A peek into the chaos of our upcoming school year

It’s that frantic time when most homeschooling parents are realizing that they actually need to PLAN the upcoming year.  And just so that I feel like a part of the craziness….here are our plans for the 2011-2012 year (subject to change!)

And just for reference, I have four boys, ages 11, 10, 7 and 5.  We also school year-round so we’re actually right in the middle of some studies, halfway through levels and other such confusing things.

Devotional – family, daily, 30 minutes

We are members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints and will be reading the Book of Mormon and Old Testament as a family.  My two older boys will be doing a study from Discover the Scriptures. 

We will continue to work on our Scripture Memory Work using this system.

  

We are working our way through the hymn book and children’s songbook from our church (we sing the same hymn every day until we know it).  We also read the children’s magazine put out by our church called The Friend.  And we choose one “religious” book to read – right now it’s a history of our church.  Next will be a scripture hero book.

And this isn’t a part of “religion” but we also do the following during devotional time:

One idiom -  (I have the old version)

Vocabulary Cartoons (2 pages) 

Manners Made Easy  

History – family, 4 x a week, 20 to 30 minutes

We are finishing up American History (we’ll stop right before WWI).  We’ve used a booklist I compiled.  We should be done in another month or two and will then move to the Ancient World again.

  

Because I like pain, we’re going to try to cram Egypt, Rome and Greece into one year.  I’ll use the Simply Charlotte Mason guide books and their suggested readings with a few books of my own choosing thrown in.

Science – family, daily, 20 to 30 minutes

We have a few weeks left of chemistry and will then move into an eclectic mix of biology, physics and earth science.  We’ll finish Flying Creatures (younger Apologia series - we did half the book last year), and work on Ocean Animals as well as Land Animals (from the same series).  For physics we’ll be using Real Science 4 Kids.  And for earth science I’m undecided.   We might do a week or two on botany as well (the boys vetoed anything longer).

We’ll also throw in some nature study books here and there (actually, on Fridays).  I have a ton downloaded on my Kindle or bookmarked around the web.

Piano – individually, daily, 20 minutes

Taught by dad.  Mom is not talented that way.

Foreign Language – family, daily, 10 minutes

Starting Hebrew and Portuguese.  My husband is a Hebrew speaker and I’m a Portuguese one so we’ll be teaching them ourselves, using our own small brains.  I’ll be trying to use the Sarah and David Hebrew books with them as well.

Math – daily, 30 minutes each (all taught separately)

Right Start for all of them.  Still love it almost 3 years later.

Spelling – individually, daily, 10 to 20 minutes

We use All About Spelling.  They are each in a different level.  Love, love, love it.

Literature/Read-Alouds – daily, 20 to 30 minutes

I use this list for the family.  I read one book to them during the day and their dad reads one at bedtime.  We’ll try to get through as many as we can.

  

The younger boys and I have “Circle Time” where we sing songs and read a few books from this list.  The older boys work on their workboxes or chores during that time. 

  

On Fridays we read Fairy Tales (currently an Andrew Lang Fairy book).

Geography - family, once a week, 30 minutes

Instead of history on Friday, we work on geography.  I use Galloping the Globe as a guide and grab whatever books I can from the library about a specific country.  It takes us several months per country.  China is next.  And we haven't voted on the one after that.

We also do a Map Drill on Friday with our geography.  Currently we're working on the United States.  All four boys participate (I write for the 5-year-old).

Artist Study – family, once a week, 10 minutes

I’m following this list I made.  We are on Botticelli.

Composer Study – family, once a week, 10 minutes then listen to pieces throughout the week

Following this list I made.  We just finished Mozart.

Poetry – family, once a week, 10 minutes

I just grab a poetry book and we read from it. 

Art – family, once a week, 10 minutes

A woman from our church unit comes and teaches them about art and does projects with them every Thursday afternoon.  I get to play with her baby girl. 

Older boys:

Each of them has a workbox (milk-type crate with file folders).  They will do the following subjects (daily) on their own:

1.  Scriptures – read 10 minutes a day
2. Discover the Scriptures Book of Mormon (as listed above)
3.  Copywork
4. Grammar – we use Growing With Grammar
5. Explode the Code
6.  Cursive – Handwriting Without Tears
7. Math worksheet – a one page practice sheet
8. Geography – Daily Geography Practice
9. One boy is doing Star-Spangled States
10. Switcheroo – every day I change what is in the folder – homophones, story prompts, crossword puzzle, etc.
11. Exercise – 20 minutes, they choose the activity

Then 3 times a week they will do some independent reading in history or science.  They will work on transitioning from oral narrations to written narrations this year.  Yippee!

Once a week they will have a Logic class and we’ll be reading and discussing The Thinking Toolbox together.

One of my sons needs extra reading practice so he works with me an additional 30 minutes or so a day, using Happy Phonics for games.  The rest of the time is just spent reading outloud.

7-year-old
He joins his older brothers for devotional, history, science, read-alouds, foreign language, and the other family studies.  He works individually with me for math and reading/spelling.  We use Happy Phonics for reading games.


His workboxes contain:

1. Scripture reading – 10 minutes with mom
2. Math worksheet
3. Explode the Code
4. Handwriting – printing, Handwriting Without Tears

He will probably start copywork with year.

5-year-old

His job is to stay out of my hair and not jump all over our stuff.  He has a variety of games, activities, iPod apps, etc to keep him occupied.

He is working on his handwriting using Handwriting Without Tears.  He is also learning to read using a crazy and disorganized mix of Happy Phonics, Now I’m Reading series, Starfall and the Preschool Prep dvds.  He also sits in on all family subjects and on the 7-year-olds math and spelling lessons (his choice).

Prepared Dictation

We're about to embark on the Prepared Dictation voyage. Here's how it works....

at about age 9 or 10 you have your child do prepared dictation once a week. They will look at a passage, paying special attention to how words are spelled. After a bit they close their eyes to see if they can remember how the words look. If they can't, they look again at the passage and try to "take a picture" of the words. It might help to trace the word on the table with their finger or to spell it out loud. After they are sure they know how to spell the words, ask them to look at the punctuation and capitalization. When they've had enough time to do this, you will begin the dictation.

