Title |
Author |
Grade |
Comments |
| The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins | Seuss | PK-3 |
Series, permutations, larger numbers |
| The 512 Ants on Sullivan Street | Losi | PK-3 |
Sequences, doubling to 512 Ants |
| A Grain of Rice | Pittman | 4-6 |
Doubling, powers of two, exponential growth, large numbers |
| A Million Chameleons | Young | PK-3 |
Million; large numbers |
| A Million Fish, More or Less | McKissack | PK-3 |
Multicultural story, millions |
| Among the Odds & Evens: A Tale of Adventure | Turner | PK-3 |
Even/odd
numbers and their properties Lesson |
| Anno's Counting House (oop) | Anno | PK-3 |
One by one; can read book backwards |
| Anno's Hat Tricks | Anno | PK-3 |
Guessing tricks |
| Anno's Magic Seeds | Anno | PK-3 |
Doubling; addition/subtraction |
| Apt 3 | Keats | PK-3 |
Estimating |
| The Baker's Dozen | Forest | PK-3 |
Baker's dozen (13); number relationships |
| Bats on Parade | Appelt | PK-3 |
385 marching band bats |
| Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares | Murphy | 4-8 |
Magic squares |
| Betcha! | Murphy | PK-3 |
Estimation Webpage |
| Big Numbers | Packard | PK-3 |
Pictures of large numbers to quadrillion; powers of ten; infinity |
| Billions of Bugs (oop) | Petie | PK-3 |
Billions |
| Bunches & Bunches of Bunnies (oop) | Mathews | PK-3 |
Square numbers |
| The Candy Corn Contest | Giff | PK-3 |
Estimation; Thanksgiving; third grade class |
| Caps for Sale | Slobodkina | PK-3 |
Patterns, permutations |
| The Case of the Missing Birthday Party | Rocklin | PK-3 |
Place value |
| Circus Shapes | Murphy | PK-3 |
Estimation |
| Counting Crocodiles | Sierra | K-2 |
Counting 1-10; summing all animals |
| Counting our Way to the 100th Day | Franco | K-5 |
100 poems touching on the different patterns related to the number 100 |
| Coyotes All Around | Murphy | PK-3 |
Estimation; rounding |
| Dave's Down-To-Earth Rock Shop | Murphy | 4-6 |
Set theory; classification |
| Dinosaur Deals | Murphy | PK-3 |
Equivalent numbers |
| Divide & Ride | Murphy | PK-3 |
Amusement park, prime numbers, remainders |
| Even Steven and Odd Todd | Cristald | PK-3 |
Even, odd numbers Even & odd Even/odd in world |
| Germs Make Me Sick | Berger | PK-3 |
Doubling Lesson |
| The Giant Jam Sandwich | Lord | PK-3 |
Millions |
| Goldilocks & the Three Bears | Marshall | PK-3 |
1-1 correspondence Lesson 1989 Caldecott |
| The Great Math Tattle Battle | Bowen | 2-5 |
Addition/subtraction; number sense; multiplication |
| Half Magic | Eager | 4-6 |
Halving & doubling |
| Henry the Fourth | Murphy | PK-3 |
Ordinal numbers |
| How Many Feet? How Many Tails? | Burns | K-2 |
Riddles about summing feet and tails |
| How Many Stars in the Sky | Hort | PK-3 |
Counting stars; large numbers; infinity; African American people |
| How Much is a Million? | Schwartz | PK-3 |
Million, billion, trillion |
| I Can Count the Petals of a Flower | Wahl | |
Even/odd, primes/composites, factors |
| I Love You More | Cooley | PK-3 |
Infinity and beyond |
| Is A Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? (Spanish) | Wells | PK-3 |
Large numbers, size Webpage |
| It's Pumpkin Time | Hall | PK-3 |
Seasons, counting, sequencing |
| Just Enough Carrots | Murphy | PK-3 |
Comparison; more, fewer, same |
| The King's Chessboard | Birch | PK-3 |
Multicultural story, powers of 2; large numbers |
| Less Than Zero | Murphy | PK-3 |
Negative numbers; adding & subtracting; graph |
| The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures | Tahan | 5-10 |
Math-related adventures in the ancient Arab world |
| Math Fables | Tang | PK-1 |
Number sense; place value; subitization |
| Math for All Seasons | Tang | 2-5 |
Number sense; problem solving |
| Math in a Bath | Atherlay | PK-3 |
Mathematics all day long |
| Melisande (oop) | Nesbit | PK-3 |
Multiplication; doubling; hairy fairy tale |
