Literature To Teach Math
Concepts
Literature To Teach Math
Concepts
| Name of Book | Author | Concept |
| The Money Tree | Sarah Stewart | Value of Money |
| Amanda's Bean's Amazing Dream | Cindy Neuschwander | Multiplication |
| Can You Count to a Googol | Robert E. Wells | Counting / Place Value |
| The Greedy Triangle | Marilyn Burns | Geometry / Polygons / Shapes |
| How Big Is a Foot | Rolf Myller | Measurement |
| Pigs Will Be Pigs | Amy Axelrod | Estimation / Value of Coins |
| How Many Feet in a Bed? | Diane J. Hamm | Addition and Subtraction |
| Two Ways to Count to Ten | Ruby Dee | Counting |
| How Much is a Million | David Schwartz | Addition / Subtraction |
| The 12 Circus Rings | Seymour Chwast | Graphing |
| Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator | Roald Dahl | Graphing |
| Esio Trot | Roald Dahl | Multiplication / Division |
| The King's Chessboard | David Birch | Multiplication / Division / Exponential Growth / Estimation / Pattering / Powers of 2/10, Problem Solving |
| Sam Baker Gone West | Elaine Rahpael | 2-D Geometry |
| Spaghetti and Meatballs for All | Marilyn Burns | Counting |
| The Great Divide | Arrays / Division / Factoring / Prime Numbers | |
| Angles Are Easy as Pie | Robert Forman | 2-D Geometry |
| Fractions Are Parts of Things | Richard Dennis | Fractions / Percents / Decimals |
| Jumanji | Chris Van Allsburg | Probability |
| A Million Fish | Patricia McKissak | Estimation / Computation Strategies |
| If You Made A Million | David Schwartz | Estimation / Computation Strategies |
| The Phantom Tollbooth | Norton Juster | Estimating and Measuring |
| Cactus Hotel | Brenda Guiberson | Tables and Graphs |
| Annabelle Swift, Kindergartner | Amy Schwartz | Estimation / Computation |
| Counting On Frank | Rod Clement | Proportion / Ratio, Estimation, Money Mean/Median/Mode |
| Millions of Cats | Wanda Ga'g | Statistics |
| Fractions Are Parts of Things | Richard Dennis | Percents / Decimals / Fractions |
| If You Made a Million | David Schwartz | Money |
| The King's Commissioners | Aileen Friedman | Counting by 2,5,10/Place Value |
| 26 Letters and 99 Cents | Tana Hoban | Coin Combinations |
| Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday | Judith Viorst | Money |
| The Doorbell Rang | Pat Hutchins | Fractions |
| The Half Birthday Party | Charlotte Pomerantz | Fractions / Parts of a Whole / Measuring |
| 12 Ways to Get to 11 | Eve Merriam | Combinations of 11 |
| Band-Aids: Where the Sidewalk Ends | Shel Silverstein | Creating Number Sentences |
| Who Sank the Boat | Pamela Allen | Combinations of 5 |
| Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar | Anno Masaichiro | Combinations / Groups / Factorials |
| 17 Kings and 42 Elephants | ||
| A Cloak for a Dreamer | Aileen Friedman | Tangrams / Geometry/ Tesselations / Fractions, Area, Perimeter |
| The Hundred Penny Box | Sharon Bell Mathis | Place Value |
| The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins | Dr. Seuss | Place Value |
| Anno's Magic Seeds | Anno Mitsumasa | Statistics |
| Shoes | Elizabeth Winthrop | Statistics |
| The Relatives Came | Cynthia Rylant | Statistics |
| Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt | Lisa Ernst | Fractions / Area |
| Grandfather Tang's Story | Ann Tompert | Geometry / Tangrams |
| Two of Everything | Lily toy Hong | Patterns/Multiplication/Division |
| A Chair for My Mother | Vera Williams | Addition / Subtraction / Money |
| The Giraffe That Walked to Paris | Nancy Milton | Addition/Subtraction/Estimating/Measuring |
| Inch by Inch | Leo Lionni | Measuring/Data |
| The Tangram Musician | Lisa Ernst | Tangrams / Spatial Relationships |
| The Quilt | Ann Jonas | Patterns/Geometry |
| The Bedspread | Sylvia Fair | Venn Diagrams / Symmetry |
| Benny's Pennies | Pat Brisson | K-1 Counting Money |
| The Fraction Family Heads West | Marti Dryk | Fractions / Number Patterns / Number sequences / Proportions & Ratios |
| Napping House | Audrey Wood | Problem Solving |
| 100 Hungry Ants | Eleanor Pinczee | Multiplication/Division |
| One Monday Morning | Uri Shulevitz | Graphing |
| Only One | Marc Harshman | Counting Book |
| Once Upon a Dime | Nancy K. Allen | Estimation, Measurement, Money, Problem Solving |
| On Beyond a Million | David M. Schwartz | Exponents, Number Sense, Powers of 2 / 10, Problem Solving |
| One Grain of Rice | Demi | Exponential Growth, Graphing, Multiplication, Powers of 2/10 |
| Mr. Archimedes' Bath | Pamela Allen | Graphing, Mean/Mean/Mode, |
| Moira's Birthday | Robert Munsch | Calendars, Graphing, Money, Multiples, Percent |
| More M & M's Math | Barbara B. McGrath | Data Collection/Analysis / Estimation/ Factoring/ Frequency Distribution/ Graphing/ Mean/Mode/Median/Percent |
| Mr. Grump's Outing | John Burningham | Graphing |
| The Tortoise Who Bragged | Jean Merrill | Geometric Shapes/Perimeter/Spatial Sense |
| The Biggest Birthday Cake in the World | Elizabeth Spurr | Fractions/Graphing /Measurement/Proportion/Ratios/Problem Solving |
| Ten Black Dots | Donald Crews | Counting/Collecting |
| From One to One Hundred | Teri Sloat | Counting/Number Sense |
| The Button Box | Margarette Reid | Collecting / Sorting Data / Fractions |
| The Philharmonic Gets Dressed | Karla Kuskin | Story Problems/Addition/Subtraction |
| Peter's Pockets | Eve Rice | Add / Place Value / Even/Odd |
| Six Dinner Sid | Inga Moore | Repeated Add/Multiplication |
| 10 for Dinner | Jo Ellen Bogart | Facts of 10/Addition/Subtraction |
| Ten Sly Piranhas | William Wise | Subtraction |
| P. Bear's New Year's Party | Paul Owen Lewis | Problem Solving/Time |
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