Literacy+and+Math



Literacy and Math Trade Books
//Fraction Action// //How Big is a Foot?// //Sir Cumference and the First Round Table// //Math Curse// //The Grapes of Math// //Anno’s Mysterious Multiplying Jar// //A Remainder of One// //One Hundred Hungry Ants// //Spaghetti and Meatballs for All// //Lemonade for Sale//
 * by Loreen Leedy
 * Holiday House Publishing (1996) and ISBN 978-0823412440
 * A cast of animal characters are used to help introduce the concept of fractions.
 * by Rolf Myller
 * Yearling Publishing (1991) and ISBN 978-0440404958
 * The King wants to give the Queen something special for her birthday. The Queen has everything, everything except a bed. The trouble is that no one in the Kingdom knows the answer to a very important question: How Big is a Bed?
 * by Cindy Neauschwander and Wayne Geehan
 * Charlesbridge Publishing (1997) and ISBN 978-1570911521
 * When King Arthur and his knights get together, the table they have is so long that everyone has to shout to be heard. A rectangular table is too long and a triangular table is too pointy, but somehow they must sit down and discuss the shape of the future.
 * by Jon Sciecska and Lane Smith
 * Viking Juvenile Publisher (1995) and ISBN 978-0670062997
 * Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes till the bus leaves. Is there enough time? An amusing book about dealing with numbers in everyday life.
 * by Greg Tang and Harry Briggs
 * Scholastic Paperbacks (2001) and ISBN 978-0439598408
 * How is it possible to count a complicated pattern of strawberry seeds or grapes on a vine or camel humps -- in a blink of an eye?
 * by Mitsumasa Anno
 * Putnam Juvenile (1999) and ISBN 978-0698117532
 * Superbly demonstrating the conception of factorials in mathematics.
 * by Elinor J. Pinczes and Bonnie Mackain
 * Houghton Mifflin (2002) and ISBN 978-0618250776
 * Introduces a regiment of 25 beetles on parade. Their blue bug queen "likes things tidy," and when the bugs march two by two, she notices that one bug brings up the rear.
 * by Elinor J. Pinczes and Bonnie Mackain
 * Houghton Mifflin (1999) and ISBN 978-0395971239
 * A rhyming text describes the progress of one hundred ants marching toward a picnic. To travel faster, one ant suggests dividing into two lines of fifty, etc.
 * by Marilyn Burns
 * Scholastic Paperbacks (2008) and ISBN 978-0545044455
 * To seat 32 guests, eight square tables and the appropriate number of chairs are rented and arranged according to a plan devised by Mrs. Comfort. However, as the guests arrive, they rearrange the furniture so they can sit together.
 * by Stuart J. Murphy and Tricia Tusa
 * Harper Trophy Publishing (1997) and ISBN 978-0064467155
 * Children decide to sell lemonade to make money to fix their clubhouse. For three days, they keep a bar graph to track their sales.