3-5 Literacy Connections

Resources for Math Literacy Connections Grades 3-5

Number Theory

Grade 3

How Much is a Million, David M. Schwartz. New York: Morrow, 1985

Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying, Jar, Philomel Books, 1983

Too Man Kangaroo Things to Do, Harper Collins, 1996

Boo a Set of Spooky Multiplication Stories, Holiday House, 1995

Charlotte’s Web, E.B. White

The 329th Friend, Marjorie Weinman Sharman, New York: Macmillian Publishers, 1992

Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Louis Sacher. New York: Camelot, 1985

Let’s Investigate Estimating, Marion Smoothey, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 1995

Gator Pie, Louise Matthews. Dodd Mead 7 Co.

Wayside School is Falling Down, Louis Sacher. NY: Lothrop, Lee & Shephard, 1989

Fractions are Parts of Things, J. Richard Dennis. NY: Harper Collins Children’s Books, 1972

Remainder of One, Elinor J. Pinczes, Scholastic, 1993

Math Curse, Jim Scieszka & Lane Smith. Viking, 1995, (The Penquin Group)

Anne’s Hat Trick, Philomel Books, 1984

The Science Book of Numbers, Jack Challoner, Gulliver Books, 1992

A Million Fish, More or Less, Patricia McKissack. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1992

If You Made a Million, David Schwartz, 1989

Gator Pie, Louise Mathews. Dodd Mead, 1979

Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? By Robert Wells, Whitman & Company, 1993

Fractions, by David Steinecker. Benchmark Books, 1996

Locks, Crocs & Skeeters, by Nancy Winslow Parker

Greenwillow Books, 1996 Accidents

May Happen, by Charlotte Fultz Jones. Delacorte Press, 1996

The Librarian Who Measured the Earth, by Kathryn Lasky.

Little, Brown & Co., 1994

Algebra

Caps for Sale, Esphyr Slobodkina Scholastic

The I Hate Mathematics! Book by Marilyn Burns. Little, Brown and Co., 1975

20,000 Baseball Cards Under the Sea. John Buller & Susan Schade. NY: Random House, 1991.

Goldilocks and the Three Squares

Geometry

A Light in the Attic (Shapes, p. T1), Shel Silverstein, Harper & Row

The Greedy Triangle, Marilyn Burns: Scholastic, 1994

Right Angles: Paper Folding Geometry, Jo Phillips: Thomas Crownwell Co., 1992.

Grandfather Tang’s Story, Ann Tompert

Measurement

$1.00 Word Riddle Book, Marilyn Burns.

Cuisenaire Inch by Inch, Leo Lionn: Astorhmor, 1960

A Quarter from the Tooth Fairy, Carne Holtzman, Scholastic

How Much is that Guinea Pig in the Window? By Joanne Rocklin, Scholastic Inc.

How Big is a Foot, Rolf Myller

Spaghetti and Meatballs for All! By Marilyn Burns. Scholastic, 1997

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Mathematics Standards-based Curriculum