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Children's Literature Books for Mathematics
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Spirals
 Date: 1995 Grade(s): 1 - 4 Cost: Out of Print ENC#: 008747
This book, intended for use in elementary mathematics classrooms, defines, discusses, and illustrates different types of spirals. It contains colorful photographs of spirals as they appear in architecture, nature, and other real world settings.
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Puzzles
Date: 1996 Grade(s): 1 - 4 Cost: Out of Print ENC#: 008925
This book is one in a series of six created for young children in the early stages of their mathematical development. Books in this series contain activities, puzzles, and games designed for an adult and a child to enjoy together.
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Time
Date: 1996 Grade(s): 1 - 4 Cost: Out of Print ENC#: 009033
This book on time is one in the TAKE OFF WITH . .
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Counting on Frank
Date: 1991 Grade(s): 4 - 7 Cost: $22.60 ENC#: 009006
This book, for grade 4 and up, presents all sorts of wacky counting and size comparison facts as Henry and his dog, Frank, explore the world from a unique mathematical perspective. The interesting facts are intended to encourage children to think about how math influences their lives.
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Pasta math
Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 3 Cost: $12.95 ENC#: 009704
This teacher's guide, part of the MATH ADVENTURES series for grades K to 3, provides blackline masters, activities, and manipulative ideas that can be used to reinforce and extend the mathematical concepts explored in the illustrated children's book, ALICE IN PASTALAND. This resource has been designed to engage multiple intelligences, including verbal/linguistic, logical/mathematical, and visual/spacial.
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Round table geometry
Date: 1996 Grade(s): 3 - 5 Cost: $12.95 ENC#: 009781
This teacher's guide, part of the MATH ADVENTURES series for grades 1 to 5, can be used to reinforce the geometric concepts presented in the illustrated children's book, SIR CUMFERENCE AND THE FIRST ROUND TABLE. This guide includes ideas for promoting connections between literature and mathematics, activities for manipulating and measuring shapes, and problem solving investigations.
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Sir Cumference and the first round table: a math adventure
Date: 1997 Grade(s): 1 - 5 Cost: $6.95 - $16.95 ENC#: 009844
This illustrated children's book, for grades 1 to 5, emphasizes problem solving, shape, and mathematical vocabulary. King Arthur, fearing that his neighbors, the Circumscribers, might be preparing to make war, calls upon his most trusted knights to develop a plan of action.
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Alice in Pastaland: a math adventure
Date: 1997 Grade(s): K - 3 Cost: $6.95 ENC#: 009845
This illustrated children's book, intended for use in grades K through 3, is a retelling of Lewis Carroll's THE ADVENTURES OF ALICE IN WONDERLAND with an emphasis on number concepts, basic operations, measurement, and problem solving. As in the original tale, Alice shrinks in size, enters a strange new world, and encounters a variety of characters.
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Numbers
Date: 1996 Grade(s): 3 - 4 Cost: $17.25 - $103.50 ENC#: 008400
Part of the Math Live series created for grades 3 and 4, this book presents the concept of numbers from several angles. The series is designed to help intermediate readers develop reasoning and mathematics skills.
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Patterns
Date: 1996 Grade(s): K - 2 Cost: $17.25 - $103.50 ENC#: 008401
Part of the Math Live series created for grades 3 and 4, this book presents the concept of patterns from several perspectives. The series is designed to help intermediate readers develop reasoning and mathematics skills.
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2 x 2 = Boo!: a set of spooky multiplication stories
Date: 1995 Grade(s): 2 - 5 Cost: $15.95 ENC#: 009474
This book uses Halloween characters to colorfully illustrate multiplication facts for numbers zero to five. The first chapter features witches who multiply by zero to make spiders and other creepy crawlies vanish.
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Fraction action
Date: 1994 Grade(s): 3 - 6 Cost: $13.95 ENC#: 009782
This book uses animal characters and colorful illustrations to teach facts about the fractions one-half through one-sixth. Each chapter uses a story format as it explores serious subject matter.
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The greedy triangle
Date: 1994 Grade(s): K - 5 Cost: $15.95 ENC#: 009717
This book, part of the Marilyn BURNS BRAINY DAY BOOK SERIES, invites children in grades K to 5 to wonder about what happens to shapes as they get more sides and more angles. Books in this series invite children into the world of mathematics with stories that introduce specific math concepts along with colorful illustrations.
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The king's commissioners
Date: 1994 Grade(s): 2 - 3 Cost: $15.95 ENC#: 009718
This book, part of the MARILYN BURNS BRAINY DAY BOOK SERIES, demonstrates the number system to children in grades K to 5 by introducing the concept of counting by grouping. Books in this series invite children into the world of mathematics with stories that introduce specific math concepts.
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Counting on Frank: a math adventure game
 Date: 1994 Grade(s): 3 - 8 Cost: Out of Print ENC#: 008723
This CD-ROM, designed for grades 3 to 8, is intended to improve students' problem solving and logical reasoning skills by involving them in mathematics adventure games. The games, produced by Electronic Games for Education in Math and Science (E-GEMS), are based on Rod Clement's book, COUNTING ON FRANK.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,008723,00.shtm
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How big is a foot?
