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.

Activity based on this book.

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.