Student Reading list
Brimmer, Larry Dane. Monkey Math. CT: Children's Press. 2007. A simple counting book using basic estimation.
Clements, Andrew and Reed, Mike. A Million Dots. New York: Simon and Schuster Children's Publisher. 2002. A picture book show the child what a millon dots would look like.
Franco, Betsy. Time to Estimate. Mankato,Minnesota: Capstone Press. 2002.
Franco, Betsy. Counting Our Way to the 100th Day. New York; Margaret McElderry. 2004. Poems and rhymes about the 100 th day of school
Hoban, Tana. Let's Count. New York: William Morrow and Company. Inc. 1999. A counting book in which the origin of numbers is discussed.
Johnson, Stephen T. City by Numbers. New York: Penguin Books. 1998. A picture book showing how numbers are represented in everyday situations
Linn, Charles F. Estimation. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 1970. This book shares different strategies for estimating. It also shows how important it is to know how to estimate.
Murphy, Stuart J. Betcha. New York: HarperCollins Publisher. 1997. A story about winning a contest by estimating.
Murphy, Stuart J. 100 Days of Cool. Harper Trophy. 2004. A story about the 100 days of school and children in the story being cool for all 100 days.
Schmandt-Besserat,Denise. History of Counting. New York: Harper Publisher 1999. A child's historical book about counting and numbers.
Schwartz, David. On Beyond a Million. Double Day. 1999. A story about numbers higher than a million and what they look like. Scientific Notation is shown as well as the powers of ten. The googol is discussed (100 zeros)
Zaslavsky, Claudia. Zero. Is It Something? Is It Nothing? New York: Franklin Watts. 1989. Riddles, poems, and activities about numbers.
Internet Resources
McPhee, Isaac M. http://math.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_number_zero The Number Zero The History of Formulating Nothing
Ladhani, Rafiq. "Zero." [Available Online] Available from http://www.bookrags.com/research/zero-mmat-04/.[cited July 8, 2008]
O'Connor J J and Robertson E F http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Zero.html A history of Zero
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