Date: 1991 Grade(s): K - 2 Cost: $10.54 ENC#: 009855
This fictitious children's book tells how and why the exact length of a foot was established. The story tells of a king who orders an apprentice carpenter to make a bed six feet by three feet.
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How the second grade got $8,205.50 to visit the Statue of Liberty
Date: 1992 Grade(s): K - 3 Cost: $14.95 ENC#: 009702
This illustrated children's book, intended for use in grades K to 3, details the trials and triumphs of a group of second graders attempting to raise money for a trip to the Statue of Liberty. Written in the style of a treasurer's report, this book addresses basic money concepts such as profit and expenses.
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Two of everything
Date: 1993 Grade(s): K - 3 Cost: $15.95 ENC#: 009838
This illustrated children's book, intended for use in grades K to 3, is a retelling of a comic but wise Chinese folktale. The mathematical concept of doubling is embedded in this story.
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Math curse
Date: 1995 Grade(s): 4 - 8 Cost: $16.99 ENC#: 009867
Haunted by the math curse, a student sees every life activity framed as a mathematical problem, from determining the number of flakes in a bowl of cereal to estimating how many M&Ms it would take to measure the length of the Mississippi. (Author/LDR)
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Anno's mysterious multiplying jar
Date: 1983 Grade(s): 2 - 7 Cost: $19.99 ENC#: 007472
This book is for children in grades preK to 3. The book demonstrates the concept of factorials by using colorful pictures, such as rolling landscapes and castles, and a mysterious jar, with some water, which becomes a sea.
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Anno's math games II
Date: 1989 Grade(s): 2 - 5 Cost: Out of Print ENC#: 009868
Through its graphical drawings, this book introduces young children to elementary numerical and spatial concepts. From comparing similarities between two pictures to exploring how dots make pictures and various ways of measuring, the questions encourage development of comparison, counting, and measurement skills.
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Anno's math games III
Date: 1991 Grade(s): 3 - 6 Cost: Out of Print ENC#: 009869
This book provides illustrative drawings to introduce young children to mathematical concepts of topology, triangles, and transformations. For example, Kriss and Kross develop a magic liquid that stretches or shrinks whatever it touches.
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Somewhere in the world right now
Date: 1995 Grade(s): K - 4 Cost: $16.00 ENC#: 007789
This book for children uses illustrations and a simple story to explain the different time zones on Earth and to help readers learn about geography. In the book some events that are happening right now include: A baker is baking bread in London, a baby kangaroo is napping in Australia, and a young girl is feeding her horses in California.
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The story of money
Date: 1994 Grade(s): 1 - 4 Cost: $4.95 ENC#: 001294
This illustrated book traces the historical evolution of money. Topics include bartering, the use of precious objects for money, the first coins, minting coins, countries without money, the evolution of paper money, modern banks, business and profit, taxes, distribution of wealth, and future uses of money.
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Arithmetic
Date: 1993 Grade(s): 1 - 3 Cost: $17.00 ENC#: 006154
This children's picture book joins the text of Carl Sandburg's poem Arithmetic with anamorphic drawings by Ted Rand. An anamorphic drawing shows a distortion of the optical image.
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Amazing & incredible counting stories!: a number of tall tales
Date: 1995 Grade(s): Pre-K - 1 Cost: $14.00 ENC#: 006261
This picture book, intended for younger readers, uses colorful illustrations and sensational, unlikely news events to demonstrate the concept of counting. Readers will read about the 11 telephone trees found growing in the woods or the 4 jelly faucets that proved to be a big time saver, as well as a host of other incredible, numerical news events.
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A number of animals
Date: 1993 Grade(s): Pre-K - 1 Cost: $19.95 ENC#: 006289
This picture book represents the numbers one through ten in symbol, word, and picture. The story focuses on the adventures of one lost chick while helping young students learn to count and recognize animals.
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Fish eyes: a book you can count on
Date: 1990 Grade(s): Pre-K - K Cost: $14.95 ENC#: 006293
This children's counting picture book depicts the colorful fish that a child might see if she or he turned into a fish herself or himself. The narrator, a small black fish with a blue eye, counts the brightly colored fish as they swim in a navy blue background.
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Big fat hen
Date: 1994 Grade(s): Pre-K - K Cost: $13.95 ENC#: 006336
This picture book gives younger readers an opportunity to practice counting skills. The book uses the childhood rhyme that starts out One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, as well as colorful, full page illustrations to demonstrate different numerical quantities.
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One hundred hungry ants
Date: 1993 Grade(s): K - 4 Cost: $16.00 ENC#: 009847
This children's book uses marching verses and whimsical art to describe how a colony of one hundred ants marching towards a picnic were persuaded to divide into rows of two, four, five, and ten so that they could arrive more quickly than marching single file. Drawings clearly depict all one hundred ants in their several formations, illustrating the factors of 100 and the principles of division.
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I spy two eyes: numbers in art
Date: 1993 Grade(s): K - 3 Cost: $19.00 ENC#: 001125
This is a counting book, containing works of art that relate to each number up to twenty. Nineteen paintings and a Japanese woodblock print created by a variety of artists dating from the fifteenth century to the present are included.
