Never underestimate a favorite book to teach important math concepts! The Naturalist learned to count by fives simply by listening to Jerry Pallotta’s Reeses Pieces Count by Fives (many times!). What a fun and painless way to learn math!
Dealing with Addition by Lynette Long is a fabulous book that presents a math game using only a deck of cards. The game will help drill your child on addition facts. My son loved the game so much that he started inventing his own math games with a deck of cards.
Counting, Number Order
Murphy, Stuart J., Leaping lizards
Murphy, Stuart J., More or less
Murphy, Stuart J., One, Two, Three Sassafrass!
Walsh, Ellen Stoll. Mouse count
Wormell, Christopher. Teeth, tails & tentacles : an animal counting book
Skip Counting, Odds/Evens
Dahl, Michael. Ants at the Picnic: Counting by tens
Dahl, Michael. Lots of Ladybugs! Counting by fives
Dee, Ruby. Two Ways to Count to Ten.
DeRubertis, Barbara. Count on Pablo
Friedman, Aileen. The king’s commissioners
Giganti, Paul. Each Orange has 8 slices.
McGrath, Barbara Barbieri. The “M & M’s” brand count to one hundred book
Murphy, Stuart J., Missing mittens.
Murphy, Stuart J., Spunky monkeys on parade
Pallotta, Jerry. Reese’s Pieces count by fives
Pinczes, Elinor J. Arctic fives arrive
Shapes, Patterns, Matching
Burns, Marilyn. The Greedy Triangle.
Friedman, Aileen. A Cloak for the Dreamer
McGrath, Barbara Barbieri. The M&M’s Brand Color Pattern Book.
Murphy, Stuart J., Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes
Murphy, Stuart J., A house for Birdie
Murphy, Stuart J., 3 little firefighters
Neuschwander, Cindy. Mummy Math
Neuschwander, Cindy. Patterns in Peru
Pallotta, Jerry. Twizzlers shapes and patterns
Place Value
Murphy, Stuart J., Earth Day-hooray!
Addition
Long, Lynette. Domino Addition
Losi, Carol. 512 Ants on Sullivan Street
Kroll, Virginia. Equal Shmequal
Maccarone, Grace. Monster Math Picnic
Murphy, Stuart J., Ready, Set, Hop
Pallotta, Jerry. Hershey Kisses Addition Book
Rauen, Amy. Adding and Subtracting at the Lake.
Tang, Greg. Math fables
Walton, Rick. One more bunny : adding from one to ten
Subtraction
Murphy, Stuart J., Monster musical chairs
Measurement
Clement, Rod. Counting on Frank
Hightower, Susan. Twelve snails to one lizard: a tail of mischief and measurement
Leedy, Loreen. Measuring Penny
Myller, Rolf. How big is a foot?
Pallotta, Jerry. Hershey’s Weights and Measures
Money
Axelrod, Amy. Pigs will be pigs
DeRubertis, Barbara. Deena’s lucky penny
Hoban, Tana. 26 Letters and 99 cents
Maccarone, Grace. Monster Money
Maestro, Betsy and Giulio. Dollars and Cents for Harriet
Murphy, Stuart J. The Penny Pot
Telling Time, Calendars
Murphy, Stuart J., It’s About Time!
Murphy, Stuart J. Pepper’s Journal
Sweeney, Joan. Me Counting Time
Fractions
Leedy, Loreen. Fraction Action.
McMillan, Bruce. Eating Fractions.
Murphy, Stuart J., Give me half!
Murphy, Stuart J., Jump, Kangaroo, Jump!
Pallotta, Jerry. Apple Fractions
Pinczes, Elinor J. Inchworm and a half
Problem Solving/Division/Other
Burns, Marilyn. Spaghetti and Meatballs for all.
Burns, Marilyn. How many feet? How many tails?
Calvert, Pam. Multiplying Menance: The Revenge of Rumplestiltskin
Hulme, Joy N. Sea Squares
Hutchins, Pat. The doorbell rang.
Murphy, Stuart J., Divide and ride
Neuschwander, Cindy. Sir Cumference and the First Round Table
Neuschwander, Cindy. Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream
Pinczes, Elinor J. My Full Moon is Square
Pinczes, Elinor J. One Hundred Hungry Ants
Pinczes, Elinor J. A Remainder of One
Tang, Greg. Math for all seasons
Time-Life for Children. The case of the missing zebra stripes: zoo math
Time-Life for Children. How do octopi eat pizza pie? Pizza math
Time-Life for Children. Play Ball: Sports Math
Tompert, Ann. Grandfather Tang’s Story: A Tale Told with Tangrams.
