In the middle of doing some research, I found an article by Marilyn Burns about math and reading. I kept digging and found this list of great picture books for teaching math. Wow!
Math Picture Books
You might have noticed I’ve started discussing picture books here on MathFour.com. With this list by Marilyn Burns, I’m looking forward to doing a lot more.
Here’s the list of math in picture books that I have discussed so far:
- One Grain of Rice
- Perfect Square
- The Grapes of Math
- What’s Your Angle Pythagoras?
- One, Two, Three!
- Blockhead: The Life of Fibonacci
- Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland
- 1+1=5 And Other Unlikely Additions
- Katy & The Big Snow
- You Can Count on Monsters
- Ferdinand (hsbapost.com)
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (hsbapost.com)
- How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World (hsbapost.com)
- The Pumpkin Runner (hsbapost.com)
Do you have any favorite math picture books? Share the titles in the comments. And don’t forget to share this list on twitter!
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Speaking of Marilyn Burns, we’ve been reading The Greedy Triangle. A book that’s not math, but still has math in it and is fun is “Press Here” by Hevre Tullet. My son loved it and after a few readings made his own “book pages” with sticker dots that had some simple instructions I had to follow.
Putting those on my list now, Yelena! I have told myself that I can’t buy new books until I publish info about the ones I have. Guess I’ll be getting on my publishing stick!
🙂 Thanks for stopping by!
Zero the Hero has been a favorite with all 3 of my under 6 children
Thanks for the info, Carmen! Is it this one? http://www.drjean.org/html/monthly_act/act_2006/01_Jan/pg03d.html
No, its actually this one: http://us.macmillan.com/zerothehero/JoanHolub
Very cool, Carmen. Thanks so much for sharing it!
I love 1,2,3 By The Sea. A great counting book. You can also get it on the ipad-
https://p3769.myubam.com/p/2082/123by-the-sea
Thanks for the information, Janice. I’m going to have to con you out of a copy of this!