Read the passage slowly, stopping after a few words so that the child can write easily. As they get older you'll be able to read longer passages, but at first keep it shorter. If they make a mistake immediately cover it up (Post-its work well for that) and have them continue. When they have completed the passage have them correct the mistake either on top of the Post-it or YOU erase it and have them respell it. You don't want them to look at the misspelled word because then their brain takes a "picture" of it and they have a hard time remembering the correct way to spell it. If you do this casually and without criticism the child won't feel 'bad' about getting things wrong.

I have prepared a "book" to help me do this. At first the dictation passages are short and in large print so the boys will have an easier time studying them. As they move further along the path, the passages become longer and the font reduces to more normal sizes. I've chosen to include several passages per page merely for the purpose of saving ink and paper. I intend to cover up the passages they are not working on so they don't get confused. I have noticed that many dictation books have one passage per page, but I was trying to be frugal here.  I have done my best to make sure paragraphs or quotes remain o n the same page.  For example, the beginning of the Declaration of Independence is several paragraphs long.  Two or three fit on a page, then I pushed the next paragraph to a new page so it would not be divided.  You can choose to have your kids do one paragraph at a time, or learn the whole thing (for older kids).

You could also use these lists for copywork. I have! I print them up and cut them out and stick them in my Copywork Jars. Every day the boys take out one or two strips of paper and copy them into their books. I'll post the other pages I've made for the Jars soon.

These lists would also make a great memorization tool.

One thing I want to do with dictation is to create a meaningful book of scripture, advice and encouragement. I've tried to keep all the quotes uplifting and worthwhile so that (hopefully) they will look back over this in years to come and find peace and guidance in the words.

I have prepared one file for with verses from the King James version of the Bible, with other quotes, etc and one for those who are LDS (Mormon).

Favorite Quotes

While I have been using a Charlotte Mason style education for 5 years now, I haven't (cough, cough) read her actual works. I've been busy!!!! But I'm taking the time to read them now...and it will take a while....

I'm going to be adding my favorite quotes from her books, mainly as a way for me to consolidate all the gems into one area. I won't be creating new posts each time; I'll just add on to this one. And I probably won't keep it strictly Charlotte Mason. It will probably morph into other thoughts, quotes and ideas as relates to education. My own personal page to inspire and uplift.

So if you're interested, bookmark this and check back often as it is a work in progess.

From Home Education (Book One) by Charlotte Mason

Children are thinking, feeling human beings, with spirits to be kindled and not vessels to be filled.

All children are entitled to a liberal education based upon good literature and the arts.

Liberal meaning, taking whatsover things are true, honest, and of good report, and offering no limitation or hinderance saver where excess should injure.

Education is an atmosphere - take into account the educational value of his natural home environment and let him live freely among his proper conditions.

Education is a discipline - the discipline of habits formed definitely and thoughtfully.

Education is a life - the need of intellectual and moral as well as of physical sustenance is implied. The mind feeds on ideas and therefore children should have a generous curriculum.

Education is a science of relations - the child has natural relations with a vast number of things and thoughts; so we must train him upon physical exercises, nature, handicrafts, science and art, and upon many living books.

We should allow no separation to grow up between the intellectual and the spiritual life of children.

Do not let the children pass a day without distinct efforts, intellectual, moral, and volitional; let them brace themselves to understand; let them compel themselves to do and to bear; and let them do right at sacrifice of ease and pleasure.

The morning, after breakfast, is much the best time for lessons and every sort of mental work; if the whole afternoon cannot be spared for out-of-door recreation, that is the time for mechanical tasks such as needlework, drawing and practising.

The brain, or some portion of the brain, becomes exhausted with any given function has been exercised too long. The child has been doing sums for some time, and is getting unaccountably stupid: take away his slate and let him read history, and you find his wits fresh again.

Give the brain of the child variety of work.

No pains should be spared to make the hours of meeting round the family table the brightest hours of the day...Here is the parents' opportunity to train them in manners and in morals, to cement family love...

The whole house should be kept light and bright...indoor airings...ventilation of rooms

Intellectual, moral, even spiritual life and progress depend greatly upon physical conditions.

Never be within doors when you can rightly be without...food can be served outdoors...every hour spent outside is a clear gain.

Of the evils of modern education few are worse than this - that the perpetual cackle of his elders leaves the poor child not a moment of time, nor an inch of space, wherein to wonder - and grow.

When outside...they must be let alone...it is not the mother's job to entertain the little people...first send the children to let off their spirits in a wild scamper...then send them off on an exploring expedition.

Get the children to look well at some patch of landscape, and then to shut their eyes and call up the picture before them.

Children should know field crops, flowers, trees, the seasons. Mothers and teachers should know about nature.

Nature drawings should be left to his own initiative. Do not instruct 'this is how we do this' or 'that is how it should be done.'

Children should be encouraged to watch, patiently and quietly, until they learn something of the habits and history of bee, ant, wasp, spider, hairy caterpillar, dragon-fly, and whatever of larger growth comes in their way.

Every child has a natural interest in the living things about him which it is the business of his parents to encourage; for, but few children are equal to holding their own in the face of public opinion; and if they see that the things which interest them are indifferent or disgusting to you, their pleasure in them vanishes.

An observant child should be put in the way of things worth observing.

It is infinitely well worth the mother's while to take some pains every day to secure, in the first place, that her children spend hours daily amongst the rural and natural objects...to infuse into them...a love of investigation.

Other inspirational education quotes

Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

Son this is history. It’s our history. Some of it is painful, some of it is beautiful, but it is who we are. - Jason F. Wright

A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

If we continue to send our children to Caesar for their education, we need to stop being surprised when they come home as Romans. ~ Dr. Voddie Baucham

Too often we give children answers to remember rather than problems to solve. - Roger Lewin

I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. - Albert Einstein

There are two types of education… One should teach us how to make a living…and the other, how to live. - John Adams

The idea is to educate, not follow anyone’s schedule about when something should be studied. - Ray Drouillard

I believe it would be much better for everyone if children were given their start in education at home. No one understands a child as well as his mother, and children are so different that they need individual training and study. A teacher with a room full of pupils cannot do this. At home, too, they are in their mother's care. She can keep them from learning immoral things from other children. - Laura Ingalls Wilder

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. --Mark Twain

I still say the only education worth anything is self-education. - Robert Frost

He is educated who knows how to find out what he doesn't know. - George Simmel

I learned most, not from those who taught me but from those who talked with me. - St. Augustine

Sitting together in the Big Creek auditorium at lunch, we taught ourselves trigonometry.  I had discovered that learning something, no matter how complex, wasn't hard when I had a reason to want to know it. - Homer H. Hickam, Jr.

