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Math Adventures: Best-Selling Picture Books That Add Up to Great Stories!

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Discover a collection of top-selling picture books that seamlessly blend math with engaging stories. These books make learning numbers and math concepts fun and exciting for young readers, turning everyday storytime into a magical math adventure. Per...
 
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These four female African American mathematicians broke the color barrier and made history—helping to put US astronauts into space.
Hidden Figures | The Scholastic Teacher Store
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When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying math...nothing stopped Sophie. When a professor discovered that the homework sent to him under a male pen name came from a woman...nothing stopped Sophie. And when she ...
Nothing Stopped Sophie | The Scholastic Teacher Store
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Author shares some of the techniques that have helped him creatively solve problems in the most unexpected ways. Every riddle in this book poses a problem. Kids will learn valuable problem solving skills from winning combinations of clever games and ...
Math Appeal | The Scholastic Teacher Store
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Lola pretends to have a math allergy to get out of a math test
The Math Allergy
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NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Greg Tang challenges kids to solve problems creatively while introducing art history.
Math-terpieces | The Scholastic Teacher Store
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Mouse and her friends want to play tug-of-war, but they’ll need to use some everyday math to figure out how to make teams that are equal. As Mouse looks at various solutions she is not sure what it means to be equal. Nothing works until Mouse starts ...
Equal Shmequal (Charlesbridge Math Adventures)
 
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Do multiplication tables give you hives? Do you break out in a sweat when you see more than a few numbers hanging out together? Then I'm Trying to Love Math is for you! In her signature hilarious style, Bethany Barton introduces readers to the things...
I'm Trying to Love Math
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Mr. and Mrs. Comfort are having a family reunion! Mr. Comfort starts cooking up his famous spaghetti and meatballs, while Mrs. Comfort carefully arranges eight tables and thirty-two chairs so that everyone will have a seat. The tables look lovely, th...
Spaghetti and Meatballs For All!: A Math Story
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LouAnn the bear makes a dozen doughnuts for her winter nap, but as friends arrive, she happily shares and ends up making more! This fun story teaches sharing, friendship, and sneaks in basic math concepts like addition, division, and multiplication.
Dozens of Doughnuts by Carrie Finison
 
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A maths teacher, Mrs. Fibonacci, curses her students when she tells them maths is everywhere and almost everything can be seen as a maths problem. The main character spends torturous (and humourous) week solving problems until she finds a way to esca...
Math Curse by Jon Scieszka, Lane Smith, Hardcover - Barnes & Noble
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A crafty story about eighty racers determined to win The Great Divide. As they race, they face dangers that divide the group, once, twice, three times, and more! Will there be a racer left to cross the finish line?
The Great Divide: A Mathematical Marathon
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A Place for Zero tells the story of Zero, who is lonely in Digitaria. He can't even play Addemup, because he has nothing to add! All the other numbers have a place, but he can't seem to find where he belongs. That is until he discovers multiplicatio...
A Place for Zero (Charlesbridge Math Adventures)
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If you were a divided-by sign, you would divide things. You could divide pizza pies, presents, and stacks of cheese sandwiches. What else could you do if you were a divided-by sign?
If You Were a Divided-by Sign
 
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If you were a plus sign, you could add things together. You could add people and animals, and you could add up and down or side to side. If You Were a Plus Sign is part of Trisha Speed Shaskan's best-selling Math Fun series that provides creative mat...
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Explore all the things you could do if you were a minus sign, such as subtracting one number from another or subtracting food and balloons. With every problem in this book, you will find the difference.
If You Were a Minus Sign|Paperback
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He loved math so much that he spent all of his time thinking about numbers. He spent so much time with math that he couldn't do many things that ordinary people do. The biography tells the story of Paul Erdos, one of the greatest mathematicians, and ...
The Boy Who Loved Math: Paul Erdos
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Doogie dreams of a career the NBA, but when he struggles to buy a basketball, he realizes his place value skills need work! Enter Tenacious Ten, an intergalactic superhero, who teaches him the wonders of the base 10 system. Perfect for 3rd-6th grader...
The Power of 10
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Children can test their math skills and learn the Pythagorean Theorem alongside young Pythagoras in this STEM adventure. Pythagoras’ curiosity takes him from Samos to Alexandria, where he meets a builder named Neferheperhersekeper, who introduces hi...
What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? (Math)
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When a valuable fraction goes missing, George Cornelius Factor (a.k.a. GCF) vows to track it down. Knowing that the villainous Dr. Brok likes to disguise his ill-gotten fractions, G.C.F. invents a Reducer—half ray gun, half calculator— that strips aw...
Fractions in Disguise: A Math Adventure
 
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In this story, the Elm Street Kids decide to raise money by selling lemonade. At first, business booms, but then it drops off. The Elm Street Kids use a bar graph to plot the number of cups sold on each day of the week and figure out what to do. Youn...
Lemonade for Sale (MathStart 3)
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