booksRecommended Books

Here is a list of books recommended for Mixing in Math activities. You can also download this list as an Excel file, sortable by activity name, book title, author, or grade level.

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Activities

Book Title

Author

Grade Level

Building Houses

Castles, Caves & Honeycombs

Ashman, Linda

K-3

Building Houses

My Home: Walls, Floors, Ceilings, and Doors

Bullard, Lisa

K-1

Building Houses

The House in the Meadow

Crum, Shutta

K-1

Building Houses

Skyscrapers! Super Structures To Design and Build

Johmann, Carol

3-7

Building Houses

Houses and Homes

Morris, Ann

K-2

Building Houses

Building With Shapes

Weber, Rebecca

K-2

Building Houses

My Painted House, My Friendly Chicken, and Me

Angelou, Maya

K-2

Building Houses

Block City

Stevenson, Robert Louis

K-2

Building Houses

Pyramid

Macaulay, David

3-7

Building Houses

A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World

DK and UNICEF

3-7

Catch the Beat

Music Math: Exploring Different Interpretations of Fractions

Collins, Kathleen

4-7

Catch the Beat

Rap-a-tap-tap

Dillon, Diane & Leo

K-2

Catch the Beat

This Jazz Man

Ehrhardt, Karen

K-3

Catch the Beat

What Charlie Heard

Gerstein, Mordecai

2-5

Catch the Beat

Bring on the Beat

Isadora, Rachel

K-3

Catch the Beat

Music Math

Walsh, Kieran

3-7

Catch the Beat

Making Instruments

http://drumjourney.com/home/index.htm

K-2

Catch the Beat

A Kick in the Head

Janeczko, Paul B.

3-7

Check the Clock

Hands Down: Counting by Fives

Dahl, Michael

K-1

Check the Clock

Tools of Timekeeping: a Kid's guide to the History & Science of Telling Time

Formichelli, Linda

4-7

Check the Clock

Counting Sheep

Glass, Julie

K-2

Check the Clock

The Man Who Made Time Travel

Lasky, Kathryn

3-6

Check the Clock

Chimp Math

Nagda, Ann

1-5

Check the Clock

Are We There Yet, Daddy

Walters, Virginia

K-2

Countdown

Ten, Nine, Eight

Bang, Molly

K-2

Countdown

Fresh & Fun: Calendar Activities

Freitag, Jan Armstrong

K-2

Countdown

The Story of Clocks and Calendars

Maestro, Betsy

3-6

Countdown

Game Time

Murphy, Stuart

K-3

Countdown

When the Moon Is Full

Pollock, Penny

K-4

Countdown

Nothing to Do

Walsh, Kieran

K-2

Countdown

Countdown

Wood, Douglas

K-2

Countdown

Time Math

Woodward, Kay

2-5

Double or More

Two of Everything

Hont, Lily Toy

 

Double or More

The 512 Ants of Sullivan St.

