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The King’s Commissioners By Aileen Friedman, Scholastic, 1995The concept of counting by grouping is introduced.

The Life and Times of the Honeybee By Charles MicucciThe Life and Times of the Honeybee illustrates each phase of the workers’, drones’ and queen bee’s lives.

Little Oh By Laura Krauss MelmedThe story, with lovely illustrations, depicts how Little Oh, and (an?) Origami girl, fi nes her way back home and becomes a real little girl after being dropped under a marker stall.

Logic for Space Age Kids By Lyn McClure Butrick and William H. Copper, University Classics, 1984Zeno, for the planet Zircon, tackles problems involving logical deduction.

Math Mysteries: Stories and Activities to Build Problem-Solving Skills By Jack Silbert, Scholastic, 1996The “Eff ective Detective Agency” introduces each reproducible story, presenting readers with engaging math problems to solve.

Math-Terpieces By Greg Tang, Greg Paprocki, Scholastic, 2003Tang explores basic problem solving through fun text and illustrations.

Measuring Penny By Loreen Leedy, Henry Holt, 1998A young girl, with the help of her dog, investigates various types of measurement.

Pigs at Odds: Fun With Math and Games By Amy Axelrod and Sharon McGinley-Nally, Simon & Schuster, 2000This book explores probability in the environment of a carnival complete with many games.

The Real Thief By William SteigGawain is a trustworthy goose that is accused of stealing treasures from the royal vault. The real thief is a mouse who replaces the missing jewels to clear Gawain of the crime.

Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt By Lisa Campbell Ernst, William Morrow, 1992A tale about quilt-making, which introduces patterns and symmetry.

Sir Cumference and the First Round Table: A Math Adventure By Cindy Neuschwander, Charlesbridge Publishing, 1997The terms of geometry are brought to life, as problems with the Round Table force King Arthur and his knights to consider more suitable shapes.

Spaghetti and Meatballs for All: A Mathematical Story By Marilyn Burns, Scholastic, 1997This book is a real-life exploration of area and perimeter.

The Story of Money By Betsy MaestroThis book explains how the money of today grew from a system of barter to the modern practice of trading money for goods and services. The history of coins and bills including wampum and “pieces of eight” is also explored.

Three Pigs, One Wolf, and Seven Magic Shapes By Grace MacCarone, David Neuhaus and Marilyn Burns, Scholastic, 1998The seven magic shapes, tangrams, form fi gures that help pigs outsmart the wolf.

Tiger Math: Learning to Graph From a Baby Tiger By Ann Whitehead Nagda and Cindy Bickel, Henry Holt & Company, 2000The text and four diff erent types of graphs (picture, circle, bar, and line) tell the story of how the tiger grows.

Time By Henry Pluckrose, Children’s Press, 1988Units of time measurement, along with the importance of timekeeping, are explored.

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