Resources for Teachers and Students
Relevant Math Picture Books
Tier 1 Books: Illustrate the math concept only and does not have a direct story line
Building Blocks of Multiplication, Joseph Midthun and Samuel Hiti
The Best of Times, Greg Tang
The Grapes of Math, Greg Tang
Zero Is the Leaves on the Tree, Betsy Franco
How Much Is A Million? David Schwartz
A Million Dots, Mike Reed Andrew Clements
Zero, Is It Something? Is It Nothing? Claudia Zaslavsky
Big Numbers, Edward Packard
Now For My Next Number, Margaret Park
Tier 2 Books: Have an engaging plot that weaves in the math connection
Breakfast at Danny’s Diner, Judith Stamper
7 x 9 = Trouble, Claudia Mills
Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar, Masaichiro and Mitsumasa Anno
Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do! Stuart Murphy
How Do You Count A Dozen Ducklings? Seon Chae
Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream, Cindy Neuchwander
Ten Times Better, Richard Michelson
The Multiplication Monster, Kimberly Gross
Zero the Hero, Joan Holub
A Place for Zero, Angeline Sparagna LoPresti
On Beyond a Million: An Amazing Math Journey, David Schwartz
Trouble With Monkeys, Lucy Ravish
The King’s Commissioners, Cindy Neuchwander
Tier 3 Books: Not specifically math but can be used to make connections
City by Numbers, Stephen Johnson
Two Ways to Count to Ten, Ruby Dee
Sample Questions to Investigate
- How many days old are you?
- How many roles of toilet paper do we use in a school year?
- How many cartons of milk does the school drink in a month?
- How many miles would your school bus have traveled by Winter Break?
- How many seconds old are you?
- How long will the morning announcements have run by the end of the school year?
- If we have recess for 15 minutes each day, how much outside time will you have enjoyed by Spring Break?
- How many students will it take to stretch the length of the long hall?
- How many pairs of shoes would it take to outline the perimeter of the classroom?
- How many laptops would it take to reach the ceiling of the classroom?
- If we all of the students in grades 2-5 played Minecraft for 60 minutes a week, how many minutes will the students play in all in one week? In six weeks?
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