Using Picture Books to Teach Math

All books listed are available in Concord's Library Media Center
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Addition & Subtraction
Geometry and Spatial Sense
Patterns 
Algebra and Uses of Variables
Measures and Measurement
Problem Solving
Counting
Money
Reference Frames
Data and Chance
Multiplication & Division
Time/Calendar
Fractions
Number Sense
Other
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Addition and Subtraction

E Sm Imogene's Antlers
O Le Ten Apples Up On Top
513.21 Hu Sea Sums
513.21 Le Mission: Addition

Algebra and Uses of Variables

E Fr Corduroy by Don Freeman
E Oa Puzzlers by Bill Oakes
398.2 De One Grain of Rice

Counting

E Eh Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On
E Ho Count and See
E Ma 17 Kings and 42 Elephants by Margaret Mahy
E Ma Ocean Parade
E Mi Farm Counting Book
E Wa Mouse Count by Ellen Stoll Walsh
PB Ba Ten, Nine, Eight by Molly Bang
PB Cr Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews
PB Mc M & M Counting Book
511.32 Ho Let's Count
511.32 Ho More, Fewer, Less
513.2 Ho I Can Count to 100, Can You?
513.2 Mi I Spy Two Eyes
513.2 Sc How Much is a Million? by David Schwartz
513.21 Bo Gathering: A Northwoods Counting Book
513.21 Jo City by Numbers
513.5 Gi Each Orange Had 8 Slices
513.55 Cl Counting on Frank
811 Si Light in the Attic - "How Many How Much?"
811 Si Where the Sidewalk Ends - "Band-aids" and "Eight Balloons" by Shel Silverstein

Data and Chance

E Ba Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs by Judi Barrett
E Ca Jesse Bear, What Will You Wear?
E Ca Harriet's Halloween Candy by Nancy Carlson
E He Chrysanthemum by Kevin Henkes
E Mu Moira's Birthday by Robert Munsch
E Sl Caps for Sale by Exphyr Slobodkina
E Va Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
511 Mo Socrates and the Three Little Pigs by Mitsumasa Anno and Tsyuoshi Mori 
519.54 Betcha!
811 Si Where the Sidewalk Ends - "Hungry Mungry" by Shel Silverstein

Fractions

E Mu Jump, Kangaroo, Jump
513.2 Mc Eating Fractions by Bruce McMillan
513.26 Ad Fraction Fun by David A. Adler
  Fraction Action by Loreen Leeedy (coming soon)

Geometry and Spatial Sense

E Ax Pigs on the Ball
E Bu The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns
E Ca The Very Busy Spider
E Ca Draw Me a Star
E Eh Color Zoo by Lois Ehlert
E Jo Round Trip by Ann Jonas
E Jo The Quilt Story
E Sm Paper John by David Small
E To Grandfather Tang's Story
516 Ne Sir Cumference and the First Round Table
516. 2 Ho Shapes, Shapes, Shapes by Tana Hoban
741.2 Em Ed Emberly's Picture Pie: A Circle Drawing Book
811 Si A Light in the Attic - "Shapes" by Shel Silverstein

Measures and Measurement

E Al Who Sank the Boat?
E An The King's Flower
E Br Jim and the Beanstalk
E Hi Twelve Snails to One Lizard
E Hi My Place in Space
E Hu Happy Birthday, Sam
E Ke Much Bigger Than Martin
E Li The Biggest House in the World
E Li Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni
E Mu The Best Bug Parade
E Po Thunder Cake by Patricia Polacco
E To The Great Big Enormous Turnip
E My How Big is a Foot? by Rolf Myller
E Sc Math Curse by Jon Scieszka
BC Co What's Cooking, Jenny Archer? by Ellen Conford
398.2 De Strega Nona by Tomie DePoala
398.2 Es Star Maiden
513.55 Cl Counting on Frank
530.8 Mu Super Sand Castle Saturday
551 Co The Magic School Bus Inside the Earth by Joanna Cole
  If You Hopped Like a Frog

Money

E Ax Pigs Will Be Pigs by Amy Axelrod
E Ma The Hundred Penny Box by Sharon Bell Mathis
E Vi Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
E Wi A Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams
PB Ho A Quarter from the Tooth Fairy
PB St The Money Tree by Sarah Stewart
O Ho Arthur's Funny Money
332.4 Ad The Go-Around Dollar by Barbara Johnston Adams
513.2 Sc If You Made a Million
811 Si Where the Sidewalk Ends - "Smart" by Shel Silverstein

Multiplication and Division

E An Anno's Counting House
E Bu Spaghetti and Meatballs
E Hu The Doorbell Rang
E Ma 17 Kings and 42 Elephants by Margaret Mahy
E Ne Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream
E Pi A Remainder of One by Elinor J. Pinczes
398.2 De One Grain of Rice
512 An Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar by Masaichiro Anno
513 Ma Bunches and Bunches of Bunnies by Louise Mathews
513 Mc More M & M Math
513 Tr Building Tables on Tables
513.5 Gi Each Orange Had 8 Slices
811 Si Where the Sidewalk Ends - "Band-aids" by Shel Silverstein

Number Sense

E Al Who Sank the Boat?
E An Anno's Counting House
E De So Many Cats
E Ga Millions of Cats by Wanda Gag
E Se The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins
E Sl Caps for Sale
E Th Goldilocks and the Three Bears
E Wi The Warrior and the Wise Man
E Wo The Napping House
153.4 No Anno's Hat Tricks
398.2 Aa Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears
398.2 An Two Hundred Rabbits
511.32 ho More, Fewer, Less
513.2 Sc If You Made a Million
513.2 Sc How Much is a Million?

Patterns

E Ca The Very Busy Spider
E Er Sam Johnson and the Blue Ribbon Quilt by Lisa Campbell Ernst
E Fl The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy
E Jo Round Trip
E Jo Reflections
F Da Esio Trot by Roald Dahl
746.97 Pa Eight hands Round: A Patchwork Alphabet by Ann Whitford Paul
  Pattern Fish
  Zoom, Zoom, Broom, Broom

Problem Solving

E Ca Harriet's Halloween Candy by Nancy Carlson
E El Q is for Duck
E Ho A House is a House for Me
E Li Swimmy
E Lo Ming Lo Moves the Mountain

Reference Frames

E Oa The Diary of Church Mouse by Graham Oakley
E Se Chicken Soup with Rice by Maurice Sendak 
  Seven Blind Mice (coming soon)
612 Co The Magic School Bus Inside the Human Body by Joanna Cole

Time/Calendar

E Ca The Grouchy Ladybug
E Li When This Box is Full
E Pr A Year at Maple Hill Farm
529.7 Ol Telling Time
551.6 Si On the Same Day in March

Other

510 Sc G is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book
811.54 Ma Marvelous Math: A Book of Poems