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Literature in Mathematics

Leonor's literature

|Algebra |Author |Grade |Comments |

|A Gebra Named Al |Isdell |6-8 |Algebra |

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|Equal Shmequal |Kroll |6-8 |Weight; balance; algebra equations; statistical mean |

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|Knots on a Counting Rope |Martin & Archambault |PK-3 |Problem solving; algebra; Native American tale |

|Tuck Everlasting |Babbitt |4-8 |Time, exponential numbers, graphing, ratio, proportion, rates |

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|Decimal, Percent, Ratio & Proportion |Author |Grade |Comments |

|Animal Farm |Orwell |6-8  |Percent of increase in foodstuffs (p. 81) |

|Gulliver's Travels |Swift |7-12  |Ratio, proportion, measurement      Webpage |

|Holes |Sachar |6-8 |Ratio, proportion, data collection, percent |

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|Math Curse |Scieszka |6-12 |Permutations, problem solving, timeline, average, sequence, percent, |

| | | |vocabulary, volume |

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|The Phantom Tollbooth |Juster |4-6 |Ratio & proportion; many other mathematical concepts |

|The Principal's New Clothes |Calmenson |6-9 |Permutations; ratio; proportion |

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|Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp |Shields |6-10 |Measurement; ratio; proportion; coordinate system; symmetry; |

| | | |transformation; area & volume; statistics; 3-D figures; perspective |

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|Tuck Everlasting |Babbitt |4-8 |Time, exponential numbers, graphing, ratio, proportion, rates |

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|Fractions |Author |Grade |Comments |

|Fraction Action |Leedy |6-8 |Fractions, equivalent fractions, numerator/denominator, operations on |

| | | |fractions |

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|Geometry |Author |Grade |Comments |

|A Cloak for the Dreamer |Friedman |6-7 |Patterns, geometric shapes, tessellation, tiling |

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|A Wrinkle in Time |L'Engle |4-8 |Dimensions      |

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|Catherine called Birdy |Cushman |6-12 |2-D shapes; length; metric system conversion; Fibonacci sequence |

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|Chasing Vermeer |Balliett |4-10 |Geometric shapes, patterns, symmetry, Roman numerals, pentominoes, |

| | | |secret messages, historical mathematics |

|Chronicles of Narnia |Lewis |8-12 |Perimeter; circumference; radius; area; Venn diagram |

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|The Fly on the Ceiling |Glass |5-9 |Coordinate grid; plotting points |

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|Grandfather Tang's Story |Tompert |6-8 |Geometric shapes, spatial reasoning, perimeter, problem solving |

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|The Hands-On Marvelous Ball Book |Hansen-Smith |4-8 |Geometric constructions with paper plates and hairpins |

|Harry Potter books |Rowling |4-8 |Add/subtract; fractions; statistics; money conversion; geometry       |

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|Imperial Earth |Clarke |8-12 |Pentominoes in chapter 7 |

| | | |Pentominoes      Online |

|Jim & the Beanstalk |Briggs |4-6 |Coordinate plane; Pythagorean theorem |

|Maps, Tracks and the Bridges of Konigsberg: A |Holt |6-12 |Networks; graph theory; problem solving |

|Book About Networks | | | |

|More Murderous Math (Spanish) |Poskitt |4-8 |Measurement; geometry |

|Mummy Math: An Adventure in Geometry |Neuschwander |6-8 |Geometric solids & shapes; nets; spatial reasoning |

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|Rubber Bands, Baseballs, and Doughnuts: A Book|Froman |6-12  |Topology; rubber sheet geometry |

|About Topology | | | |

|Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp |Shields |6-10 |Measurement; ratio/proportion; coordinate system; symmetry; |

| | | |transformation; area & volume; statistics; 3-D figures; perspective |

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|Sir Cumference & the Dragon of Pi |Neuschwander |6-10 |Geometric shapes, construction, deconstruction, spatial visualization |

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|Sir Cumference & the First Roundtable |Neuschwander |6-10 |Geometric shapes; construction/ deconstruction; spatial visualization |

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|Sir Cumference & the Great Knight of Angleland|Neuschwander |6-10 |Obtuse angles, right angles, acute angles, straight angles, protractor |

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|Sir Cumference & the Sword in the Cone |Neuschwander |6-10 |Geometric solids; cones; volume; Euler's Law |

