Kindergarten Information

Kindergarten: Math Literature

Math Literature

NUMBER AND NUMERATION

Counting

• How Many Kisses Do You Want Tonight? by Varsha Bajaj
• Moja Means One: A Swahili Counting Book by Muriel Feelings
• Ten Terrible Dinosaurs by Paul Stickland

Big Numbers

• Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar by Mitsumasa Anno
• A Million Fish... More or Less by Patricia C. McKissak
• How Much Is a Million? by David M. Schwartz

100th Day

• Counting Our Way to the 100th Day by Betsy Franco
• 100th Day of Bug School by Lisa McCourt
• Miss Bindergarten Celebrates the 100th Day of Kindergarten by Joseph Slate

Other Numeration Books

• Spaghetti and Meatballs for All: A Mathematical Story by Marilyn Burns
• How the Stars Fell Into the Sky: A Navajo Legend by Jerrie Oughton
• The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear by Audrey and Don Wood

MEASUREMENT AND REFERENCE FRAMES

Measurement

• Who Sank the Boat? by Pam Adams
• Is It Larger? Is It Smaller? by Tana Hoban
• Inchworm and a Half by Elinor J. Pinczes

Clocks and Calendars

• The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle

• One Lighthouse, One Moon by Anita Lobel
• Cookie's Week by Cindy Ward

Money

• A Bargain for Frances by Russell Hoban

• Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
• A Chair for My Mother by Vera Williams

GEOMETRY

Shapes

• The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns
• Go Away, Big Green Monster! by Ed Emberley
• Icky Bug Shapes Book by Jerry Pallotta

Spatial Relationships

• Where Do I Live? by Neil Chesanow

• Rosie's Walk by Pat Hutchins
• Me on the Map by Joan Sweeney

PATTERNS, FUNCTIONS AND ALGEBRA

Sorting

• How Many Snails? by Paul Giganti, Jr.
• 3 Little Firefighters by Stuart J. Murphy
• The BUtton Box by Margarette S. Reid

Visual and Auditory Patterns

• Market Day: A Story Told with Folk Art by Lois Ehlert

• Changes, Changes by Pat Hutchins
• Selina and the Bear Paw Quilt by Barbara Smucker

Patterned Language

• Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? by Bill Martin, Jr. and Eric Carle

• I Went Walking by Sue Williams

DATA AND CHANCE

Data and Probability

• Wacky Wednesday by Theodore LeSieg

• Best Vacation Ever by Stuart J. Murphy
• And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street by Dr. Seuss

OPERATIONS AND COMPUTATIONS

Operations

• This Old Man by Pam Adams

• Domino Addition by Lynette Long
• A Remainder of One by Elinor J. Pinczes

OTHER BOOKS REFERENCED IN KINDERGARTEN

• The Jolly Postman by Janet and Allen Ahlberg
• The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
• Bread, Bread, Bread by Ann Morris