Melissa B Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Does anyone have a list of books they read to go along with math? I have already gone over the Living Math website. I am looking for additional books at the 5th - 12th grade levels, things along the line of String, Straightedge and Shadow or Phantom Tollbooth. Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kathleen in VA Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott This is for the upper grades. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham is not about numbers necessarily, but it is about a man who was a math genius and how he used his gift to save lives. Archimedes and the Door of Science The Dot and the Line by Norton Juster (author of The Phantom Tollbooth) That's all that comes to mind right now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Julie Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 You might try simplycharlottemason.com they have a spot you can put in age and subject matter and get and extensive list of books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 BOOKS Grades K-3 - The Dragon's Scales (Albee) - Sir Cumfrence series (Neuschwander) - Fly on the Ceiling (Glass) - Ben Franklin's Magic Squares (Murphy) - The King's Chessboard (Birch) - One Grain of Rice (Demi) - Greedy Triangle (Burns) - Anno's Counting Book (Anno) - Anno's Math Games (vol. 1, 2, 3) (Anno) - Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar (Anno) - Games for Math (Kaye) Grades 3+ - A Remainder of One (Pinczes) - One Hundred Hungry Ants (Pinczes) - The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure (Enzensberger) - Math Trek: Adventures in the Math Zone (Peterson) - Math Trek 2: A Mathematical Space Odyssey (Peterson) - The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures (Tahan) - The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat (Pappas) - G Is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book (David) - A Gebra Named Al: A Novel (Isdell) - Math Curse by Jon Scieszka Grades 5+ - The Phantom Tollbooth (Juster) - Conned Again, Watson! Cautionary Tales of Logic, Math, and Probability by Colin Bruce - Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians (Reimer) - Exploring the World of Mathematics (Tiner) - Flatland (Abbott) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alana in Canada Posted September 2, 2008 Share Posted September 2, 2008 Yay! Another Lori D. booklist! I took your lists for Grade 3 and Grade 5 boys to the library today--got lots of great stuff for the kids. Thank you! I've now got this one tucked away too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 Hey, Alana, thanks for posting this! That really encourages me that many of the books ARE available at your library, too! I try to make lists of books that are readily available, and not include too many out-of-print or obscure/hard to find titles! : ) Enjoy! Hope something in your library stack connects with each student! : ) Warmest regards, Lori D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woolybear Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 Not a book,but a website with some good math stories. I am not sure about grade levels though, maybe a bit young. I do not know if this link will work: http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~jameis/ If that does not work Google Mathematical Tale Winds. It sounds like the book suggestions you got were all the ones I had known too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scrapbabe Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 I second Lori's list. Here are a couple of others that I didn't see on the list. If they are a duplicate I apologize. The Warlord's Beads (an entire series) The Number Devil Smiles, Shalynn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Melissa B Posted September 3, 2008 Author Share Posted September 3, 2008 Thanks for all of the suggestions!! I'm copying them into my files now. I even have a couple of them on my bookshelf and had forgotten all about them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom31257 Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 This is really for your younger kids, but Stuart Murphy has a series of books called Math Start. They are easy reader fiction picture books that actually use stories to teach math concepts. They are wonderful!!! When we lived in Knoxville, our library had the whole set (Levels 1, 2, & 3) which went into levels as high as multiplication, division, etc. I read one book with dd that was to teach odd/even concepts. She totally understood it after that. Here's a link with more about them. http://www.stuartjmurphy.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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