Books
Take the ‘make math fun’ challenge! Ann McCallum, an award-winning children’s book author, has a list of popular titles that is sure to please.
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Eat Your Math Homework: Recipes for Hungry Minds (Illustrated by Leeza Hernandez)
It’s after school. It’s a beautiful day, but you’re stuck inside with a bulging backpack full of homework. There’s no escape…. Or is there? Could homework ever be actually fun? Especially math homework?
Yup, with this book it is! I mean, who could resist whipping up a batch of tessellating brownies? Or, divvying up seconds of Variable Pizza Pie? Introducing a tasty new way to meet your daily requirement for fractions, probability, and other math must-haves. This more-than-a-cookbook includes recipes along with fun math activities. Here’s a sneak peak:
• Fraction Chips…slice ‘em big, slice ‘em small. Either way, show off your equivalent fraction flare.
• Milk and Tangram Cookies…Shape up some terrific treats- geometrically speaking, that is! >read more
Rabbits, Rabbits Everywhere: A Fibonacci Tale (Illustrated by Gideon Kendall)Rabbits are crunching the cabbages. And munching the beans. Some people blame the wizard on the hill, but what does he have to do with their problem? The town simply has too many rabbits and there are more each day!
Can the town hero, the Pied Piper, whisk away the bothersome bunnies? Or is a clear-thinking girl the only one who can help? The power of the Fibonacci pattern proves that sometimes you don’t have to pay the piper!
*Hey- just what is the Fibonacci sequence anyway? Can YOU figure it out? It starts like this: 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21… (Hint: add the previous two terms to get the next number in the sequence) >read more
Beanstalk: The Measure of a Giant (Illustrated by James Balkovek)In this new twist on a beloved tale, Jack climbs the beanstalk and finds a new friend. Only, the friend is a GIANT who is five times Jack’s height! They try to play ball, but the ball is almost as big as Jack. They try to play with Jack’s games, but the perfect size for Jack is far too small for the giant. Indeed, when Jack invites his new friend home, they both realize just how big the problem really is! How can the two ever play together? In this story of a 4-foot boy and a 20-foot giant, it turns out that ratio and proportion save the day. After all, it’s not how tall you are, but how big your heart is when it comes to being a friend! >read more
The Secret Life of Math (Illustrated by Carolyn Norton)Winner of the ForeWord Magazine GOLD book of the year award. Discover how (and why) numbers have survived from the cave dwellers to us! Add to that an even greater question: How is it that math was developed in such amazingly similar ways by distant peoples who had no communication with one another (and didn’t even know of one another’s existence?
On this secret sleuthing adventure, you can:
• Take the abacus challenge using an abacus you make yourself
• Write and do math using Cuneiform and Hieroglyphics
• Make and use a double tally stick with hatch marks
As you discover the real purpose of numbers and math, you’ll solve the mystery of its longevity- and have fun along the way! >read more