Composer Study

I briefly hit on how we do composer study earlier, but thought I'd expound on it and give you my list. We are trying to study them chronologically, more or less. We read a short bio, usually from the Mike Venezia series. If he doesn't have a book we try to find some other children's picture book. When they are older we'll use The Gift of Music and The Spiritual Lives of the Great Composers.

We listen to the Classics for Kids presentation and then to various other pieces by the composer. My husband has a rather extensive collection of classical music so I have a lot available. What I can't find we search the internet. We also watch YouTube clips now and then to see the people actually performing the work.

We will also do a study of a few "types" of music including opera, ballet, the orchestra, broadway, Jazz/Big Band and classical guitar.

For opera we will use:
Sing Me a Story - Jane Rosenburg
Bravo! Brava!: A Night at the Opera - Anne Siberell
The Hamster Opera Company - Janis Mitchell

For ballet we will use:
A Child's Introduction to Ballet - Laura Lee
Illustrated Book of Ballet Stories - Barbara Newman
Dance Me a Story - Jane Rosenburg
The Hamster Ballet Company - Janis Mitchell

For the orchestra we will use:
Story of the Orchestra - Robert Levine
Zin! Zin! Zin! A Violin - Lloyd Moss
whatever books we can find by Anna Harwell Celenza

For broadway we'll read The Great American Mousical by Julie Andrews, then listen to and watch a few musicals.

For jazz/big band/rag time we'll watch some video clips on YouTube and listen to some CDs.  My husband is a huge fan of this music so he'll be teaching more about it than I will.

And here are the men we'll be studying:

Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643)

Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

George Frideric Handel (1685-1759)

Cristoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787)

Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Franz Schubert (1797-1828)

Ludwig Van Beethoven (1770-1827)

Niccolo Paganini (1782-1840)

Carl Maria von Weber (1786-1826)

Gioacchino Rossini (1792-1868)

Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848)

Vincenzo Bellini (1801-1835)

Felix Mendelssohn (1809-1847)

Hector Berlioz (1803-1869)

Charles Gounod (1818-1892)

Frederic Chopin (1810-1849)

Robert Schumann (1810-1856)

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

Johann Strauss II (1825-1899)

Alexander Borodin (1833-1887)

Georges Bizet (1838-1875)

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897)

Modest Mussorgsky (1839-1881)

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov (1844-1908)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893)

Guiseppe Verdi (1813-1901)

Richard Wagner(1813-1883)

Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880)

Bedrich Smetana (1824-1884)

Leo Delibes (1836-1891)

Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921)

Edvard Grieg (1843-1907)

Antonin Dvorak (1841-1904)

Giacomo Puccini (1858-1924)

Gustav Mahler (1860-1911)

Claude Debussy (1862-1918)

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Jean Sibelius (1865-1957)

Maurice Ravel (1875-1937)

Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953)

Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975)

Sergei Rachmaninov (1873-1943)

Bela Bartok (1881-1945)

Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971)

Aaron Copland (1900-1990)

Leonard Bernstein (1918-1990)

Artist Study

Below is the list of artists we might study over the years. We try to read a short biography then we study one picture a week, for about 6 weeks.  I love the Mike Venezia Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artist series.  If he doesn't have a book about a particular artist I check the library or Amazon for suggestions.  If all else fails I hit Wikipedia.

I used to worry about matching the artist with the historical time period we were studying, but it became too stressful and I felt like I was being ruled by the schedule instead of enjoying the process of learning.  We now study whoever, whenever, and the kids make the connections themselves.  We do add them to a timeline/Book of Centuries so they get a good feel for when the artist lived.

I print out pictures from a yahoo group at Ambleside Online.  They are nicely formatted with the title included.  Simply Charlotte Mason has some beautiful artist study portfolios as well. If we study an artist they don't have pictures for then I try to find a calendar or book, or print something from the internet.  We have an easel and picture frame where we display the picture (or book or calendar).  Each week we switch the picture for  new one.  The pictures are then stored in a 3-ring binder, in page protectors, so we can look back through them (and use them next time around).  Basically, we are creating our own art book (with mom-approved pictures).

Simply Charlotte Mason has an excellent description of how to "look" at the pictures for artist study here.


Giotto di Bondone (1266 - 1337)
Jan Van Eyck (1395 - 1441)
Fra Angelico (1395 - 1445)
Sandro Botticelli (1445 - 1510)
Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
Albrecht Durer (1471 - 1528)
Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475 - 1564)
Raphael Sanzio (1483 - 1520)
Titian (1485 - 1576)
Pieter Breugel the Elder (1525 - 1569)

El Greco (1541 - 1614)
Caravaggio (1571 - 1610)
Peter Paul Rubens (1577 - 1640)
Frans Hals (1580 - 1666)
Diego Velasquez (1599 - 1660; read I, Juan de Pareja)
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606 - 1669)
Jacob van Ruisdael (1628 - 1682)
Pieter De Hootch (1629 - 1684)
Johannes (or Jan) Vermeer (1632 - 1675)
Jean Honore Fragonard (1732 - 1806)
Benjamin West (1738 - 1820)
John Singleton Copley (1738 - 1815)
Francisco Goya (1746 - 1828)
Jacques-Louis David (1748 - 1825)
Caspar David Friedrich (1774 - 1840)

Gilbert Stuart (1755 - 1828)
JMW Turner (1775 - 1851)
Constable (1776 - 1837)
John James Audubon (1785 - 1851)
Camille Corot (1796 - 1875)
Eugene Delacroix (1798 - 1863)
George Caleb Bingham (1811 - 1879)

Hudson River Artists

          Thomas Cole (1801 - 1848)

          Frederick Edwin Church (1826 - 1900)

          Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823 - 1900)

          Asher Durand (1796 - 1886)

Jean Francois Millet (1814 - 1875)
Gustave Courbet (1819 - 1877)
Rosa Bonheur (1822 - 1899)
George Inness (1825 - 1894)
Albert Bierstadt (1830 - 1902)
Camille Pissarro (1830 - 1903)
Edouard Manet (1832 - 1883)
Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917)
James Whistler (1834 - 1903)
Winslow Homer (1836 - 1910)
Paul Cezanne (1839 - 1906)
Claude Monet (1840 - 1926)
Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841 - 1919)
Mary Cassatt (1844 - 1926)
Paul Gauguin (1848 - 1903)
John William Waterhouse (1849 - 1917)

