Looking for Mathical Books? See a number of ways to find Mathical award-winning titles for your classroom!
★ THEY MAY ALREADY BE IN YOUR LIBRARY
Mathical Books include several multi-generation classics. These books (and others!) may already be in your library:
- A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L’Engle
- Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
- Hippos Go Berserk! by Sandra Boynton
- Navigating Early by Clare Vanderpool
- The Phantom Tollbooth by Norman Juster
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There by Lewis Carroll
You can download a spreadsheet of all the Mathical Books at the TeachingBooks website. (It’s free!) Sort it any way you like, and see which books may already be in your library.
★ ENJOY FREE MATH & READING ACTIVITIES EACH MONTH
We will provide fun reading & math activities in the monthly mini-newsletter.
★ REMEMBER THAT EVERY “READING” COUNTS.
The Readathon is based on the number of times a child encounters a Mathical book. Repeated readings are allowed. So are group readalouds; in fact, they are encouraged!
Each person in the group is counted toward the total of books read. So, if a teacher reads a book aloud to 10 students, that counts as 10 book readings.
★ FIND LOW-COST BOOKS ON THE MATHICAL LIST
The Mathical Book List includes many titles available for less than $10 per board book – or $10 per paperback – even before educator discounts have been applied.
Here are a few:
- ¡1, 2, 3 Salsa!: English-Spanish Counting Book by Delia Ruiz
- A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars by Seth Fishman
- A Mousy Mess by Laura Driscoll
- Absolutely One Thing by Lauren Child
- Again, Essie? by Jenny Lacika
- All of the Above by Shelley Pearsall
- DK Life Stories: Katherine Johnson by Ebony Joy Wilkins
- Eat Your Math Homework: Recipes for Hungry Minds by Ann McCallum
- Goodnight, Numbers by Danica McKellar
- In the Red by Christopher Swiedler
- Lia and Luís: Who Has More? by Ana Crespo
- Lifetime: The Amazing Numbers in Animal Lives by Lola M. Schaefer
- Numbed! by David Lubar
- One Big Pair of Underwear by Laura Gehl
- Press Here by Hervé Tullet
- Sheep Won’t Sleep by Judy Cox
- The Animals Would Not Sleep! by Sara Levine
- The Girl with a Mind for Math by Julia Finley Mosca
- The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson
- The Last Tree Town by Beth Turley
- The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl by Stacy McAnulty
- Up to My Knees by Grace Lin
- Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer by Kelly Jones
- Usha and the Big Digger by Amitha Jagannath Knight
- Violet and the Pie of Life by Debra L. Green
- What Will Fit? by Grace Lin
★ MORE OPTIONS
- Consider asking friends of your school to donate a book to your library
- Find audiobooks or read-alouds online (courtesy of author & publisher permission)
- Purchase books from the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Bookshop page for Mathical
- A limited selection of Mathical winning titles are available at low cost to qualifying educators through the First Book Marketplace (see eligibility information via First Book)