Math in Literature List Compiled by DeeGee Lester, Education Director The Parthenon GEOMETRY Title Author Grade Angles are as Easy as Pie Froman 4-8 Anno’s Math Games III (Spanish) Anno PreK-3 A Triangle for Adaora: African Book of Shapes Onyefulu PreK-3 (Nigerian culture; shapes in nature). Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad Ringold PreK-3 (Perimeter of quilt shapes; Quilts & the Underground Railroad; Quilt codes). Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes Murphy PreK-3 (3-D shapes) The Case of the Backyard Treasure Rocklin PreK-3 (Patterns, measure, time, maps) Chickens on the Move Pollack & Belviso PreK-3 (Perimeter, measurement, shapes) Eye Spy Shapes: A Peephole Book MacKinnon & Sieveking PreK-3 (Clues to shapes) Flat Stanley Brown PreK-3 (2D & 3D representations, project/sightings) How We Learned the Earth is Round Lauber PreK-3 (Circumference) I Spy Shapes in Art Micklethwait PreK-3 (Geometric shapes in art pieces – great Art2STEM) Let’s Fly a Kite Murphy PreK-3 (Symmetry) The Librarian Who Measured the Earth Lasky PreK-3 (Eratosethenes; circumference) Look At Annette Walter PreK-3 (Symmetry in mirrors) Louise Builds a House Pfanner PreK-3 (Architectural shapes) Mummy Math: An Adventure in Geometry Neushwander 1-4
“One Inch Tall” in Where the Sidewalk Ends Silverstein All (If you were one inch tall, how big would objets be?) “Shapes” in A Light in the Attic Silverstein All (Ratio between diameter, circumference, number of rolls of the circle) Swamp Angel (A Caldecott Honor) Isaacs PreK-3 (Compare the heights of mothers and children) The Shrinking of Treehorn Heide PreK-3 (Treehorn keeps shrinking in size) Measurement Alley Oop! Mayer PreK-3 (Estimate the weight of each animal) Block City Stevenson PreK-3 (Measurement; architecture, city design) Fannie in the Kitchen Hopkinson PreK-3 How Big is a Foot? Myller PreK-3 How Tall, How Short, How Far Away? Adler PreK-3 How to Weigh an Elephant Barner PreK-3 The 100 Pound Problem Dussling PreK-3 Is the Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? Wells PreK-3 Jim and the Beanstalk Briggs PreK-3 (Twisted tale of measurement and proportion) Keep Your Distance Herman PreK-3 Lulu’s Lemonade Derubertis PreK-3 (Recipe doubling, measurements) The Man Who Walked Between the Towers Gerstein K-6 (Caldecott book; highest towers/ 44 pound cable) Mapping Penny’s World Leedy PreK-3 The Math Chef: Over 60 Recipes/Activities D’Amico & Eich 4-6 Millions to Measure Schwartz PreK-3 Mouse Views: What the Class Pet Saw McMillan PreK-3 My Place in Space Hirst PreK-3 Nature Got there First Hutchins 4-7 (Spatial relations; weight, geometry) Pigs in the Pantry Axelrod PreK-3 Pigs on the Move Axelrod PreK-3 Star Maiden Esbensen PreK-3
(Non-standard measurement; Native American tale) Tell Me How Far It Is (Spanish) Willis PreK-3 The Borrowers ` Norton 4-6 (Scale, ratio and proportion) The Village of Round & Square Houses Grifalconi PreK-3 (African village story) Who Sank the Boat? Allen PreK-3 (Weight, balance, capacity, estimate/predict) Wilma Unlimited Krull 4-6 (Measurement; timeline; Olympics) Probability & Statistics Boxcar Children #32: The Campout Mystery Warner 4-6 The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County Twain All Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs Barrett PreK-3 (Data analysis, and probability; collecting data) How Do You Lift a Lion? Wells 4-6 “Hungry Mungry” in Where the Sidewalk Ends Silverstein 4-6 (Graphing how much he ate) Jumanji (Caldecott 1982) Allsburg PreK-3 The Long & Short of It Nathan & McCourt PreK-3 Mysteries and Marvels of Nature Dalby 4-6 Pigs At Odds Axelrod PreK-3 Socrates & the Three Little Pigs Anno 4-6 (Permutations and combinations) Ten for Dinner Bogart 4-6 The Three Pigs (Caldecott 2002) Wiesner PreK-3 What Do You Mean By Average, Means, Medians & Modes? James & Barkin 4-6 What’s Faster Than a Speeding Cheetah? Wells 4-6 Other Math/Lit Books A Wrinkle in Time Madeleine l’engle The Adventures of Penrose - the Mathematical Cat Theoni Pappas The Further Adventures of Penrose Theoni Pappas