Enhance Math Learning with Math Books

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