Vincent van Gogh (1853 - 1890)

John Singer Sargent (1856 - 1925)

Georges Seurat (1859 - 1891)
Grandma Moses (1860 - 1961)
Frederic Remington (1861 - 1909)
Henri Matisse (1869 - 1954)
Maxfield Parrish (1870 - 1966)
Paul Klee (1879 - 1940)
Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)

N.C. Wyeth (1882 - 1945)
Edward Hopper (1882 - 1967)
Diego Rivera (1886 - 1957)
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887 - 1986)
Marc Chagall (1887 - 1985)
Horace Pippin (1888 - 1946)
Minerva Reichert (1888 - 1976)
Grant Wood (1891 - 1942)

Norman Rockwell (1894 - 1978)
Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965)
Rene Magritte (1898 - 1967)
Alexander Calder (1898 - 1976)

MC Escher (1898 - 1972)

Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984)
Salvador Dali (1904 - 1989)
Frida Kahlo (1907 - 1954)
Jackson Pollock (1912 - 1956)
Arnold Friberg (1913 - 2010)
Jacob Lawrence (1917 - 2000)
Roy Lichtenstein (1923 - 1997)
Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987)
Faith Ringgold (1930 - )
P. Buckley Moss (1933 - )
James Christensen (1942 - )
Del Parson (1948 - )
Christian Riese Lassen (1949 - )
Frans Lanting (1951 - )
Liz Lemon Swindle (1953 - )

Thomas Kinkade (1958 - 2012)
Greg Olsen (1958 - )
Simon Dewey (1962 - )

Did I miss any of your favorites?  

Living Math - Math Read-alouds

Here is a list of books I've gathered to be used as math read-alouds.  Most of them would qualify as "living math".  I've organized them (roughly) in the order a child would learn the concepts.  I have NOT read them all so don't get mad if the book stinks!  

ELEMENTARY

Counting

1 is One - Tasha Tudor

26 Letters and 99 Cents - Tana Hoban

100 Days of Cool - Stuart Murphy (#s 1-100)

A Number of Dragons - Loreen Leedy

A Shaker's Dozen - Kathleen Thorne-Thomsen

Animal Babies: A Counting Book - Daniel Moreton

Animal Numbers - Bert Kitchen (Counting & number recog to 100)

April Rabbits - David Cleveland

Bat Jamboree - Kathi Applet

Chicken Little Count to Ten - Margaret Friskey

Emperor and the New Kite - Jane Yolen

Every Buddy Counts - Stuart Murphy

Fish Eyes - Lois Ehlert

Five Chinese Brothers - Clair Huchet Bishop

Five Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed - Eileen Christelow

Frogs Jump - Alan Brooks

Henry the Fourth - Stuart Murphy (ordinal numbers)

How Many Can you See? - Hannah Reidy

How Many Feet in the Bed? - Diane Johnston Ham

How Many Hippos?: A Mix-And-Match Counting Book - Muff Singer

How Many Snails?  A Counting Book - Paul Giganti, Jr.

Jack the Builder - Stuart Murphy (adding on)

Leaping Lizards - Stuart Murphy (counting by 5s and 10s)

Little Quack - Lauren Thompson

Mouse by Mouse: A Counting Adventure - Julia Noonan

Mouse Trail - Mary Octavia Davis

Number Ideas Through Pictures - Mannis Charosh

Number One, Number Fun - Kay Chorao

Numbers (The) - Monique Felix

One...Two... Three... Sassafrass - Stuart Murphy

One Green Mosquito Tree - Jernigan Gisela

One Hungry Monster - Susan Heyboer O'Keefe

One Lonely Seahorse - Joost Elffers

Pigs From 1 to 10 - Arthur Geisert

Right Number of Elephants- Jeff Sheppard

Roman Numerals - David A. Adler

Seven Blind Mice - Ed Young

Seven Diving Ducks - Margaret Friskey

Seven Silly Eaters - Mary Ann Hoberman

Sheep Asleep - Gloria Rothstein

Six Dinner Sid - Inga Moore

Splash - Ann Jonas

Ten Sly Piranhas - William Wise

When Sheep Cannot Sleep - Satoshi Kitamura

Who Invited You? - Candace Fleming

Shapes (there are so many shape books that I've only included a few I'd never heard of - the rest you can easily find on a library shelf)

Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes - Stuart Murphy

Circus Shapes - Stuart Murphy (recognizing shapes)

Picture Pie - Ed Emberley

Picture Pie 2 - Ed Emberley

Windows, Rings and Grapes – A Look at Different Shapes – Brian Cleary

Sorting/Patterning

3 Little Firefighters - Stuart Murphy (sorting)

A Pair of Socks - Stuart Murphy (matching sets)

A-b-a-b-a – A Book of Pattern Play – Brian Cleary

Beep, Beep...Vroom, Vroom - Stuart Murphy (patterns, sorting)

Changes, Changes - Pat Hutchins (visual and auditory patterns)

More or Less a Mess - Sheila Keenan (sorting, categorizing)

Only One - Marc Harshman (sets)

Patterns in Peru - Cindy Neuschwander

Rabbits Pajama Party - Stuart Murphy (sequencing)

Seaweed Soup - Stuart Murphy (matching sets)

Days/Weeks

Clever Cat - Peter Collington

Cookie's Week - Cindy Ward

Day by Day a Week Goes Round - Carol Diggory Shields

Dinosaur Days - Linda Manning

First Things First - Charlotte Voak

Happy Birthday, Word Bird - Jane Belk Moncure

Magical, Mystical, Marvelous Coat - Catherine Ann Cullen

Oliver's Vegetables - Vivian French

On Friday Something Funny Happened - John Prater

One Lighthouse, One Moon - Anita Lobel

Three Two One Day - Debbie Discoll (maybe Driscoll)

Very Hungry Caterpillar - Eric Carle

What a Wonderful Day to be a Cow - Carolyn Lesser

Calendar

Jessie Bear, What Will You Wear? - Nancy White Carlstrom

My Grandmother's Clock - Geraldine McCaughrean (clocks and calendars)

Pepper's Journal - Stuart Murphy (calendar)