Losi, Carol

K-2

Double or More

Double the Ducks

Murphy, Stuart

K-2

Double or More

One Grain of Rice

Demi

K-4

Double or More

Spaghetti and Meatballs for All

Burns, Marilyn

K-2

Double or More

Duplicar Y Multiplicar Doubling and Multiplying

Leffingwell, Richard

1-4

Double or More

Everybody Cooks Rice

Dooley, Norah

K-2

Double or More

Honest Pretzels

Katzen, Mollie

3-4

Endurance

Scholastic Book of World Records 2006

Gay, Georgian

3-7

Endurance

Guinness World Records: Fearless Feats

Calkhoven, Laurie

3-7

Endurance

Game Day

Barber, Tiki

1-4

Endurance

Wilma Unlimited

Krull, Kathleen

K-5

Endurance

Pushing the Limits

McDaniel, Melissa

3-7

Endurance

What Are the Facts: Collecting Information

Kathryn, Smithyman

3-7

Endurance

Data, Graphing, and Statistics

Somervill, Barbara

3-5

Endurance

Active Kids

Wingard-Nelson, Rebecca

3-7

Fair Shares

That Apple Is Mine

Arnold, Katya

K-2

Fair Shares

Mary Clare Likes to Share

Hulme, Joy

K-2

Fair Shares

Fractions: Making Fair Shares

Koomen, Michele

K-2

Fair Shares

Divide It Up

Leslie, Tonya

K-3

Fair Shares

A Remainder of One

Pinczes, Elinor

K-3

Fair Shares

Root Beer and Banana

Sullivan, Sarah

K-3

Filling the Time

Talking About Time: How Long Does It Take

Attwood, Jilly

K-3

Filling the Time

Pigs on a Blanket

Axelrod, Amy

K-2

Filling the Time

The Story of Clocks and Calendars

Maestro, Betsy

3-7

Filling the Time

Same Old Horse

Murphy, Stuart

1-3

Filling the Time

On Time: From Seasons to Split Seconds

Skurzynski, Gloria

4-7

Filling the Time

15 Minutes

Young, Steve

4-7

Find a Partner

Grandpa Has a Big Face

Hanson, Warren

K-2

Find a Partner

Actual Size

Jenkins, Steve

K-4

Find a Partner

Measuring a Penny

Leedy, Loreen

2-4

Find a Partner

Big Better Best

Murphy, Stuart

K-3

Find a Partner

Next to an Ant

Rockliff, Mara

K-1

Find a Partner

Millions to Measure

Schwartz, David

1-4

Find Someone

Matthew A.B.C.

Catalanotto, Peter

K-2

Find Someone

It's Okay to Be Different

Parr, Todd

K-1

Find Someone

Find Anthony Ant

Philpot, Lorna

K-3

Find Someone

Grandfather's Shape Story

Sargent, Brian

K-3

Find Someone

All Kinds of People: What Makes Us Different

Waters, Jennifer

K-4

Find Someone

You Can't Take a Balloon Into the Metropolitan Museum

Weitzman, Jacqueline

K-5

Find Someone

Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems

Hopkins, Lee Bennett

3-4

Find Someone

The Phantom Tollbooth

Juster, Norton

3-7

Getting to Know You

Children Just Like Me

Kindersley, Barnabas and Anabel

3-4

Getting to Know You

A Life Like Mine: How Children Live Around the World

DK and UNICEF

3-7

Getting to Know You

The Name Jar

Choi, Yangsook

K-4

Getting to Know You

Fabulous Fractions

Long, Lynette

3-6

Getting to Know You

Material World: A Global Family Portrait

Menzel, Peter

4-7

Getting to Know You

The Wishing Club: A Story about Fractions

Napoli, Donna Jo

K-3

Getting to Know You

Two Eggs, Please

Weeks, Sarah

K-3

Growing Plants

Up, Down, and Around

Ayres, Catherine

K-2

Growing Plants

The Empty Pot

Demi

K-3

Growing Plants

Weslandia

Fleischman, Paul

K-4

Growing Plants

From Bean to Bean Plant

Ganeri, Anita

K-3

Growing Plants

A Seed Grows: My First Look at a Plants Life Cycle

Hickman, Pamela

K-2

Growing Plants

Fruit is a Suitcase for Seeds

Richards, Jean

K-2

Guess My Number

Even Steven and Odd Todd

Cristaldi, Kathryn

K-3

Guess My Number

How Many Snails

Giganti, Paul

K-2

Guess My Number

Ten Times Better

Michaelson, Richard

K-4

Guess My Number

Earth Day Hooray

Murphy, Stuart

K-2

Guess My Number

Can You Guess?

Sargent, Brian

K-1

Guess My Number

Seven Blind Mice

Young, Ed

K-2

Guess My Number

Spunky Monkeys on Parade

Murphy, Stuart

K-2

Guess My Number

One Hundred Angry Ants

Pinczes, Elinor

3-4

Guess My Rule

Grandma's Button Box

Aber, Linda

K-1

Guess My Rule

Max's Words

Banks, Kate

K-3

Guess My Rule

Dave's Down-to-Earth Rock Shop

Murphy, Stuart

K-3

Guess My Rule

Sorting

Pluckrose, Henry

K-2

Guess My Rule

Sorting at the Ocean

Roy, Jennifer

K-3

Guess My Rule

Math-terpieces: The Art of Problem Solving

Tang, Greg

1-5

Guess Which One

Something Not Quite Right

Billout, Guy

1-5

Guess Which One

Can You Find It, Too?

Cressy, Judith

2-5

Guess Which One

When Riddles Come Rumbling

Dotlich, Rebecca

2-6

Guess Which One

How Will We Get to the Beach?

Luciani, Brigitte

k-2

Guess Which One

Guess Again: Riddle Poems

Morrison, Lillian

k-3

Guess Which One

Sorting

Pluckrose, Henry

k-2

How Many in a Minute

A Second Is a Hiccup: A Child's Book of Time

Hutchins, H.J.

