Category Archives: MATH Story

Book 329: Help Me Learn Addition

Help Me Learn Addition by Jean Marzollo Help Me Learn Addition by Jean Marzollo (author of the I Spy series) is a math picture book story based on the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), for helping kindergarten children work with numbers … Continue reading

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Book 131: Super Spoons to the Rescue, A Math Measuring Story

 The Spoons Eat Ice Cream:  A Math Measuring Story, 20 pages including several student pages and teacher posters  This story asks a question:  “Which is bigger, 1/2 or 1/4 ?”  The family of spoons in this story help others by … Continue reading

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Book 327: Penguin Pairs, Counting by 2s

Penguin Pairs:  Counting by 2s by Amanda Doering Tourville, illustrated by Sharon Holm A book in the COUNT THE CRITTERS series This book teaches counting by 2s as two additional penguins appear in each additional picture.  A counting line at … Continue reading

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Books 304-306: Monkey Books

Today I’m writing in collaboration with Tonya Dirksen’s Strings, Keys, and Melodies Blog for the rhyme “5 Little Monkeys Swinging from the Tree.”  So also see her blog for some more ideas!  Books for this post include the following.  You … Continue reading

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Free Pattern Fish, Pattern Math 47 Page PDF, Book 297

Free Pattern Math PDF Pattern Fish and Pattern Bugs are both written by Trudy Harris who has such excellent pre-math stories for children to build background knowledge for future success and concepts for their math education.  In these books, Trudy Harris uses poetry to engage … Continue reading

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Book 295: Double the Ducks

Double the Ducks Math Start Book by Stuart J. Murphy,Valeria Petrone (Illustrator) Recently, Jackie Higgins wrote a blog post about Double the Ducks, which inspired me to check the book out of the library and read it for myself.  It … Continue reading

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Book 284: 1 + 1 = 5 and Other Unlikely Addtions

1 + 1 = 5 and Other Unlikely Addtions by David LaRochelle, illustrated by Brenda Sexton 1 + 1 =5 by David LaRochelle is perfect for some math fun towards the end of the school year or during summer school. This … Continue reading

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Book 228: The Rockheads by Harriet Ziefert

The Rockheads by Harriet Ziefert, illustrated by Todd McKie The Rockheads is a very fun book for children and it has some math vocabulary for counting (two is a pair, four is a quartet, five is for a basketball team).  … Continue reading

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Book 223: Mind-Stretching Brain Food: MATH POTATOES by Greg Tang

Math Potatoes by Greg Tang, illustrated by Harry Briggs See also my blog post about GRAPES OF MATH by Greg Tang Math Potatoes is seventh in the series including the book Grapes of Math.  This series is intended to help … Continue reading

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