Months

A Busy Year - Leo Lionni

A Red Wagon Year - Kathi Appelt

A Year of Beasts - Ashley Wolff

A Year for Kiko - Ferida Wolff

All Year Long - Nancy Tafuri

Calendarbears:  A Book of Months - Kathleen Hague

Caps, Hats, Socks and Mittens - Louise W. Borden

Chicken Soup with Rice - Maurice Sendak

How Do You Say it Today, Jesse Bear? - Nancy White Carlstrom

Jump for Joy: A Book of Months - Megan Halsey

Month By Month A Year Goes Round - Carol Diggory Shields

What Will the Weather Be Like Today? - Paul Rogers

When the Box is Full - Patricia Lillie

Year at Maple Hill Farm - Alice Provensen

Addition/Subtraction

12 Ways to Get to 11 - Eve Merriam

A High-Fiving Gift for Mom - Judy Bradbury (includes $ and skip counting)

Action of Subtraction – Brian Cleary

Animals On Board - Stuart Murphy

Each Orange Has 8 Slices - Paul Giganti

Double Bubble Trouble - Judy Bradbury (counting by 2s)

Double the Ducks - Stuart Murphy (doubling numbers)

Elevator Magic - Stuart Murphy (subtraction)

Family Minus - Fernando Krahn

Five Silly Fishermen - Roberta Edwards

Grapes of Math - Greg Tang (moving into multiplication)

Great Take-Away - Louise Mathews

Jack the Builder - Stuart Murphy (adding on)

Leaping Lizards - Stuart Murphy (counting by 5s and 10s)

Mall Mania - Stuart Murphy (addition strategies)

Math-Terpieces - Greg Tang

Math Fables - Greg Tang

Math for All Season - Greg Tang

Mission Addition - Loreen Leedy

Mission of Addition – Brian Cleary

Monster Musical Chairs - Stuart Murphy (subtracting by 1)

Mouse Count - Ellen Stoll Walsh

Mystery of the Farmer's Three Fives - Margaret Friskey

Next Stop Grand Central - Maira Kalman

Numberline Lane series - Fiona Reynolds

One Carton of OOPS - Judy Bradbury

One More Bunny - Rick Walton

Panda Math - Ann Whitehead Nagda (subtraction)

Ready, Set, Hop - Stuart Murphy

Safari Park - Stuart Murphy

Sea Sums - Joy Hulme

Shark Swimathon - Stuart Murphy (subtract 2 digit numbers)

Spunky Monkeys on Parade - Stuart Murphy (counting by 2s, 3s, 4s)

Stay in Line - Teddy Slater

Tally O'Malley - Stuart Murphy

This is the House That Jack Built - Liz Underhill

Operations

Animals on Board - Stuart Murphy

Chugga Chugga Choo Choo - Kevin Lewis

More, Fewer. Less - Tana Hoban (operations)

Splash! - Ann Jonas

Tens, Hundreds, Place Value

100 Days of Cool - Stuart Murphy

12 Ways to Get to 11 - Eve Merriam

512 Ant on Sullivan Street - Carol Losi (doubling)

98, 99, 100.  Ready or Not, Here I Come - Teddy Slater (skip counting of various numbers)

Base Five (Young Math) - David Adler

Binary Numbers - Clyde Watson

Counting Systems - Marnie Luce

Earth Day - Hooray! - Stuart Murphy

Fair Bear Share - Stuart Murphy (regrouping)

How Did Numbers Begin? - Mindel Sitomer (history of numbers)

King's Chessboard - David Birch

Millions of Cats - Wanda Gag

Monster Math Picnic - Grace Maccarone

Mouse Count - Ellen Stoll Walsh

One Hundred Hungry Ants - Elinor Pinczes

One Hundred is a Family - Pat Munoz Ryan

Roman Numerals I to MM - Athur Geisart

Senefer: A Young Genius in Old Egypt - Beatrice Lumpkin (addition, multiplication, number bases)

Tea for Ten - Lena Anderson

Ten Friends - Bruce Goldstone

Ten Monkey Jamboree - Dianne Ochiltree

Two Hundred Rabbits - Lonzo Anderson

Odd/Even

Even Steven and Odd Todd - Kathryn Cristaldi

Missing Mittens - Stuart Murphy (odd and even)

My Even Day – Doris Fisher

Number Ideas Through Pictures - Mannis Charosh  (even,square/triangular numbers)

Ocean Counting: Odd Numbers - Jerry Pallotta

Odds and Evens - Thomas O'Brien

One Odd Day - Doris Fisher (odd and even numbers)

Underwater Counting: Even Numbers - Jerry Pallotta

Zero

A Place for Zero - Angeline Sparagna Lopresti

Zero is not Nothing - Mindel and Harry Sitomer

Measurements/Mapping

Blast Off of Earth!: A Look at Geography - Loreen Leedy

Bug Dance - Stuart Murphy (directions)

Dear Benjamin Banneker - Brian Pinkney (land surveyor)

Felix Explores Planet Earth - Annette Langen

How Big Is a Foot? - Rolf Myller

How Little and How Much: A Book about Scales - Franklyn M. Branley

How Much and How Many - Jeanne Bendick

How Tall, How Short, How Faraway - David Adler

If You Hopped Like a Frog - David M. Schwartz

Inch By Inch - Leo Lionni

Inchworm and a Half - Elinor J. Pinczes

How Long or How Wide? – Brian Cleary

Learning About Measurement - Sylvia Horne

Librarian Who Measured the Earth - Kevin Hawkes

Long and Short of Measurements - Vicki Cobb

Mapping Penny's World - Loreen Leedy

Many Moons - James Thurber (size, distance)

Measuring Penny - Loreen Leedy

Mighty Maddie - Stuart Murphy (comparing weights)

Millions to Measure - David M. Schwartz

On the Scale, a Weighty Tale – Brian Cleary

Pigs in the Pantry - Amy Axelrod (measuring and following directions)

Polly's Pen Pal - Stuart Murphy (metrics)

Room for Ripley - Stuart Murphy (capacity)

So Big!  My First Measuring Book - Keith Falkner

Super Saturday Sand Castle - Stuart Murphy (measuring)

Sven's Bridge - Anita Lobel

Too Many Cooks - Andrea Buckless

Treasure Map - Stuart Murphy (mapping)