K-3

How Many in a Minute

About Time: A First Look At Time and Clocks

Koscielniak, Bruce

K-4

How Many in a Minute

My Grandmother's Clock

McCaughrean, Geraldine

K-2

How Many in a Minute

Ten Minutes till Bedtime

Rathmann, Peggy

K-2

How Many in a Minute

First Morning: Poems about Time

Sieger-Smith, Nikki

K-3

How Many in a Minute

Time Math

Walsh, Kieran

K-4

How Many in a Jar

Lucy Days With Mr. and Mrs. Green

Baker, Keith

K-1

How Many in a Jar

The Long Wait

Cobb, Annie

K-2

How Many in a Jar

Time to Estimate

Franco, Betsy

K-2

How Many in a Jar

Great Estimations

Gladstone, Bruce

K-3

How Many in a Jar

Coyotes All Around

Murphy, Stuart

K-4

How Many in a Jar

Cook a Doodle Do

Stevens, Janet

K-2

How Many in a Jar

How Long?

Dale, Elizabeth

K-3

How Many in a Jar

Me Counting Time: From Seconds to Centuries

Sweeney, Joan

K-2

How Many in a Jar

On Time: From Seasons to Split Seconds

Skurzynski, Gloria

3-7

How Many in a Jar

Animal Numbers

Kitchen, Bert

K-2

How Many in a Jar

How Much Is a Million?

Schwartz, David

3-7

Is It Possible

Do You Wanna Bet

Cushman, Jean

4-6

Is It Possible

It's Probably Penny

Leedy, Loreen

K-4

Is It Possible

Measurement Mania: Games and Activities that Make Math Fun

Long, Lynnette

K-4

Is It Possible

How Big Is a Foot

Myller, Rolf

K-2

Is It Possible

If…

Perry, Sarah

K-4

Is It Possible

Millions to Measure

Schwartz, David

K-4

I Spy Shapes

Shape Spotters

Bryant, Megan

K-2

I Spy Shapes

A Triangle for Adaora: An African Book of Shapes

Onyefulu, Ifeoma

K-2

I Spy Shapes

Come to My Party and Other Poems

Roemer, Heidi

K-4

I Spy Shapes

Fun Crafts With Shapes

Ros, Jordina

K-6

I Spy Shapes

The Shape of Things

Scott, Janine

K-3

I Spy Shapes

Tiny Tortilla

Williams, Arlene

K-2

I Spy Shapes

I Spy Series

 

K-2

Jumping to 100

Numbers: Counting It Up

Koomen, Michele

K-2

Jumping to 100

Ten Times Better

Michelson, Richardson

K-7

Jumping to 100

Leaping Lizards

Murphy, Stuart

K-3

Jumping to 100

Skip Count by 10 Lets Do It Again

Kompelien, Tracy

K-3

Jumping to 100

One Hundred Angry Ants

Pinczes, Elinor

K-3

Jumping to 100

One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab: Counting by Feet

Sayre, April

K-2

Jumping to 100

The Hundred Dresses

Estes, Eleanor

3-4

Line Up

Someone Bigger

Emmet, Jonathan

K-2

Line Up

The Best Bug Parade

Murphy, Stuart

K-2

Line Up

Tiger Math: Learning to Graph

Nagda, Ann

K-4

Line Up

Fun Crafts with Sizes and Shapes

Ros, Jordina

K-6

Line Up

Graphing in the Desert

Roy, Jennifer

1-5

Line Up

The Giant Cabbage: An Alaskan Folktale

Stihler, Cherie

K-3

Line Up

The Long and Short of It

Nathan, Cheryl, and Lisa McCourt

K-2

Locomotion

Tick Tock

Dunbar, James

K-2

Locomotion

A Second Is a Hiccup: A Child's Book of Time

Hutchins, H.J.

K-3

Locomotion

Move!

Jenkins, Steve

K-4

Locomotion

Once Upon a Time, the End: Asleep in 60 Seconds

Kloske, Geoffrey

K-3

Locomotion

Just a Minute: A Trickster Tale and Counting Book

Morales, Yuyi

K-5

Locomotion

Zooming and Creeping

Taylor, Barbara

K-4

Locomotion

First Morning: Poems about Time

Sieger-Smith, Nikki

3-4

Locomotion

Scholastic Book of World Records 2006

Bay, Georgian

3-7

Majority Rules

Percents and Ratios

Caron, Lucille

3-5

Majority Rules

Piece=Part=Portions:Fractions=Decimals=Percents

Gifford, Scott

3-5

Majority Rules

If You Had to Choose What Would You Do?

