone
• The Adventures of Penrose, The Mathematical Cat