Cool Math Books to Read!

Kindergarten & 1st Grade

• Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 by Bill Martin (Counting) 

• Zin! Zin! Zin! a Violin by Lloyd Moss (Counting) 

• Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh (Number Sense) 

• Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni (Measurement) 

• Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy (Measurement) 

• The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns (Geometry) 

• A Cloak for the Dreamer by Aileen Friedman (Geometry) 

• Look! – Look! – Look! by Eric Carle (Geometry)

2nd Grade

• Bedtime Math by Laura Overdeck Alexander

• Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst 

• 100 Days of School by Trudy Harris 

• The Button Box by Margarette S. Reid 

• What Comes in 2s, 3s and 4s? by Suzanne Aker 

• The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins 

• Strega Nona by Tomie dePaola 

• One Hundred Angry Ants by Elinor J. Pinczes

3rd Grade

• The Greedy Triangle –Marilyn Burns

• Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy

• What Comes in 2s, 3s and 4s? by Suzanne Aker 

• Math for All Seasons by Tomie dePaola 

• If You Made a Million by David Schwartz 

• The Grapes of Math by Greg Tang

• Millions to Measure

4th Grade

• The Greedy Triangle –Marilyn Burns

• Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream by Marilyn Burns 

• Measuring Penny by Loreen Leedy

• What Comes in 2s, 3s and 4s? by Suzanne Aker  

• Math for All Seasons by Tomie dePaola 

• Fraction Fun by David Adler 

• A Million Fish, More or Less by Patricia McKissack 

• How Much is a Million? by David Schwartz 

• The Grapes of Math by Greg Tang 

• The Best of Times by Greg Tang 

• Grandfather Tang’s Story: A Tale Told with Tangrams by Ann Tompert 

• Millions to Measure

5th Grade

• Fraction Fun by David Adler 

• A Million Fish, More or Less by Patricia McKissack 

• How Much is a Million? by David Schwartz 

• The Grapes of Math by Greg Tang  

• Math for All Seasons by Tomie dePaola

• The Best of Times by Greg Tang 

• Grandfather Tang’s Story: A Tale Told with Tangrams by Ann Tompert 

• Millions to Measure

Grades 6-8

• Anno’s Magic Seeds by Mistumasa Anno

• Pigs on the Ball by Amy Axelrod

• The King's Chessboard by David Bircy

• The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns

• Spaghetti and Meatballs for All by Marilyn Burns

• Counting on Frank by Rod Clement

• Do You Wanna Bet? by Jean Cushman

• What’s Your Angle Pythagoras? by Julie Ellis

• How to Lie with Statistics by Darrell Huff

• The Librarian Who Measured the Earth  by Kathryn Lasky

• Arithme–Tickle; An Even Number of Odd Riddle–Rhymes by Patrick Lews

• Socrates and the Three Little Pigs by Tuyosi Mori

• Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland by Cindy Neuschwander

• Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi by Cindy Neuschwander

• Sir Cumference and the First Round Table by Cindy Neuschwander

• Neuschwander, Cindy

• Anno’s Hat Tricks by Akihiro Nozaki

• Math Talk: Mathematical Ideas in Poems for Two Voices by Theoni Pappas

• How Much Is a Million? by David Schwartz

• On Beyond a Million; An Amazing Math Journey by David Schwartz

• G Is for Google; A Math Alphabet Book by David Schwartz

• The Math Curse by Jon Scieska

• The Best of Times by Greg Tang

• Can You Count to a Googol? by Robert E. Wells

• Tiger Math by Ann Nagada

• Eight Hands Round; A Patchwork Alphabet by Ann Whitford