Humphrey, Sandra

3-7

Majority Rules

Delightful Decimals and Perfect Percents: Games and Activities That Make Math Easy & Fun

Long, Lynnette

2-7

Majority Rules

Grizzly Gazette

Murphy, Stuart

K-3

Majority Rules

Which Would You Rather Be?

Steig, William

K-4

Majority Rules

When A Monster is Born

Taylor, Sean

K-3

Name Game

The Name of the Tree: A Bantu Tale Retold

Lottridge, Celia

K-3

Name Game

Tikki Tikki Tembo

Mosel, Arlene

K-4

Name Game

My Name is Yoon

Recorvits, Helen

K-4

Name Game

What's Your Name

Sanders, Marilyn

K-3

Name Game

Famous Flights: Understanding and Using Variables

Roza, Greg

3-7

Name Game

Grapes of Math

Tang, Greg

2-6

Name Game

Chrysanthemum

Henkes, Kevin

K-2

Paper Bag Skits

On Stage: Theater Games and Activities for Kids

Bany-Winters, Lisa

3-7

Paper Bag Skits

Acting Out: Reader's Theatre Across the Curriculum

Gustafson, Chris

3-7

Paper Bag Skits

Math Smarts: Tips, Tricks & Secrets for Making Math More Fun

Long, Lynette

3-7

Paper Bag Skits

Math Curse

Scieszka, Jon

2-5

Paper Bag Skits

Stories on Stage: Children's Plays For Reader's Theater

Shepard, Aaron

3-7

Paper Bag Skits

My Nights at the Improv

Siebold, Jan

4-7

Penny Jar

Rock, Brock and the Savings Shock

Blair, Sheil

K-3

Penny Jar

Money, Money, Money, Where It Comes From, How To Save It, Spent It, and Make It

Drobot, Eve

2-6

Penny Jar

The Story of Money

Maestro, Betsy

2-5

Penny Jar

My Rows and Piles of Coins

Mollel, Tolowwa

K-4

Penny Jar

The Penny Pot

Murphy, Stuart

K-3

Penny Jar

The Coin Counting Book

Williams, Rozanne

K-3

Picture Board

The Quiltmaker's Gift

Brumbeau, Jeff

K-5

Picture Board

Measurement Mania: Games and Activities that Make Math Fun

Long, Lynnette

3-6

Picture Board

Sam's Sneaker Squares

Nat, Gabriel

K-2

Picture Board

Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream

Neuschwander, Cindy

K-3

Picture Board

Zachary Zormer: Shape Transformer

Reisberg, Joanne

K-3

Picture Board

The Best of Times: Math Strategies That Multiply

Tang, Greg

K-4

Picture Board

Multiplication Made Easy

Wingard-Nelson, Rebecca

3-5

Piles of Paper

Stacks of Trouble

Brenner, Martha

K-3

Piles of Paper

The Story of Paper

Ying Chang, Compestine

K-3

Piles of Paper

The Boy Who Loved Words

Schotter, roni

1-4

Piles of Paper

Paper Recycling and Re-Using

Thomson, Ruth

2-6

Piles of Paper

The Young Zillionaire's Guide to Producing Goods and Services

Tillema, Juliana

3-7

Piles of Paper

The Wonderful Towers of Watts

Zelver, Patricia

1-5

Play to Ten

Max’s Math Machine

Brimner, Larry

K-3

Play to Ten

Benny’s Pennies

Brisson, Pat

K-1

Play to Ten

G Is For Gzonk!

DiTerlizzi, Tony

K-5

Play to Ten

How High Can a Dinosaur Count

Fisher, Valerie

K-4

Play to Ten

12 Ways to Get to 11

Merriam, Eve

K-3

Play to Ten

Mouse Count

Walsh, Ellen Stoll

K-2

Play to Ten

Counting Ovejas

Weeks, Sarah

K-2

Pocket Change

Once Upon a Dime: A Math Adventure

Allen, Nancy

K-2

Pocket Change

Let's Add Coins

Duodna, Kelly

K-3

Pocket Change

From Seashells to Smart Cards

Giesecke, Ernestine

3-6

Pocket Change

A Dollar For Penny

Glass, Julie

K-3

Pocket Change

Follow the Money

Leedy, Loreen

K-2

Pocket Change

Learning About Coins

Williams, Rozanne

K-3

Quick Questions

Who’s Got Spots

Aber, Linda

K-3

Quick Questions

The All New Book of Lists For Kids

Choron, Sandra

3-7

Quick Questions

The Great Graph Contest

Leedy, Loreen

1-4

Quick Questions

Making Graphs

Nechaev, Michelle

1-4

Quick Questions

What Do You Do With a Tail Like This?

