Explores using children’s literature in mathematics lessons to provide an interesting and creative context for mathematical exploration.

Picture story books "... provide interesting contexts for mathematics and make maths lessons fun, engaging, and creative, while integrating important literacy skills. "

"In this paper we present the joy and value of employing children’s literature in the middle to upper primary mathematics classroom supported with engaging tasks that will have your students noticing maths in every story they read. "

"The concept of functional thinking as a foundational idea associated with algebraic thinking is explored by Tracey Muir, Leicha Bragg and Sharyn Livy. They provide ideas for using children’s literature as a context to promote functional thinking."

Includes a list of books aligned to Australian Curriculum 

From New Zealand Curriculum - Tahurangi 

"Why use picture books in a maths class? Using picture books with mathematical content can be an effective way to engage students and explore problems within entertaining contexts." 

From Stanford university - Development and Research in Early Math Education Project 

https://everydaymath.uchicago.edu/teachers/k/literature-list/

https://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Resc/Educ/mathkidslit.html

A variety of addition and subtraction stories to explore.