Count-a-saurus, by Nancy Blumenthal, illustrated by Robert Jay Kaufman, Four Winds Press, New York, NY, 1989Learn to count while also learning about prehistoric animals.
Count-a-saurus, by Nancy Blumenthal, illustrated by Robert Jay Kaufman, Four Winds Press, New York, NY, 1989
Learn to count while also learning about prehistoric animals.
One Crow A counting Rhyme by Jim Aylesworth, illustrated by Ruth Young, J. B. Lippincott, New York, NY 1988
Counting animals on a farm is fun.
Eating Fractions cooked,photographed and written by Bruce McMillan, Scholastic Inc.,New York, 1991
Photos and easy to read text shows how food may be divided into halves, thirds, and fourths followed by the tasty recipes, used for the photos, that use fractions too!
Knowabout Sorting by Henry Pluckrose, photography by Chris Fairclough, Franklin Watts, Inc.,New York, NY,1988
An easy introduction to the idea of sorting objects by color, size, shapes and other characteristics.
Averages by Jane Jonas Srivastava, illustrated by Aliki Brandenberg, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York, NY,1975
A simple explanation of what people may mean by average including the arithmetic mean, median and mode
Yes No Stop Go, Some Patterns in Mathematical Logic by Judith L. Gersting and Joseph E. Kuczkowski, illustrated by Don Madden, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York, NY,1977
An introduction to mathematical logic in the form of a story about a king and the way he keeps his enemies out of the castle and allows his friends into the castle.This, like Averages, is one of a series of Young Math Books from Thomas Y. Crowell Co. that explore many aspects of arithmetic, geometry, graphing, and logic in easy to read form.
The I Hate Mathematics! Book by Marilyn Burns, illustrated by Martha Hairston, Little Brown & Company, Boston, MA, 1975
Magic tricks, puzzles and experiments about ideas from zero to infinity with interesting side trips into geometry, probability and other topics.
The Rooster Who Set Out to See the World by Eric Carle, Franklin Watts, Inc., New York, NY, 1972
A rooster sets out alone and is joined by 2 cats, 3 frogs and so on in a briliantly illustrated story.
Names, Sets and Numbers by Jeanne Bendick, Franklin Watts, Inc.,New York, NY, 1971
An introduction to the idea of sets and classifying things into groups that have some common characteristic.
Mathematics:The Language of Science by George O. Smith, illustrated by Richard C. Prochaska, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, NY 1961
A clear explanation of the historical development of mathematics that can be read by, but will challenge, a fifth or sixth grader who wants to know more about math.
Graphs by Dyno Lowenstein,Franklin Watts, Inc.,New York, NY,1976
An elementary introduction to making and interpreting all kinds of graphs.
(A Graphing hint from the Webmaster: If you have a Macintosh with System 7.5 or later, try the "Full Demo" menu item of the Graphing Calculator in the Apple Menu to see a lot of interesting graphs.)
Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar by Masaichiro & Mitsumasa Anno, Philomel Books, New York, NY 1983
A simple story that starts with counting and then introduces the idea of the factorial in clear illustrations.
Anno's Counting House by Mitsumasa Anno, Philomel Books, New York, NY, 1982
A book about counting that has 2 pages of explanation at the beginning, and then not a word for 44 pages as ten children move, one by one from one house to another.
Straight Lines, Parallel Lines, Perpendicular Lines by Mannis Charosh, illustrated by Enrico Arno, Thomas Y. Crowell Co., New York, NY,1970
An elementary introduction to some ideas in plane geometry.
Many Moons by James Thurber, illustrated by Louis Slobodkin, Harcourt Brace & World, Inc. New York, NY, 1943
A Caldecott Medal winning story about a sick princess who wanted the moon, and the many wild numerical estimates presented as ways to get it for her.
Beyond Facts and Flashcards:Exploring Math With Your Kids by Janice Mokros & TERC, Heinemann, Potsmouth NH, 1996
A resource for parents with a bibliography of additional math resources.
How to solve it; a new aspect of mathematical method by George Polya, Doubleday, Garden City, NY,1957
This is a short, clear book, just a bit beyond the elementary school level, that can be read quite easily by parents who want to improve their own problem solving ability, or who want to explain how to approach math problems to their children. Reading it while in high school, many years ago, helped the webmaster to get through high school math into, and through, MIT so he recommends it highly.
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