Weighing & Balancing - Jane Jonas Srivastava

What's Up With That Cup? - Sheila Keenan

Where's My Teddy? - Jez Albourough

Who Put the Pepper in the Pot? - Joanna Cole

Comparing/Estimating

Actual Size - Steve Jenkins

Averages - Jane Jonas Srivastava

Best Bug Parade - Stuart Murphy

Betcha! - Stuart Murphy

Bigger and Smaller - Robert Froman

Biggest, Strongest, Fastest - Steve Jenkins

Counting on Frank - Rod Clement

Dave's Down to Earth Rock Shop - Stuart Murphy (classifying)

Estimation - Charles Linn

Equal Shmequal - Virginia Kroll

Fattest, Tallest, Biggest Snowman Ever - Bettina Ling

Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest - Steve Jenkins

How Much, How Many, How Far..... - Helen Nolan

How Tall, How Short, How Far Away - David Adler

I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Pie - Alison Jackson

If You Hopped Like a Frog - David Schwartz

Is the Blue Whale the Biggest Thing Ever? - Robert Wells

Jim and the Beanstalk - Raymond Briggs

Just Enough Carrots - Stuart Murphy

Long, Short, High, Low, Thin, Wide - James T. Fey

Mice Twice - Joseph Low (size, perspective)

Mighty Maddie - Stuart Murphy (comparing weight)

More or Less - Stuart Murphy (comparing numbers)

Much Bigger Than Martin - Steven Kellogg

Slower Than a Snail - Anne Schreiber

So Big!  My First Measuring Book - Keith Falkner

Tallest, Shortest, Longest, Greenest.... - Keith Falkner

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Simms Taback

Twice Upon a Time - Irwin Shapiro

What's Faster Than a Speeding Cheetah? - Robert Wells

What's Smaller Than a Pygmy Shrew? - Robert Wells

What's Up With That Cup? - Sheila Keenan

Time

Bats Around the Clock - Kathi Appelt

Bunny Day:  Telling Time From Breakfast to Bedtime - Rick Walton

Chimp Math - Ann Whitehead Nagda (time)

Game Time! - Stuart Murphy (time)

Get Up and Go - Stuart Murphy (timelines)

Grouchy Ladybug - Eric Carle (clocks and calendars)

It's About Time - Stuart Murphy (hours)

Rodeo Time - Stuart Murphy (reading a schedule)

Time for Friends - Luke Holzmann

What Time is it Mr. Crocodile? - Judy Sierra

Money

26 Letters and 99 Cents - Tana Hoban

A Bargain for Frances - Russell Hoban

A Day's Work - Eve Bunting (value of work)

A Kid's Guide to Managing Money - Joy Wilt

A Quarter From the Tooth Fairy - Caren Holtzman

Alexander, Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday - Judith Viorst (money management)

Arthur's Funny Money - Lillian Hoban

Benny's Pennies - Pat Brisson

Big Buck Adventure - Shelley Gill

Bunny Money - Rosemary Wells

Ginger & Pickles - Beatrix Potter (credit, borrowing, running business)

How Much is that Guinea Pig in the Window? - Joanne Rocklin

How to Get Fabulously Rich - Thomas Rockwell (chapter book)

If You Made a Million - David Schwartz

Irene and the Big Fine Nickel - Irene Smalls

Lunch Line - Karen Berman Nagel

Make Four Million Dollars by Next Thursday - Stephen Manes (chapter book)

Making Sense of Money - Vicki Cobb

Math Man - Teri Daniels (grocery store math story)

Monster Money - Penny Maccarone

Monster Money Book - Loreen Leedy

Money Tree - Sarah Stewart

Money Troubles - Bill Cosby Little Bill series

Mr. Monopoly's Amusement Park, A Math Adventure - Jackie Glassman

No Small Change - John Luksetich (money plus greater than concepts)

One Bright Penny - Geraldine McCaughrean

Penny Pot - Stuart Murphy (coin combinations)

Pigs Will Be Pigs - Amy Axelrod (money)

Slugger's Car Wash - Stuart Murphy (dollars and cents)

Tight Times - Barbara Shook Hazen (dad loses job)

Toothpaste Millionaire - Jean Merrill

Multiplication

512 Ant on Sullivan Street - Carol Losi (doubling)

98, 99, 100.  Ready or Not, Here I Come - Teddy Slater (skip counting of various numbers)

Amanda Bean's Amazing Dream - Cindy Neuschwander (multiplication as fast counting)

Arctic Fives Arrive - Elinor Pinczes (skip counting by 5s)

Building Tables on Tables: A Book about Multiplication - John V. Trivett

Bunches of Bunnies - Louise Mathews (intro to multiplication)

Double the Ducks - Stuart Murphy (doubling)

Elsie Times Eight - Natalie Babbitt

Grapes of Math - Greg Tang (moving into multiplication)

Henry and the Boy Who Thought Fleas Were Numbers - Marjorie Kaplan (multiplication tables)

Just Add Fun - Joann Rocklin (multiplication)

King's Commissioners - Aileen Friedman (multiplication, skip counting)

Math Appeal - Greg Tang (grouping and skip counting)

Multiplying Menace:  The Revenge of Rumpilstiltskin - Pam Calvert

One Hundred Hungry Ants - Elinor Pinczes

Senefer: A Young Genius in Old Egypt - Beatrice Lumpkin (addition, multiplication)

Socrates and the Three Little Pigs - Mitsumasa Anno (advanced, but use for multiplication, skip counting)

Spunky Monkeys on Parade - Stuart Murphy (counting by 2s, 3s, 4s)

Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do - Stuart Murphy (intro to multiplication)

Two Ways to Count to Ten - Ruby Dee

Division

A Remainder of One - Elinor Pinczes (division, factors)

Cheetah Math - Ann Whitehead Nagda (division)

Divide and Ride - Stuart Murphy (division)

Doorbell Rang - Pat Hutchins (intro to division)

Great Divide: A Mathematical Marathon - Dayle Ann Dodds (halving)

Greatest Guessing Game: A Book about Dividing - Robert Froman

One Hungry Cat - Joann Rocklin (division)

Rabbit and Hare Divide an Apple - Harriet Ziefert

Spaghetti and Meatballs for All - Marilyn Burns (division)

Decimals

Calculator Mania - Planet Dexter editors (decimals)

Rounding

Coyotes All Around - Stuart Murphy (rounding)