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|The Warlord's Puzzle |Pilegard |6-12 |Measurement; area; perimeter; fractions; geometric figures |

|Weslandia |Fleischman |6-8 |Time; protractor; angles; number system; sundial |

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|What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math |Ellis |6-12 |Pythagorean Theorem, right triangles, angles |

|Adventure | | | |

|Logic & Reasoning |Author |Grade |Comments |

|5-Minute Math Problem of the Day |Miller & Lee |4-8 |Brainteasers to start class |

|A Tangled Tale |Carroll |  |Ten mathematical story puzzles |

|Chasing Vermeer |Balliett |4-10 |Geometric shapes, patterns, symmetry, Roman numerals, pentominoes, |

| | | |secret messages, historical mathematics |

|Grandfather Tang's Story |Tompert |6-8 |Geometric shapes, spatial reasoning, perimeter, problem solving |

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|Mathematical History: Activities, Stories, |Gonzales, Mitchell & Stone |  |Mathematical activities, puzzles, stories & games from history |

|Puzzles, and Games | | | |

|Moja Means One |Feelings |5-8 |Number systems; problem solving; logic & reasoning; measurement; |

| | | |conversion |

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|More Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School |Sacher |4-8 |Puzzles for logic & reasoning |

|Sideways Arithmetic from Wayside School |Sacher |4-8 |Introduction to variables; logic & reasoning |

|The Sneaky Square & Other Math Activities for |Sharp |4-6 |139 mathematical activities; estimation; problem solving; puzzles; |

|Kids | | |calculator exercises |

|The Warlord's Puzzle |Pilegard |6-12 |Measurement; area; perimeter; fractions; geometric figures |

|Measurement |Author |Grade |Comments |

|Araminta's Paint Box |Ackerman |  |Maps and milege |

|Catherine called Birdy |Cushman |6-12 |2-D shapes; length; metric system conversion; Fibonacci sequence |

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|Counting on Frank |Clement |6-8 |Estimation; nonstandard measurement; probability |

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|Equal Shmequal |Kroll |6-8 |Weight; balance; algebra equations; statistical mean |

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|Grandfather Tang's Story |Tompert |6-8 |Geometric shapes, spatial reasoning, perimeter, problem solving |

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|Gulliver's Travels |Swift |7-12  |Ratio, proportion, measurement      Webpage |

|How Much & How Many |Bendick |5-9 |History of weights/measures |

|Math Curse |Scieszka |6-12 |Permutations, problem solving, timeline, average, sequence, percent, |

| | | |vocabulary, volume |

| | | |Website |

|Moja Means One |Feelings |5-8 |Number systems; problem solving; logic & reasoning; measurement; |

| | | |conversion |

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|One Hundred Hungry Ants |Pinczes |6-8 |Measurement, multiplication arrays, division, converting units, money |

| | | |Webpage    Webpage |

|Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp |Shields |6-10 |Measurement; ratio & proportion; coordinate system; symmetry; |

| | | |transformation; area & volume; statistics; 3-D figures; perspective |

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|Spaghetti & Meatballs for All! A Mathematical |Burns |6-8 |Perimeter, area, arrangements |

|Story | | | |

|The Warlord's Puzzle |Pilegard |6-12 |Measurement; area; perimeter; fractions; geometric figures |

|Number Sense |Author |Grade |Comments |

|A Grain of Rice |Pittman |6-9 |Place & face value; powers of two |

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|Alice in Wonderland |Carroll |6-12 |Exponents; scientific notation; logarithms      |

| | | |Video#2: Alice to the Moon |

|Anno’s Hat Tricks |Anno |  |Binary logic |

|Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar |Anno |  |Factorials      |

| | | |Lesson     Website |

|Best of Times |Tang |6-8 |Multiplication facts, number sense |

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|Catherine Called Birdy |Cushman |6-12 |2-D shapes; length; metric system conversion; Fibonacci sequence |

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|Chasing Vermeer |Balliett |4-10 |Geometric shapes, patterns, symmetry, Roman numerals, pentominoes, |

| | | |secret messages, historical mathematics |

|How the Other Half Thinks |Stein |  |Imaginary numbers |

|Imperial Earth |Clarke |8-12 |Pentominoes in chapter 7 |

| | | |Pentominoes      Online |

|Math Curse |Scieszka |6-12 |Permutations, problem solving, timeline, average, sequence, percent, |

| | | |vocabulary, volume |

| | | |Website |

|Moja Means One |Feelings |5-8 |Number systems; problem solving; logic & reasoning; measurement; |

| | | |conversion |

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|More M&M Chocolate Candies Math |McGrath |6 |Bar graph; estimation; average; multiplication; division |

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|Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure |Enzensberger |6-12 |Numeracy from interesting number sequences to exponents & matrices |

|(Spanish) | | | |

|Tuck Everlasting |Babbitt |4-8 |Time, exponential numbers, graphing, ratio, proportion, rates |

