Nichola Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 (edited) I try to do a group math time with my kids once a week for fun. We play a game or read a book together. What are some read aloud books for math that would be good for elementary ages? Edited April 24 by Nichola 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 We enjoyed the Sir Comference series. 3 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss Tick Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 All of the Mitsumasa Anno books got some reading time in our household. A Single Grain of Rice, by Demi was another math book with beautiful illustrations. Also Marilyn Burns' Math for Smarty Pants. Her Big Book of Think is also good, but not strictly math. Some of these books I discovered after my dc were a bit older, so they were individual reads, rather than group reads. If you want more of a story approach you could look at Mathematicians Are People, Too and it's sequel, both by Luetta and Wilbert Reimer. At slightly older ages my dc enjoyed the Encyclopedia Brown style of Math Mysteries in the One Minute Math book by Eric and Natalie Yoder - although I remember a couple were a bit frustrating in their writing style. Hopefully something there is helpful! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shoes+Ships+SealingWax Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 These are aimed a bit older, but good to keep in mind: Math & Magic in Wonderland Math & Magic in Camelot Solving for M * All of the Above The Number Devil * Deals with divorce & parental illness. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philomama Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 Seconding both Sir Cumfrence and Anno! Our son also loves both the Multiplying Menace and Molly and the Mathematical Mysteries. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clarita Posted December 6, 2022 Share Posted December 6, 2022 Bedtime Math is fun for little kids. It has a fun facts then has 3 levels of word problems. It might be too easy for 9 though... 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 Math Curse (Scieszka) -- just for giggles titles below are all "stepped reader" levels for gr. K-3 -- maybe too light for your 9yo... Weighing/Comparison No Fair! (Holtzman) The Dragon's Scales (Albee) Little Numbers (Packard) -- fractional and decimal numbers Graphs Graphs (Bader) Fly on the Ceiling (Glass) Money A Dollar For Penny (Glass) Bowwow Bake Sale (Stamper) A Quarter From the Tooth Fairy (Holtzman) The Case of the Shrunken Allowance (Rocklin/Burns) Arithmetic Cats Add Up (HR3) -- Ochiltree/Dunn-Ramsey -- addition The Mission of Addition (Cleary) -- addition The Action of Subtraction (Cleary) -- subtraction Breakfast at Danny's Diner (Stamper) -- multiplication Too Many Cooks (Buckless) -- multiplication 512 Ants on Sullivan Street (Losi) -- doubling One Hungry Cat (Rocklin/Burns) -- division Two Tickets To Ride ( Slater/Burns) -- division The Smushy Bus (Helakoski) -- all 4 operations Math Puzzles Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares (Murphy/Walz) Three Pigs, One Wolf, Seven Magic Shapes (MacCarone) Fractions Go, Fractions! (Stamper) Pizza Pizzazz (Losi/Burns) Math Matters series (K-3rd) -- math dilemnas with clever character solutions The 100-Pound Problem (Dussling) -- weight All Aboard (Skinner) -- time/schedule Bad Luck Brad (Herman) -- estimating Carrie Measures Up (Aber) -- measuring Chickens on the Move (Pollack) -- area and perimeter Clean Sweep Campers (Penner) -- fractions Everybody Wins (Bruce) -- division Sam's Sneaker Squares (Gabriel) -- measuring Stacks of Trouble (Brenner) -- multiplication Tightwad Tod (Skinner) -- money Where's That Bone (Penner) -- mapping Who's Got Spots (Aber) -- organizing information with tallies and graphs X Marks the Spot (Penner) -- mapping 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abbeyej Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 The Math Curse, by John Scieszka Some of the others listed above (like the Sir Cumference series) are part of the Charlesbridge Math Adventures books, so looking for those can help. My daughter loved What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? The Warlord's Puzzle is about tangrams. There are several other Warlord's books with other math topics... The Number Devil introduces a number of higher-level concepts in simple ways for middle or upper elementary over the course of 12 chapters. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Not_a_Number Posted December 8, 2022 Share Posted December 8, 2022 I’ve done a lot of this with my coop class! Any particular concepts you’d like to include? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knitgrl Posted December 9, 2022 Share Posted December 9, 2022 This website has lots of suggestions, as well. https://www.livingmath.net/reader-index 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nichola Posted December 9, 2022 Author Share Posted December 9, 2022 On 12/7/2022 at 10:59 PM, Not_a_Number said: I’ve done a lot of this with my coop class! Any particular concepts you’d like to include? No, not really. Just an enjoyable story and preferably a range of difficulty, so all the kids could get something out of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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