Square Numbers

My Full Moon is Square - Elinor Pinczes (intro to square numbers)

Sea Squares - Joy Hulme (squaring)

Fractions

Apple Fractions - Jerry Pallotta

Doggone Lemonade Stand - Judy Bradbury (fractions)

Each Orange Has 8 Slices - Paul Giganti (addition, subtraction, division)

Eating Fractions - Bruce McMillan (fractions)

Everything is Coming up Fractions - John Bradford

Fraction Action - Loreen Leedy (fractions)

Fraction Fun - David Adler

Fractions are Parts of Things - J. Richard Dennis

Fractions Jugglers - Ruth Alexander Bell (fractions up to 12 so easier to understand)

Full House: An Invitation to Fractions - Dayle Ann Dodds - doubling and fractions

Give Me Half - Stuart Murphy (fractions)

Grandfather Tang's Story - Ann Tompert (fractions, tangrams, geometry)

Grizzly Gazette - Stuart Murphy (fractions)

Jump, Kangaroo, Jump - Stuart Murphy (fractions)

My Half Day – Doris Fisher

One Hungry Cat - Joann Rocklin (division, fractions)

Piece = Part = Portion - Scott Gifford (fractions, decimals, percents)

Pizza Math:  How Do Octopi Eat Pizza Pie (I Love Math) - Time Life Books  (fractions)

Polar Bear Math - Ann Whitehead Nagda (fractions)

Working With Fractions - David A. Adler -  fractions through pictures

Zoo Fair Shares - Patricia Whitehouse (portions, younger kids)

Zoo Math:  Case of the Missing Zebra Stripes (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

  

Number Families

Number Families - Jane Srivastava (number series)

Roman Numerals - David A. Adler

Thirteen - Remy Charlip

This is 4: The Idea of a Number - Arthur Razzell

What's a Pair?  What's a Dozen? - Stephen R. Swinburne

Negative Numbers

Less than Nothing is Really Something - Robert Froman

Less Than Zero - Stuart Murphy ($, graphing, negative numbers)

Large Numbers, Exponents, Infinity

512 Ants on Sullivan Street - Carol A. Losi (doubling exponentially)

Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar - Masaichiro Anno (size, perspective, counting, nesting, factorials)

Arm in Arm - Remy Charlip (paradox, infinite loops)

Is the Blue Whale the Biggest Thing Ever? - Robert Wells (why we have lg. numbers)

Hooray for Me - Remy Charlip (relationship, nesting)

How Much is a Million? - Frank Schwartz

Infinity, What Is It? - Marnie Luce

King's Chessboard - David Birch (doubling exponentially)

Math Curse - Jon Scieszka

Millions of Cats - Wanda Gag

On Beyond a Million - David Schwartz (lg. numbers, exponents)

One Grain of Rice - Demi (doubling exponentially)

Probability/Graphing
A Very Improbably Story - Edward  Einhorn (probability)

Anno's Magic Seeds - Masaichiro Anno

Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar - Masaichiro Anno

Best Vacation Ever - Stuart Murphy (collecting data)

Do You Wanna Bet? - Jean Cushman

Fractals, Googols and Other Mathematical Tales - Theoni Pappas

Graph Games - Frederique and Papy

Great Graph Contest - Loreen Leedy (graphs)

Lemonade for Sale - Stuart Murphy (bar graphs)

Less Than Zero - Stuart Murphy (graphing, negative numbers)

Number Devil - Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Odds & Chances for Kids -Manfred Riedel (probability, history, stories. Much is in storytelling form)

Pigs at Odds - Amy Axelrod

Pigs on the Ball - Amy Axelrod

Probably Penny - Loreen Leedy (probability)

Probably Pistachio - Stuart Murphy (probability)

Same Old Horse - Stuart Murphy (predictions)

Socrates and the Three Little Pigs - Tuyosi Mori

Sundae Scoop - Stuart Murphy (combinations)

Tiger Math - Ann Whitehead Nagda (graphing)

Geometry

3D, 2D, 1D - David Adler

A Cloak for the Dreamer - Aileen Friedman

Ancient Mystery of Tangrams - Quarto Children's Books

Angles are Easy as Pie - Robert Froman

Area - Jane Jonas Srivastava

Bigger, Better, Best - Stuart Murphy (area)

Boy With Square Eyes - Juliet Snape

Captain Invincible and the Space Ships - Stuart Murphy (3d shapes)

Circles - Mindel and Harry Sitomer

Circles and Curves - Arthur Razell

Eight Hands Round - Ann Whitford Paul (quilt design)

Ellipse - Mannis Charosh

Goat in the Rug - Charles Blood (Navajo weaving story)

Grandfather Tang's Story - Ann Tompert

Greedy Triangle - Marilyn Burns

Hamster Champs - Stuart Murphy (angles)

Harlequin - Remy Charlip

House for Birdie - Stuart Murphy (understanding capacity)

In Shadowland - Masaichiro Anno

Let's Fly a Kite - Stuart Murphy (symmetry)

Lines, Segments, Polygon - Mindel

Mighty Maddie - Stuart Murphy (comparing weights)

Mother, Mother, I Feel Sick... - Remy Charlip

Mummy Math: An Adventure in Geometry - Cindy Neuschwander

My Full Moon is Square - Elinor Pinczes (intro to square numbers)

Opt, An Illusionary Tale - Arline Baum (geometry, proportions, measurement)

Paper Crane - Molly Bang (origami)

Paper John - David Small (origami)

Patchwork Quilt - Valerie Flournoy

Quilt Counting - Lesa Cline-Ransome

Racing Around - Stuart Murphy (perimeter)

Reflections - Ann Jonas (symmetry, perspective)

Rubber Bands, Baseballs and Doughnuts: A Book about Topology - Robert Froman

Shadow Geometry - Daphne Harwood Trivett

Shape of Things - Dayle Ann Dodds

Shape Up: Fun with Triangles and Other Polygons - David Adler

Silly Story of Goldilocks and the Three Squares - Grace Maccarone

Sir Cumference and the Dragon of Pi - Cindy Neuschwander

Sir Cumference and the First Round Table -  Cindy Newschwander (geometry shapes)

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland - Cindy Neuschwander

Sir Cumference and the Isle of Immeter -  Cindy Neuschwander

Sir Cumference and the Sword in the Cone - Cindy Neuschwander

Spaghetti and Meatballs for All - Marilyn Burns (area, perimeter, division)