| Millions of Cats | Gag | PK-3 |
Millions St Ives poem |
| Ming Lo Moves the Mountain | Lobel | PK-3 |
Estimating |
| Missing Mittens | Stuart | PK-3 |
Even and odd |
| Moira's Birthday (Spanish) | Munsch | PK-3 |
Estimation |
| More or Less a Mess | Keenan | PK-3 |
Sorting, patterns |
| More, Fewer, Less | Hoban | PK-3 |
Comparing amounts |
| Mr Magnolia | Blake | All |
Pairs; odd & even |
| Mrs McTats and Her House Full of Cats | Capucilli | 3-6 |
Triangular numbers |
| My Full Moon is Square | Pinczes | PK-3 |
Square numbers |
| My Mum & Dad Make Me Laugh | Sharratt | |
Patterns and shapes |
| Next Please | Jandl & Junge | K-1 |
Ordinal numbers |
| No Jumping on the Bed | Arnold | PK-3 |
"I've told you a million times!" |
| Ocean Counting | Pallotta | K-3 |
Even and odd numbers |
| Odd and Even | Tucker | PK-3 |
Odd and even number patterns |
| Odd and Even Socks | Chrismer | PK-3 |
Odd and even numbers |
| Odds & Evens (oop) | Goennel | PK-3 |
Numbers to 13 |
| The Odds Get Even: The Day Odd Numbers Went on Strike | Hall | PK-3 |
Odd and even numbers |
| On Beyond a Million | Schwartz | PK-3 |
Big numbers; powers of ten; googol; infinity |
| One Grain of Rice | Demi | PK-3 |
Multicultural story, powers of 2 Webpage A million dollars |
| One is a Snail Ten is a Crab | Sayre & Sayre | PK-3 |
Tens and ones represented by number of feet |
| One Two Three Sassafras! | Murphy | 4-6 |
Numerical order |
| Piece = Part = Portion: Fractions = Decimals = Percents | Gifford | 3-5 |
Fractions in pictures including 1/7 of week and 1/11 of a soccer team |
| Phoebe and the Hot Water Bottles (oop) | Furchgott & Dawson | |
Grouping, graphing, counting to 158 |
| The Rajah's Rice | Barry | PK-3 |
Multicultural story, powers of 2 |
| Rabbit's Pajama Party | Murphy | PK-3 |
Sequences |
| Sea Squares | Hulme | PK-3 |
Square numbers; square roots; arrays |
| Seaweed Soup | Murphy | PK-3 |
One-to-one correspondence; matching sets |
| Six Foolish Fishermen | San Souci & Kennedy | PK-3 |
A plan to fish without enough poles goes awry; logic and errors of counting |
| Spunky Monkeys on Parade | Murphy | K-2 |
Counting by twos, threes, fours |
|
Stone
Soup 1948 Caldecott |
Brown | PK-3 |
Multicultural story, cooking |
| Teddy Bears' Picnic | Kennedy | PK-3 |
Counting,
sorting, comparing |
| Ten Times Better | Michelson & Baskin | PK-3 |
Powers of ten |
| The Tiger Who Came to Tea | Kerr | PK-3 |
Ordinal numbers |
| The Token Gift | McKibbon | PK-3 |
Powers of two; large numbers; exponential growth |
| The Toothpaste Millionaire | Merrill | 4-6 |
Million; money |
| The Twelve Circus Rings | Chwast | PK-3 |
Sum sequence of entertainers (handshake problem) |
| The Twelve Days of Christmas | (various) | |
Christmas Lesson ideas |
| The Warrior and the Wise Man | Wisniewski | PK-3 |
Moral of the story |
| Thinking | Allington | PK-3 |
Series |
| Three Little Kittens | Nursery
rhyme |
|
Online game |
| Twelve Days of Christmas Cats | Daily | PK-3 |
Christmas, cats |
| Two by Two | Reid | PK-3 |
Noah & ark; square numbers; multiplication; problem solving |
| Two Hundred Rabbits (oop) | Anderson | |
Composite/prime numbers, factors |
| Underwater Counting: Even Numbers | Pallotta | K-3 |
Even numbers |
| Uno's Garden | Base | 1-8 |
Sequences, prime numbers, multiplication as repeated addition, squared and cubed numbers |
| What's a Pair? What's a Dozen? | Swinburne | PK-3 |
Words indicating two and twelve |
| Who Sank the Boat? | Allen | PK-3 |
Patterns; weight, balance, capacity; prediction Webpage |
| Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears | Aardema | PK-3 |
Patterns; multicultural 1976 Caldecott |
| Wild Fibonacci | Hulme | PK-3 |
Fibonacci numbers in nature |
| Zero: Is It Something? Is It Nothing? | Zaslavsky | PK-3 |
Zero |
| Zero is Not Nothing | Sitomer | PK-3 |
Zero |