Number Sense

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
Webpage

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