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BEYOND FACTS AND FLASHCARDS: EXPLORING MATH WITH YOUR KIDS
by Jan Mokros
Games and activities help parents and caregivers develop their children's logic and reasoning.

MATH: FACING AN AMERICAN PHOBIA
by Marilyn Burns
This book explains how to encourage kids to discover math concepts on their own.

A FAMILY'S GUIDE: FOSTERING YOUR CHILD'S SUCCESS IN SCHOOL MATHEMATICS
edited by Amy J. Mirra
An explanation of today's math curricula with suggestions for how families can help children learn to like math.

For Parents and Kids

ANNO'S COUNTING BOOK
by Mitsumasa Anno
Count through the months of the year.

ANNO'S MYSTERIOUS MULTIPLYING JAR
by Mitsumasa Anno.
An imaginative, colorful book that reinforces counting skills.

CLOCKS AND MORE CLOCKS
by Pat Hutchins
Which of Mr. Higgins's four clocks keeps the correct time? The Clockmaker says they are all correct!

THE DOORBELL RANG
by Pat Hutchins
This story about sharing cookies among more and more children emphasizes simple division.

THE ELEVENTH HOUR
by Graeme Base
A good family math book with an exciting who-dunnit mystery.

FIVE LITTLE MONKEYS JUMPING ON THE BED
by Eileen Christelow.
One by one the little monkeys jump on the bed only to fall off and bump their heads.

GRANDFATHER TANG'S STORY
by Ann Tompert
Grandfather tells a story about shape-changing fairies.

HOW MUCH IS A MILLION?
by David Schwartz
Fun text and pictures make it possible to imagine a million, a billion, and a trillion.

THE KING'S COMMISSIONERS
by Aileen Friedman
The king learns some new ways of counting while trying to keep track of his royal officials.

MATH CURSE
by Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith
When Mrs. Fibonacci tells her class to think of almost anything as a math problem, one student is struck by 'the math curse', and starts thinking of everything as a math problem!

ONE HUNDRED HUNGRY ANTS
by Elinor J. Pinczes
One hundred hungry ants head towards a picnic changing their line formation to show different divisions of one hundred.

SO MANY CATS!
by Beatrice Schenk de Regniers
A family adopts lots of cats. First they started with one, then two came by that they couldn't resist, then there were three more....