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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.

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

 


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    1. Lilac Mohr says

      June 13, 2016 at 9:02 pm

      Can I make a recommendation to add to the list? Math and Magic in Wonderland (print or kindle from Amazon) is an interactive math adventure novel where readers can solve classic math and logic riddles along with the characters as they journey through a world inspired by Lewis Carroll’s poetry.

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      • Crystal Wagner says

        June 14, 2016 at 11:32 am

        Sounds interesting. Thanks for the suggestion.

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