Page, Robin

K-5

Quick Questions

Data, Graphing, & Statistics

Wingard-Nelson, Rebecca

3-7

Rate It

Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day

Viorst, Judith

K-2

Rate It

Less than Zero

Murphy, Stuart

K-2

Rate It

The Bugliest Bug

Shields, Carol

K-2

Rate It

What Are the Facts: Collecting Information

Somerville, Barbara

K-4

Rate It

Imagine a Day

Thomson, Sarah

K-7

Rate It

World Almanac for Kids

World Almanac

2-7

Read the Label

Showdown at the Food Pyramid

Barron, Rex

K-3

Read the Label

Percents and Ratios

Caron, Lucille

3-6

Read the Label

The Edible Pyramid

Leedy, Loreen

K-4

Read the Label

Food Labels: Using Nutritional Information to Create a Healthy Diet

McCarthy, Rose

3-7

Read the Label

If You Hopped Like a Frog

Schwartz, David

1-5

Read the Label

Kitchen Math

Walsh, Kieran

2-5

Search and Measure

Maps and Mapping

Chancellor, Deborah

1-5

Search and Measure

Follow the Line through the House

Ljungkvist, Laura

K-4

Search and Measure

Measurement Mania: Games and Activities that Make Math Fun

Long, Lynette

2-6

Search and Measure

Chickens on the Move

Pollack, Pamela

K-3

Search and Measure

Measuring at Home

Roy, Jennifer

1-3

Search and Measure

Millions to Measure

Schwartz, David

K-4

Special Snack

Snacks From Around the World

Ashworth, Sue

3-7

Special Snack

Common Cents

Bailey, Gerry

3-7

Special Snack

365 Penguins

Fromental, Jean Luc

1-3

Special Snack

The Kids Money Book

McGillian, Jamie

3-6

Special Snack

Money at the Store

Roy, Jennifer

1-4

Special Snack

Bunny Money

Wells, Rosemary

K-3

Take Ten

Ten Rowdy Ravens

Ewing, Susan

K-3

Take Ten

Five Creatures

Jenkins, Emily

K-2

Take Ten

One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab: Counting by Feet

Sayre, April

K-2

Take Ten

I Don't Want to Clean My Room & Other Poems About Chores

Vesergaard, Hope

K-4

Take Ten

Countdown to Clean Up!

Wallace, Nancy

K-2

Take Ten

Adding

Williams, Rozanne

K-2

Taking Attendance

Daisy 1, 2, 3

Catalanotto, Peter

K-2

Taking Attendance

Piece=Part=Portions:Fractions=Decimals=Percents

Gifford, Scott

K-4

Taking Attendance

Smushy Bus

Helakoski, Leslie

K-3

Taking Attendance

How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin

McNamara, Margaret

K-2

Taking Attendance

How Much, How Many, How Far, How Heavy, How Long, How Tall is 1000

Nolan, Helen

K-3

Taking Attendance

Subtraction at School

Roy, Jennifer

K-3

Team Up

Division

Cato, Sheila

K-4

Team Up

How Do You Count a Dozen Ducklings

Chae, In-Son

K-3

Team Up

The Blast Off Kid

Driscoll, Laura

K-2

Team Up

Hooray Jose!

Garland, Michael

K-2

Team Up

Equal Shmequal

Kroll, Virginia

K-3

Team Up

Bean Thirteen

McElligott, Matthew

K-3

Top That

A Million Dots

Clements, Andrew

K-5

Top That

City By Numbers

Johnson, Stephen

K-4

Top That

Grandpa Grazillion's Number Yard

Keller, Laurie

K-3

Top That

How Much, How Mnay, How Far, How Heavy, How Long, How Tall is 1000

Nolan, Helen

K-3

Top That

Math-terpieces: The Art of Problem Solving

Tang, Greg

K-4

Top That

Can You Count to a Googol

Wells, Robert

K-3

Turn My Way

Up, Down, and Around

Ayres, Catherine

K-1

Turn My Way

Geometry at Every turn/ Geometria En Cada Vuelte

Cappell, Rachel

K-3

Turn My Way

The Turn Around Upside Down Alphabet Book

Ernst, Lisa Campbell

K-7

Turn My Way

The Greatest Gymnast of All

Murphy, Stuart

K-2

Turn My Way

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland

Neuschwander, Cindy

K-3

Turn My Way

Follow the Leader

Silverman, Erica

K-2