This week I will focus on math books. I happen to love math but even if you have students who don’t enjoy math, they still will likely enjoy these books.
Panda Math by Ann Whitehead Nagda gives information about the baby panda that were born in the San Diego zoo. Each right hand page gives information about the pandas and the left hand side has math information along with graphs to illustrate the principles. Full color photos illustrate the story.
I have a set of math books that focus on careers and give information of how math is used in the different careers and subject areas. Examples include military time, time zones, calendars in the Time Math book, the metric system, area, bridge spans in the Construction Math book, and notes, octaves, beats per minute, buying music and MP3s in the Music Math book. These are part of the Math and My World set. These three are the only ones that I have, but there are more titles available in this set.
Another set of books on how math is used in careers is Real Life Math. I opened this set and loved it at once! In this book, Zoo Vet, students learn about parts of the job, and the logistics of caring for zoo animals. I include some of the inside pages so you can see more of what this book is about. Other titles include Extreme Sports, Be a Stuntman, Fly a Jumbo Jet, Win a Grand Prix, and Solve a Crime.
For Good Measure by Ken Robbins discusses measurement such as how much, how far, how heavy, how big, and how old. I read this book to middle grades and we all learned things we hadn’t known previously.
Jerry Pallotta is known for his wonderful alphabet books. If you don’t have any of them, you really must buy some of them. They are not childish ABC books, but informational and suitable for all ages. But, I digress. He has written math books, as well. Two of his books are on fractions and subtraction using Hershey candy.
Loreen Leedy is also well known for her math books; particularly the ones about a dog named Penny. In Measuring Penny, dogs are measured by using a ruler, a yardstick, a scale, a stopwatch, and other non-standard units of measurement such as a dog biscuit. It’s Probably Penny helps to explain predictions and probability. Ms. Leedy has other books on addition, subtraction, and fractions.
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table by Cindy Neuschwander is really more story than math, but there’s some clever word play in them. In this one, Lady Di of Ameter (and their son Radius) helps her husband the king decide which kind of table will work best for all the knights. If you like this book, check out the others in this series.
David Adler has written How Tall, How Short, How Faraway, a book on measurement. Measurement units from ancient times and where we get our modern units of measurement are explained along with metric units. It appears to be more childish than it really is, so don’t be deceived.
Check out your school library and see if you have books on math in the science section. The Dewey number is 510. I tell the children that math is also a science and belongs in the science section along with biology, astronomy, and chemistry. This is often a big surprise to many of them.
Enjoy the rest of your week.
Audrey
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