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How much is a million?
Date: 1985 Grade(s): 1 - 6 Cost: $17.00 ENC#: 001299
This picture book is designed for grades 1 to 6 to help students conceptualize large numbers such as a million, a billion, and a trillion. The realm of large numbers is introduced in this story through examples in topics ranging from whales to interstellar travel.
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Dinner at the Panda Palace
Date: 1991 Grade(s): Pre-K - 4 Cost: $4.95 ENC#: 006829
This children's counting book with entertaining illustrations describes in rhyme the animal customers who come to dine at the Panda Palace. Among the guests are two carsick lions, three pigs running from a wolf, and six roof painting giraffes.
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Shapes, shapes, shapes
Date: 1986 Grade(s): Pre-K - 3 Cost: $16.00 ENC#: 009848
This book is meant to serve as an imaginative and entertaining first lesson in basic geometry for young children. The first page shows and names various shapes: a circle, a triangle, a star, an oval an others.
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Each orange had 8 slices: a counting book
Date: 1992 Grade(s): 1 - 4 Cost: $16.00 ENC#: 009849
This children's book introduces beginning multiplication concepts and reinforces visual literacy. It also provides the opportunity for counting practice or an introduction to fractions.
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The doorbell rang
Date: 1986 Grade(s): K - 4 Cost: $16.00 ENC#: 009850
This illustrated children's book can be used to introduce the concept of fair division. The story begins with two children and a dozen cookies (six for each).
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More sideways arithmetic from Wayside School
Date: 1994 Grade(s): 3 - 6 Cost: $3.50 ENC#: 009856
This book presents more than 50 brain teasers that can be solved using arithmetic operations and logic. The problems are intended to be rather puzzling at first, and sections supplying clues and hints are included at the back of the book.
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Creative puzzles of the world
Date: 1995 Grade(s): K - 12 Cost: $19.95 ENC#: 006475
This book, designed for grades K to 12, is an introduction to the history, theory, and craftsmanship behind all types of puzzles. It contains over 1,000 puzzles that range in complexity from those that require only pencil and paper or a box of matches, to intricate constructions that require a few hours' work by a fairly skilled carpenter.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,006475,00.shtm
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Geometry in architecture
Date: 1984 Grade(s): 7 - Post-Sec. Cost: Out of Print ENC#: 007847
This resource book reviews geometric concepts through the context of architecture and design, illustrating the relationships among symmetry, harmony, order, and architecture. Each chapter begins with a summary of familiar geometric principles, followed by the authors original observations and insights on the application of geometry to architecture.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,007847,00.shtm
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Visions of symmetry: notebooks, periodic drawings, and related work of M.C. Escher
Date: 1990 Grade(s): 7 - Post-Sec. Cost: $24.95 ENC#: 007848
This book is a biographical account as well as a study of the work of M. C.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,007848,00.shtm
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Symmetry: a unifying concept
Date: 1994 Grade(s): 6 - Post-Sec. Cost: $18.00 ENC#: 008076
This resource book explores the concept of symmetry through the use of visuals, including photographs, drawings, and paintings. Intentionally avoiding technical terms, the authors make the concepts accessible to a broad audience.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,008076,00.shtm
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Operation magic tricks
Date: 1995 Grade(s): 2 - 7 Cost: Out of Print ENC#: 007249
This booklet, for elementary and middle school students, contains a collection of magic number tricks. As students are introduced to the number magic, they are led through a variety of mathematical computations and discoveries.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,007249,00.shtm
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If you made a million
Date: 1989 Grade(s): 1 - 4 Cost: $18.95 ENC#: 001654
Using a story context, this children's picture book introduces the concept of million, develops money concepts, and discusses bank accounts and interest. (AM)
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,001654,00.shtm
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Counting by kangaroos: a multiplication concept book
Date: 1995 Grade(s): K - 4 Cost: $15.95 ENC#: 003811
This book is intended for young readers to illustrate the concept of multiplication. The book employs rhyme schemes and Australian animals to demonstrate multiplication of the integers 1 to 10 by one, two, and three.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,003811,00.shtm
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Aha! Insight
Date: 1978 Grade(s): 7 - 12 Cost: $14.95 ENC#: 006742
This collection of puzzles and brain twisters, developed for grades 7 to 12, is designed to lead to the sudden hunches or short solutions of problems that are called aha! reactions. The puzzles have been classified into six categories: Combinatorial aha! is the study of how things can be arranged.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,006742,00.shtm
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The hands-on marvelous ball book
Date: 1995 Grade(s): 4 - 8 Cost: $16.95 ENC#: 003812
Written for young readers, this picture book contains rhymed verse, with the story line containing unexpected events along with illustrations while discussing how two and three dimensional shapes may be formed using a circle or a sphere. For example, a line from the book says, THE BALL DISAPPEARED, AND IN ITS PLACE WAS A PATTERN OF POINTS, FLOATING IN SPACE.
http://www.enc.org/resources/records/0,1240,003812,00.shtm
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