Picture Books to teach Maths Concepts
One of my favourite picture books to use with a class is 'One is a Snail, Ten is a Crab'. I use activities from the NZ math site and observing how the children choose to represent their individual number is good insight into their number knowledge. See the link below.
Check out other Picture books with number content on NZMaths
1. Math Curse by Jon Sciezka
2. One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J. Pinczes
3. Ten Black Dots Board Book by Donald Crews
4. Rosie’s Walk by Pat Hutchins
5. Stories to Solve by George Shannon
6. The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure by Hans Magnus Enzensberger
7. How Much Is a Million? (Reading Rainbow Books (Pb)) by David M. Schwartz
8. Richard Scarry’s Best Counting Book Ever by Richard Scarry
9. The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
10. A Million Dots by Andrew Clements
11. Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 by Bill Martin Jr.
12. One Grain Of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale by Demi
13. A Place for Zero: A Math Adventure by Angeline Sparagna Lopresti
14. Sir Cumference and All the King’s Tens: A Math Adventure by Cindy Neuschwander
15. Harcourt School Publishers Collections: Library Book Grade K Benny’S Pennies by Pat Brisson
16. Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
17. The Grapes Of Math by Greg Tang
18. The Greedy Triangle (Scholastic Bookshelf) by Marilyn Burns
19. Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban
20. Spaghetti And Meatballs For All! (Scholastic Bookshelf: Math Skills) by Marilyn Burns
21. The Doorbell Rang [ THE DOORBELL RANG BY Hutchins, Pat ( Author ) Jan-01-1901 by Pat Hutchins
22. 1, 2, 3 to the Zoo by Eric Carle
23. Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On On by Lois Ehlert
24. Ten Apples Up On Top! by Theo. LeSieg
25. G Is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book by David M. Shcwartz
26. Why Pi? by Johnny Ball
27. Curious George Learns to Count From 1 to 100 by H.A. Rey
28. Pizza Counting by Christina Dobson
29. Math for All Seasons: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles by Greg Tang
30. Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin by Pam Calvert
31. The Wishing Club: A Story About Fractions by Donna Jo Napoli
32. Let’s Count to 100 by Masayuki Sebe
33. Eat Your Math Homework: Recipes for Hungry Minds by Ann McCallum
34. Teddy Bear Math by Barbara Barbieri McGrath
35. Full House: An Invitation to Fractions by Dayle Ann Dodds
36. Even Steven and Odd Todd by Kathryn Cristaldi
37. The Coin Counting Book by Rozanne Lanczak Williams
38. Once Cent, Two Cent, Old Cent, New Cent by Bonnie Worth
39. Sorting by Henry Arthur Pluckrose
40. Fannie in the Kitchen: The Whole Story from Soup to Nuts of How Fannie Farmer Invented Recipes with Precise Measurements by Deborah Hopkinson
41. How Tall How Short How Faraway by David A. Adler
42. Millions to Measure by David M. Schwartz
43. Clockwise: A Time-Telling Tale by Sara Pinto
44. Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy
45. How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin by Margaret McNamara
46. Inchworm and a Half by Elinor J. Pinczes
47. The Berenstain Bears Trouble with Money by Stan and Jan Berenstain
48. All in a Day by Mitsumasa Anno
49. Clocks and More Clocks by Pat Hutchins
50. Great Estimations by Bruce Goldstone
51. Domino Addition by Lynette Long
52. Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang
53. Over in the Meadow by Olive A. Wadsworth
54. Mission: Addition by Loreen Leedy
55. Elevator Magic by Stuart J. Murphy
56. A Very Improbable Story: A Math Adventure by Edward Einhorn
57. Mummy Math : An Adventure in Geometry by Cindy Neuschwander
58. What’s Your Angle Pythagorus? by Julie Ellis
59. The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat by Theoni Pappas
60. The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics by Norton Juster
61. The Amazing Pop-up Multiplication Book by Kate Petty
62. Pattern Fish by Trudy Harris
63. Each Orange Had 8 Slices by Paul Giganti
64. Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar by Masaichiro Anno
65. A Remainder of One by Elinor J. Pinczes
66. Ten Flashing Fireflies by Philemon Sturges
67. Bean Thirteen by Matthew McElligott
68. Divide and Ride by Stuart J. Murphy
69. Math Potatoes: Mind-Stretching Brain Food by Greg Tang
70. My Half Day by Doris Fisher
71. Two Ways to Count to Ten : A Liberian Folktale by Ruby Dee
72. 12 Ways to Get to 11 by Ever Merriam
73. Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream: A Mathematical Story by Cindy Neuschwander
74. Apple Fractions by Jerry Pallotta
75. Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, and Spheres by Tana Hoban
76. Lemonade for Sale by Stuart J.Murphy
77. The Great Graph Contest by Loreen Leedy
78. You Can Count on Monsters: The First 100 Numbers and Their Characters by Richard Evan Schwartz
79. Mouse Shapes by Ellen Stoll Walsh
80. Math-terpieces: The Art of Problem Solving by Greg Tang
81. Gator Pie by Louise Matthews
82.Hershey’s Milk Chocolate Multiplication Book by Jerry Pallotta
83. The Lion’s Share by Matthew McElligott
84. Cut Down to Size at High Noon: A Math Adventure by Scott Sundby
85. One Odd Day by Doris Fisher
86. The King’s Chessboard by David Birch
87. Three Pigs, One Wolf, Seven Magic Shapes by Grace Maccarone
88. If You Were a Fraction by Speed Shaskan
89. The Best of Times by Greg Tang
90. Mapping Penny’s World by Loreen Leedy
91. Beanstalk: The Measure of a Giant (A Math Adventure) by Ann McCallum
92. Once Upon a Dime: A Math Adventure by Nancy Kelly Allen
93. Equal Shmequal by Virginia L. Kroll
94. Shapes that Roll by Karen Nagel
95. Tally O’Malley by Stuart J. Murphy
96. Edgar Allan Poe’s Pie: Math Puzzlers in Classic Poems by J. Patrick Lewis
97. Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney
98. The Multiplying Menace Divides: A Math Adventure by Pam Calvert
99. Is it Larger? Is it Smaller? by Tana Hoban
100. Piece=Part=Portion by Scott Gifford
List compiled by Bekki (Chasing Supermom)
http://www.chasingsupermom.