Online Booklists for Using Literature in Math Instruction

• A Comprehensive Booklist is also available in Now I Get It, by Sue O'Connell (Heinemann). You can find more information about this book at: http://books.heinemann.com/products/E00766.aspx
• You can also find more information about Marilyn Burns' Classroom Math Library Collection at: http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/classroombooks/marilynburns.htm
• Stuart J. Murphy has written the MathStarts book collection that teach a variety of math concepts in contexts that are appealing for children and easy for them to understand. More information about these books, and even lesson plans to go with them, visit: http://www.stuartjmurphy.com/books/math_bibliography.php

Problem Solving:

Problem Solving Booklist: http://sci.tamucc.edu/~eyoung/problem_solving_literature.html

Numbers and Operations:

• Number Sense Booklist: http://sci.tamucc.edu/~eyoung/number_sense_literature.html
• Counting to Ten Booklist: http://sci.tamucc.edu/~eyoung/count_ten_literature.html
• Counting Higher Booklist: http://sci.tamucc.edu/~eyoung/count_higher_literature.html
• Addition and Subtraction Booklist: http://sci.tamucc.edu/~eyoung/add_subt_literature.html
• Multiplication and Division Booklist: http://sci.tamucc.edu/~eyoung/mult_div_literature.html
• Money Booklist: http://sci.tamucc.edu/~eyoung/money_literature.html
• Fractions Booklist: http://sci.tamucc.edu/~eyoung/fractions_literature.html

Click on the title for a lesson plan:

• Mysterious Multiplying Jar by Masaichiro and Mitsumasa Anno (Kathy Buyle)
• Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt (travel expenses)
• Homecoming by Cynthia Voigt (distance travelled and rate of travel)
• How Many, How Much by Shel Silverstein
• Math Curse by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith (Marilyn Kilgore)
• One Inch Tall from Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (Shelley Faerber)
• The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy
• Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar by Masaichiro and Mitsumasa Anno (Joe Gelroth)
• Fraction Fun by David A. Adler
• Germs Make Me Sick by Melvin Berger
• Math Curse by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith (Toni Haddock)
  

Measurement:

• Measurement Booklist: http://sci.tamucc.edu/~eyoung/measure_literature.html
• Ratio and Proportion Booklist: http://sci.tamucc.edu/~eyoung/ratio_prop_literature.html
• Time Booklist: http://sci.tamucc.edu/~eyoung/time_literature.html

Click on the title for a lesson plan:

• The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
• How Tall, How Short, How Faraway by David A. Adler
• Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? By Robert Wells
• Math Curse by Jon Scieszka & Lane Smith
• One Inch Tall from Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein
• Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi by Cindy Neuschwander
• Sir Cumference and the First Round Table by Cindy Neuschwander  (another lesson)

Geometry:

• Geometry Booklist: http://sci.tamucc.edu/~eyoung/geometry_literature.html

Click on the title for a lesson plan:

• Fun Ideas for Getting A-Round in Math CIRCLES by Catherine Sheldrick Ross
• Grandfather Tang's Story, by Ann Tompert
• The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns
• The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy
• Sir Cumference and the First Round Table, by Cindy Neuschwander
• Sir Cumference and the First Round Table by Cindy Neuschwander  (A different lesson)
• Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson

Data Analysis:

•   Probability and Statistics Booklist: http://sci.tamucc.edu/~eyoung/prob_stats_literature.html

Click on the book title for a lesson plan:

Data Analysis:

• The Foot Book by Dr. Seuss
• The Great Turkey Walk by Kathleen Karr
• One Day in the Prairie by Jean Craighead George
• The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton
• What's Faster Than a Speeding Cheetah? By Robert E. Wells
• YIKES! Your Body Up Close by Mike Janulewicz

Probability:

• A Closet Full of Shoes by Shel Silverstein
• Do You Wanna Bet? by Jean Cushman
• The Giver by Lois Lowry
• The Great Turkey Walk by Kathleen Karr
• My Little Sister Ate One Hare by Bill Grossman
• Picture Puzzle Piece by Shel Silverstein
• Probably Pistachio by Stuart J. Murphy
• What's Faster Than a Speeding Cheetah? By Robert E. Wells
• YIKES! Your Body Up Close by Mike Janulewicz

Algebra :

Click on the book title for a lesson plan:

• Among the Odds and Evens: A Tale of Adventure by Pricilla Turner
• Anno's Magic Seeds by Mitsumasa Anno
• Bats on Parade by Kathi Appelt 
• How Many Snails? By Robert Wells
• If You Hopped Like a Frog By David M. Schwartz
• The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy
• The Rajah's Rice: A Mathematical Folktale from India adapted by David Barry