Probability & Statistics

Title
Author
Grade
Comments
"A Closet Full of Shoes" poem Silverstein
 
Simple probability      
Lesson
Bad Luck Brad Herman
PK-3
Bad luck is sometime a function of probability
Bart's Amazing Charts Ochiltree
PK-3
Charts
Boxcar Children #32: The Campout Mystery Warner
4-6
Estimation; bar graphs
Marshmallow video #10
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Twain
 
Mean, median, range     
Webpage
Chrysanthemum Henkes
PK-3
Graph name lengths    Webpage
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Barrett
PK-3
Data analysis & probability; collecting data; graphing
Country Fair Gibbons
PK-3
Data collection
The Cow Buzzed (oop) Zimmerman
& Clemesha
PK-3
Record data, problem solving
The Cow Who Wouldn't Come Down Johnson
PK-3
Which is your favorite animal?
Daley B Blake
PK-3
Data collection
The Day Gogo Went to Vote Sisulu
PK-3
Voting; South Africa
Dear Mr Blueberry James
PK-3
Certain/impossible probabilities   Lesson     Webpage
Do You Wanna Bet? Cushman
4-6
Probable situations   
Lesson
Freight Train/Tren de Carga Spanish Crews
K-2
Arrangements of colors of train cars
Caldecott winner
The Great Turkey Walk Karr
4-6
Collect & analyze data; money; multiplication; graphs    
Lesson
Guess Who My Favorite Person Is? Baylor
All
Statistics
How Do You Lift a Lion? Wells
4-6
Weights, pulleys, simple physics
How Many Snails? Giganti
PK-3
Probability
"Hungry Mungry" in Where the Sidewalk Ends Silverstein
 
Graphing how much he ate
In the Next Three Seconds Morgan
PK-3
Statistical prediction
Jumanji
Caldecott 1982
Allsburg
PK-3
Probability with dice
Lemonade For Sale Murphy
PK-3
Bar graphs
The Long & Short of It Nathan & McCourt
PK-3
Animals parts compared to everyday objects
Looking for Cinderella Dematon
PK-3
Explore relationship between shoe size and height
The Mouse Who Owned the Sun Derby
PK-3
Data analysis
Mysteries & Marvels of Nature Dalby
4-6
Facts about animals, plants, places
The Mysterious Tadpole Kellogg
PK-3
Graph the growing tadpole
No Fair! Holtzman
PK-3
Fair games
Pepper's Journal: A Kitten's First Year Murphy
PK-3
Graphs
Pigs at Odds Axelrod
PK-3
County fair games of chance    Lesson
Poppa's New Pants Medearis
PK-3
Too long pants are shortened too much; multicultural
Probably Pistachio Murphy
 PK-3
Probability; even chance     
Lesson
Red is Best Stineson
 PK-3
Data by favorite color, etc
Socrates & the Three Little Pigs (oop) Anno   Permutations & combinations
Stellaluna
(Spanish)
Cannon
 PK-3
Graphing skills; comparison      
The Sundae Scoop Murphy
PK-3
Combinations & permutations
Webpage
Ten for Dinner Bogart
4-6
Data analysis & probability; diversity
The Three Pigs
Caldecott 2002
Wiesner
PK-3
Generate data and graph     Lesson
Tiger Math Nagda &
Bickel
 4-6
Graphing
Tikki Tikki Tembo Mosel
PK-3
Graphing
The Usborne Book of Facts and Lists Bresler
4-6
Factual data using real pictures/words
What Do You Mean by Average? Means, Medians & Modes James & Barkin
 4-6
Measures of centrality
What's Faster than a Speeding Cheetah? Wells
4-6
Speed; distance; time
Who's Got Spots? Aber
PK-3
Charts & graphs to predict who will get chicken pox