Spider Weaver - Margaret Musgrove

Squarehead - Harriet Ziefert

Straight Lines, Parallel Lines, Perpendicular Lines - Mannis Charosh

Super Sand Castle Saturday - Stuart Murphy (measuring)

Three Pigs, One Wolf and Seven Magic Shapes - Grace MacCarone

Triangle, Square, Circle - William Wegman

Village of Round and Square Houses - Ann Grifalconi

What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras? – Julie Ellis

What Is It? Spin -about book - Beau Gardner

What is Symmetry? - Mindel and Harry Sitomer

When  a Line Bends...a Shape Begins - Rhonda Gowler Greene

Wing on a Flea - Ed Emberley

Who Took the Farmer's Hat? - Joan Nodset

  

Logic/Relationships/Problem Solving

Anno's Hat Tricks - Masaichiro Anno

Case of the Backyard Treasure - Joanne Rocklin

Case of the Missing Birthday Party - Joanne Rocklin

Galaxy Getaway (Math for Martians) - Julie Ferris, 2nd or 3rd grade (problem solving)

Hooray for Me! - Remy Charlip

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie - Laura Joffe Numeroff, other books from series as well

One Fine Day - Nonny Hogrogian

Only One - Marc Harshman

Planet Omnicrom (Math for Martians) - Julie Ferris (problem solving)

Shortcut - David Macaulay

Solomon Grundy, Born on Oneday: A Finite Arithmetic Puzzle - Malcolm E. Weiss

Terrible Tiger - Jack Prelutsky

That's Good, That's Bad - Joan Lexau

There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly - Simms Taback

Tic-Tac-Toe, Three in a Row - Judith Bauer Stamper

Tikki Tikki Tembo - Arlene Mosel

Why I Will Never Ever Ever Ever Have Enough Time to Finish This Book - Remy Charlip

Why the Chicken Crossed the Road - David Macaulay

Yes, No, Stop, Go - Judith Gersting

http://io.uwinnipeg.ca/~jameis/index.html (math stories and problem solving)

Algebra

666 Jellybeans! All That? An Introduction to Algebra - Malcolm E. Weiss

Ready, Set, Hop - Stuart Murphy (building equations)

Safari Park - Stuart Murphy (finding unknowns)

Other concepts/Multiple Concepts

Alice in Numberland (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Bug Dance - Stuart Murphy (directions)

Case of the Missing Zebra Stripes (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Dinosaur Deals - Stuart Murphy (equivalent values)

Fortunately - Remy Charlip (opposites, prediction)

From Head to Toe: Body Math (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Greatest Gymnast of All - Stuart Murphy (opposites)

House That Math Built: House Math (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Just Enough Carrots - Stuart Murphy (comparing quantities)

Look Both Ways, City Math (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Missing Math, A Number Mystery - Loreen Leedy (why we need numbers)

Mystery of the Sunken Treasure: Sea Math (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Pigs in the Corner - Amy Axelrod (directions)

Pterodactyl Tunnel: Amusement Park Math (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Right in Your Own Backyard: Nature Math (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Rosie's Walk - Pat Hutchins (spatial relationships)

Search For the Mystery Planet: Space Math (I Love Math) - Time Life Books

Seven Chinese Brothers - Margaret Mahy (cause/effect, relationship chain)

Some Things Go Together - Charlotte Zolotow (relationships, matching)

Statistics - Jane Srivastava (excellent intro to statistics for younger)

Venn Diagrams - Robert Froman

  

Videos

Math Monsters (Slim Goodbody) - www.mathmonsters.com has some free clips to watch

Schoolhouse Rock

Leap Frog Math Circus

Googol Power - www.googolpower.com has some free clips

Cyberchase

Mathtacular 1, 2 and 3

Upper Elementary

13 Clocks - James Thurber (logic, has other books as well)

A Barrel of Laughs, A Vale of Tears - Jules Feiffer (logic, has other books as well)

Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat - Theoni Pappas

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (logic)

Archimedes and the Door of Science - Jeanne Bendick (simple machines, etc)

Beanstalk: The Measure Of A Giant - Ann McCallum

Ben Franklin and the Magic Squares - Frank Murphy

Book of Think - Marilyn Burns (logic)

Boy Who Reversed Himself - William Sleator

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - Edwin A. Abbott

Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So - Ian Stewart

G is for Googol - David Schwartz

I Hate Mathematics Book - Marilyn Burns

How To Lie With Charts - Gerald Everett Jones

How To Lie With Statistics - Darrell Huff

Jack Tales - Richard Chase

Joy of Mathematics - Theoni Pappas

Life by the Numbers - Kevin Devlin

Man in the Ceiling - Jules Feiffer

Man Who Counted: A Collection of Mathematical Adventures - Malba Tahan

Mathematicians Are People, Too – Luetta and Wilbert Reimer

Mathematicians Are People, Too: Volume 2 – Luetta and Wilbert Reimer

Math Curse - Jon Scieszka

Math Trek - Ivars Peterson (logic games, etc)

Math Trek 2 - Ivars Peterson

Math Smart Junior - Marcia Lerner (upper elementary, covers both subjects)

More Stories to Solve - George Shannon

Murderous Maths series - Kjartan Poskitt (in the following order)

Murderous Maths - (basics plus some random things)

More Murderous Maths  (area, plus lots of random things)

Essential Arithmaticks - (addition, subtraction, division, multplication)

The Mean and Vulgar Bits (fractions and averages)

Desperate Measures: Length, Area, Volume

Do You Feel Lucky? (probability)

Vicious Circles and Other Savage Shapes (geometry)

Numbers: Keys to the Universe (facts about numbers, not so much a math how-to)

Phantom X (algebra)

Fiendish Angletron (trig, geometry, ratios)

Perfect Sausage and Other Fundamental Formulas (book of formulas w/explanations)

Number Devil - Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Phantom Tollbooth - Norton Juster

Planiverse - A.K. Dewdney

Power of UN - Nancy Etchemendy

Riddle-Iculous Math - Joan Holub

String, Straightedge and Shadow - Julia Diggins

Sylvie and Bruno - Lewis Carroll (logic)

Ten Things All Future Mathematicians and Scientists Must Know... -  Edward Zacarro

Whatever Happened to Penny Candy? - Richard J. Maybury (economics)