Don’t leave out math books when building your home library. There are many delightful books about math. Here’s a list of our favorites.
Living Math Booklists
- Living Math Book List
- Living Math Booklists listed by grade level
- Love2Learn2Day
- Read any good math lately? by David Jackman Whitin
- The Best Children’s Books Math List
Living Math Books for Preschoolers
*Many of these books are also enjoyed by older students.
- Anno’s Counting Book by Mitsumasa Anno
- Anno’s Counting House by Mitsumasa Anno (OOP)
- Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3 by Bill Martin Jr.
- Richard Scarry’s Best Counting Book Ever by Richard Scarry
- The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
Living Math Books for Grades 1-3
*Many of these books are also enjoyed by older students.
- Knots on a Counting Rope by Bill Martin, Jr.
- Pastry School in Paris: An Adventure in Capacity by Cindy Neuschwander
- Sir Cumference and All the King’s Tens by Cindy Neuschwander
- Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi by Cindy Neuschwander
- Sir Cumference and the First Round Table by Cindy Neuschwander
- Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland by Cindy Neuschwander
- Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter by Cindy Neuschwander
- Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone by Cindy Neuschwander
Living Math Books for Grades 4-6
*Many of these books are also enjoyed by older students.
- 365 Penguins by Jean-Luc Fromental
- Anno’s Magic Seeds by Mitsumasa Anno
- Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar by Masaichiro Anno and Mitsumasa Anno
- Archimedes: Mathematician and Inventor by Martin Gardner
- Galileo and the Magic Numbers by Sidney Rosen
- Mathematicians are People Too, Volume 1 by Luetta Reimer
- Mathematicians are People Too, Volume 2 by Luetta Reimer
- Math Games and Activities from Around the World by Claudia Zaslavsky
- More Math Games and Activities from Around the World by Claudia Zaslavsky
- Number Stories of Long Ago by David Eugene Smith (available for free on Google books)
- Pastry School in Paris: An Adventure in Capacity by Cindy Neuschwander
- Sir Cumference and All the King’s Tens by Cindy Neuschwander
- Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi by Cindy Neuschwander
- Sir Cumference and the First Round Table by Cindy Neuschwander
- Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland by Cindy Neuschwander
- Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter by Cindy Neuschwander
- Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone by Cindy Neuschwander
- Skip Count CD & Book by Math-U-See
- The Day the Numbers Disappeared by Leonard Simon and Jeanne Bendick
Living Math Books for Grades 7-9
*Many of these books are also enjoyed by older students and adults.
- Guesstimation: Solving the World’s Problems on the Back of a Cocktail Napkin by Lawrence Weinstein
- How to Solve It by George Polya
- My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles by Martin Gardner
- The World of Mathematics by James Newman
Living Math Books for 10th Grade through Adult
- Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan
- Is God a Mathematician? by Mario Livio
- Mathematics: Is God Silent? by James Nickel
- Measurement by Paul Lockhart
- Street Fighting Mathematics by Sanjoy Mahajan
- The Art of the Infinite: The Pleasures of Mathematics by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan
Teacher Resources and Development
- Family Math by Jean Kerr Stenmark, Virginia Thompson, and Ruth Coseey
- Games for Math by Peggy Kaye
- Good Questions: Great Ways to Differentiate Mathematics Instruction by Marian Small
- Good Questions for Math Teaching, Why Ask Them and What to Ask, Grades K-6 by Peter Sullivan and Pat Lilburn
- Good Questions for Math Teaching: Why Ask Them And What to Ask, Grades 5-8 by Nancy Canavan Anderson and Lainie Schuster
- Let’s Play Math by Denise Gaskins
- Number Sense and Nonsense: Building Math Creativity and Confidence Through Number Play by Claudia Zaslavsky
- Out of the Labyrinth: Setting Mathematics Free by Robert Kaplan and Ellen Kaplan
- Read Any Good Math Lately? by David Jackman Whitin
- Visual Math Dictionary by Don Balka
This post has been linked to The Massive Guide to Homeschool Reading Lists and The Massive Guide to Homeschooling Math