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|Uno's Garden |Base |1-8 |Sequences, prime numbers, multiplication as repeated addition, squared |

| | | |and cubed numbers |

|Probability & Statistics |Author |Grade |Comments |

|"A Rice Sandwich" from A House on Mango Street|Cisneros |4-8 |Permutations; estimation; money; multiplication |

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|All Mixed Up! |Gukova |4-7 |Permutations |

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|A Million Fish...More or Less |McKissack |6-8 |Bar graph; statistics; data table; mean/median/mode; scatterplot; trend |

| | | |line |

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|A Wrinkle in Time |L'Engle |4-8 |Data analysis & probability |

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|The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras |Twain | |Mean, median, range      |

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|Counting on Frank |Clement |6-8 |Estimation; nonstandard measurement; probability |

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|Dinosaur Data Book |Lambert |  |Graphs |

|Do You Wanna Bet? |Cushman |5-8 |Probability; chance |

|Equal Shmequal |Kroll |6-8 |Weight; balance; algebra equations; statistical mean |

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|Guinness Book of Records |Time Inc |4-12  |Graphs |

|Harry Potter books |Rowling |4-8  |Add/subtract; fractions; statistics; money conversion; geometry       |

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|Holes |Sachar |6-8 |Ratio, proportion, data collection, percent |

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|Jumanji |Van Allsburg |4-8 |Data analysis & probability |

|Math Curse |Scieszka |6-12 |Permutations, problem solving, timeline, average, sequence, percent, |

| | | |vocabulary, volume |

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|Moja Means One |Feelings |5-8 |Number systems; problem solving; logic & reasoning; measurement; |

| | | |conversion |

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|More M&M Chocolate Candies Math |McGrath |6 |Bar graph; estimation; average; multiplication; division |

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|Pit and the Pendulum |Poe |9-12 |Data in T-table; graphing; prediction; problem solving |

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|The Principal's New Clothes |Calmenson |6-9 |Permutations; ratio; proportion |

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|Saturday Night at the Dinosaur Stomp |Shields |6-10 |Measurement; ratio; proportion; coordinate system; symmetry; |

| | | |transformation; area & volume; statistics; 3-D figures; perspective |

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|Tuck Everlasting |Babbitt |4-8 |Time, exponential numbers, graphing, ratio, proportion, rates |

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|Historical |Author |Grade |Comments |

|A Grain of Rice |Pittman |6-9 |Place & face value; powers of two |

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|American Girl series |(various) |6-8 |Historical based facts & figures |

|Alice in Pastaland |Wright |  |Accompanying "Pasta Math" ideabook |

|Chasing Vermeer |Balliett |4-10 |Geometric shapes, patterns, symmetry, Roman numerals, pentominoes, |

| | | |secret messages, historical mathematics |

|Mathematicians are People Too |Reimer & Reimer |3-7 |Biographies of mathematicians |

|The Fly on the Ceiling |Glass |4-6 |Historical fiction; Descartes; coordinate plane |

|The Man Who Counted |Tahan |4-6 |Collection of Arabic Nights adventures |

|Tuck Everlasting |Babbitt |4-8 |Time, exponential numbers, graphing, ratio, proportion, rates |

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|Uncle Petros & Goldbach's Conjecture | Doxiadas |9-12 |A boy & his uncle attempt to solve the famous Goldbach conjecture |

|Miscellaneous |Author |Grade |Comments |

|Boss for a Week (oop) |Handy |6-8 |Days of week, calendar |

|Captives of Time |Bosse |7-10 |Time travel; first clock |

|Chasing Vermeer |Balliett |4-10 |Geometric shapes, patterns, symmetry, Roman numerals, pentominoes, |

| | | |secret messages, historical mathematics |

|Harry Potter books |Rowling |4-8  |Add/subtract; fractions; statistics; money conversion; geometry       |

| | | |Webpage |

|Jayden's Rescue |Tumanov |4-6 |Fantasy novel; problem solving |

|Math Talk: Mathematical Ideas in Poems for 2 |Pappas |  |Mathematical poems to be read aloud by 2 people |

|Voices | | | |

|The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower |Juster |4-6 |A mathematical romance |

|Mathematics | | | |

|The Essential Arithmeticks |Poskitt |4-6 |Series of funny stories about math |

|(Spanish) | | | |

|Pythagoras Eagle and the Music of the Spheres |Nolting |6-8 |Mathematically talented orphan interacts with patterns in math, nature |

| | | |and music |

|Sideways Stories from Wayside School |Sacher |4-8 |Crazy short stories; 30 floors in school |

|Tuck Everlasting |Babbitt |4-8 |Time, exponential numbers, graphing, ratio, proportion, rates |

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