Columbia College
These are children's literature that can be used with mathematics instruction. They are linked to Columbia College and MOBIUS, if Columbia College does not have a print copy. The print copies are available to Missouri residents.
Developing Early Number Concepts and Number Sense
Anno’s Counting House. Anno. 1982 (MOBIUS)
The Very Hungry Caterpillar. Carle. 1969
Two Ways to Count to Ten, Dee, 1988 (MOBIUS)
Developing Meanings for the Operations
How Many Snails? Giganti. 1988 (MOBIUS)
One Hundred Hungry Ants. Pinczes. 1999
Remainder of One. Pinczes, 1995
Each Orange Had 8 Slices. Giganti 1992 (MOBIUS)
Helping Children Master the Basic Facts
One Less Fish. Toft. 1998 (MOBIUS)
The Twelve Days of Summer. Andrews. 2005 (MOBIUS)
Developing Whole-Number Place-Value Concepts
Moira’s Birthday. Munsch. 1987
100th Day Worries. Cuyler. 2000
100 Days of School. Harris. 1999
How Much is a Million? Schwartz. 1985
If You Made a Million. Schwartz. 1989
On Beyond a Million: An Amazing Math Journey. Schwartz. 1999
Magic of a Million Activity Book- Grades 2-5. Scwartz & Whitin. 1998
The King’s Commissioners. Friedman. 1994
A Million Fish… More or Less. McKissack. 1992
The Pop Corn Book. De Paola. 1978
Is A Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is? Wells. 2005 (MOBIUS)
Using Computational Estimation with Whole Numbers
Counting on Frank. Clement. 1991
“How Many, How Much” from A Light in the Attic. Silverstain. 1981
Algebraic Thinking: Generalizations, Patterns, and Functions
Anno’s Magic Seeds. Anno. 1994 (MOBIUS)
Bats on Parade. Appelt. 1999 (MOBIUS)
Pattern. Pluckrose. 1995 (MOBIUS)
Two of Everything: A Chinese Folktale. Hong 1993 (MOBIUS)
Developing Fraction Concepts
How Many Snails? A Counting Book. Giganti. 1988 (MOBIUS)
The Doorbell Rang. Hutchins. 1986
The Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures. Tahan. 1993 (MOBIUS)
Developing Strategies for Fraction Computation
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Carroll.
Developing Concepts of Decimals and Percents
The Phantom Tollbooth. Juster 1961
Piece=Part=Portion: Fractions=Decimals=Percents. Gifford & Thaler. 2008 (MOBIUS)
Proportional Reasoning
If You Hopped Like a Frog. Schwartz. 1999
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Carroll. 1985/1982
Gulliver’s Travels. Swift. 1995
Jim and the Beanstalk. Briggs. 1970 (MOBIUS)
Kate and the Beanstalk. Osborne 2000 (MOBIUS)
“One Inch Tall” in Where the Sidewalk Ends. Silverstain 1973
Geometric Thinking and Geometric Concepts
The Greedy Triangle. Burns. 1995
Snowflake Bentley. Martin 1998
Color Farm Ehlert 1990 (MOBIUS)
Color Zoo. Ehlert 1989 (MOBIUS)
Developing Concepts of Data Analysis
The Best Vacation Ever. Murphy. 1997 (MOBIUS)
Frog and Toad are Friends. Lobel 1970
If the World Were a Village: A Book About the World’s People. Smith 2002
Swamp Angel. Isaacs and Zelinsky. 2000
Exploring Concepts of Probability
Go Figure! A Totally Cool Book about Numbers. Ball 2005 (MOBIUS)
Harry Potter and the:
Do You Wanna Bet? Your Chance to Find Out About Probability. Cushman 1991(MOBIUS)
My Little Sister Ate One Hare. Grossman. 1996 (MOBIUS)
Developing Concepts of Exponents, Integers, and Real Numbers
The Number Devil. Enzensberger. 1997 (MOBIUS)
Oh Yikes! History’s Grossest, Wackiest Moments. Masoff. 2006 (MOBIUS)