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Compiled by Judi Paradis
 * Favorite Math Books**

Warthogs in the Kitchen by Pamela Duncan Edwards: Eight bumbling warthogs wreak havoc in a once tidy kitchen. It's all in a good cause: baking ten muffins for instant consumption.
 * 2 X 2 = Boo by Loreen Leedy**: Witches, vampires, bats, and skeletons are some of the Halloween creatures in these cheerfully ghoulish math stories. How do you make boo stew for 5 if the recipe serves only one? Answer: multiply all the ingredients by 5; that means multiplying five bouncy eyeballs, 10 knobby knuckles, 15 ears, and 20 toes.
 * Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst:** Although Alexander and his money are quickly parted, he comes to realize all the things that can be done with a dollar.
 * Anno’s Counting Book by Mitsumama Anno**: Introduces counting and number systems by showing mathematical relationships in nature.
 * Clocks and More Clocks** by Pat Hutchins: Not one of Mr. Higgins' four clocks kept the correct time until the Clockmaker assured him they were all correct.
 * Count on Frank** by Rod Clement: A boy and his dog present amusing counting, size comparison, and mathematical facts.
 * The Door Bell Rang** by Pat Hutchins: Each time the doorbell rings, there are more people who have come to share Ma's wonderful cookies.
 * Feast for 10** by Cathryn Falwell: Numbers from one to ten are used to tell how members of a family shop and work together to prepare a meal.
 * Five Little Monkeys** by Eileen Christelow: Text and pictures present children’s song about monkeys who fall and bump their heads.
 * Fraction Action** by Loreen Leedy: This picture book presents math concepts through five little stories about teacher Miss Prime, possibly a slender hippo, and her multispecies students
 * A Giraffe and a Half** by Shel Silverstein: Cumulative rhymed text explains what might happen if you had a giraffe that stretched another half, put on a hat in which lived a rat that looked cute in a suit, and so on.
 * Grandfather Tang’s Story** by Ann Tompert: Grandfather tells a story about shape-changing fox fairies who try to best each other until a hunter brings danger to both of them.
 * The Greedy Triangle** by Marilyn Burns: As a triangle keeps adding more angles, he discovers all the great new shapes he can be, until he forms a circle.
 * How Many Feet in the Bed** by Diane Hamm Johnson: Count the feet as a family of five tumble in and out of bed on a Sunday morning.
 * How Much is a Million** by David Schwartz: Text and pictures try to make possible the conceptualization of a million, a billion, and a trillion.
 * The Icky Bug Counting Book** by Jerry Pallotta: A counting book with facts and illustrations of insects
 * If the World Were a Village** by David Smalls: Breaks down the population of the world into a collection of one hundred representative people and describes what one would find in this global village, covering languages, ages, religions, food, air and water, schooling, and possessions, accompanied by vivid color illustrations.
 * The Librarian Who Measured the Earth** by Kathryn Lasky: Describes the life and work of Eratosthenes, the Greek geographer and astronomer who accurately measured the circumference of the Earth.
 * Mapping Penny’s World** by Loreen Leedy: Lisa’s class is learning about maps, so she decides to draw one of her bedroom and then makes a few for her Boston terrier.
 * The Math Curse** by Jon Scieszka: When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.
 * Measuring Penny** by Loreen Leedy: Lisa has a homework assignment to measure something in as many ways as she can, using standard and nonstandard units. "Use your imagination!" is the last instruction the teacher gives the students. Lisa chooses her Boston terrier and the fun begins
 * Moja means one : Swahili counting book** by Muriel L. Feelings: The numbers one through ten in Swahili accompany two-page illustrations of various aspects of East African life.
 * One hundred hungry ants by Elinor J. Pinczes:** **:** One hundred hungry ants head towards a picnic to get yummies for their tummies. They stop to change their line formation, showing different divisions of one hundred, causing them to lose both time and food in the end
 * Over in the meadow by Ezra Jack Keats:** An old nursery poem introduces animals and their young and the numbers one through ten.
 * A remainder of one by Elinor J. Pinczes**: When the queen of the bugs demands that her army march in even lines, Private Joe divides the marchers into more and more lines so that he will not be left out of the parade.
 * Sea squares byJoy N. Hulme**: Rhyming text and illustrations of such sea animals as whale, gulls, clown fish, and seal provide opportunities to practice counting and squaring numbers from one to ten.
 * Shapes, shapes, shapes / by Tana Hoban**: Photographs of familiar objects such as a chair, barrettes, and a manhole cover introduce shapes.
 * Ten black dots / Donald Crews**: A counting book which shows what can be done with ten black dots--one can make a sun, two a fox's eyes, or eight the wheels of a train.


 * Don’t forget to think about adding some math to your life with:**

Cooking is measuring, fractions, estimating, timing, AND EATING. Double a recipe, cut it in half, but be sure to involve your children in cooking activities and talk to them about the math involved.
 * Cook books!**

Origami, paper airplanes, sewing, knitting, quilting, carpentry all involve measurement, geometry, estimation, and FOLLOWING DIRECTIONS IN A SEQUENCE to get a good result.
 * Craft books**

Like a cookbook, but with less delicious results. Bring home some science experiment books to get your children to see more practical applications for math.
 * Science experiment books**

Stats! The number of kids in our second grade who can figure out an ERA is pretty impressive. There is a theory that sports fans have better math skills just from figuring out rankings, player’s averages, etc. Don’t forget to discuss the math in sports!
 * Sports Books, magazines and news sections—**

Great websites (thanks to Betty Bruhmuller for many suggestions): If they’re playing on the computer—guide them to these sites designed to improve math skills. For more ideas checkout [|www.ikeepbookmarks.com/IT] to find sites recommended by Waltham’s technology teachers.

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 * Math cats: [|www.mathcats.com] (games and skills)
 * Joe The Dragon: http://www.joethedragon.co.uk/maths.html (a Welsh site with lots of games and puzzles)
 * Basic Skill Practice: http://classroom.jc-schools.net/basic/mathasmd.html (Basic skill drills PLUS links to dozens of other math sites
 * Escape from Knab: http://www.escapefromknab.com/%00 (a game that teaches kids financial skills, which become more sophisticated the longer you play)
 * Aunty Math: http://www.dupagechildrensmuseum.org/aunty/index.html (lots of challenges and puzzles to explore)
 * Math Dictionary: http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/maths/dictionary.html (For helping with homework—dozens of math terms are defined here)