Jack and David Coffland collaborate on two books: Basketball Math and Football Math (GoodYear Books, $9.95; grades 4-8) filled with activities and projects for slam-dunk, touchdown fun..
Pair eating and math with Sue Mogard and Ginny McDonnell's Gobble Up Math (Learning Works, $9.95; grades K-3) which is filled with yummy ideas that are easily reproducible by teachers!
Arthur Geisert brings his humorous pigs in to teach Roman Numerals I to MM (Houghton Mifflin, $15.95; grades 3-5). The near-wordless book describes the representation system and then leaves lots of room for children to explore.
Lynette Long, Ph. D. gives hands-on fun in Domino Addition (Charlesbridge, $6.95; grades K-2). Graphics, facets of teaching addition, clarity, and built-in activities are all excellent..
Bruce McMillan brings his bright photojournalism to introducing basic units of money as he captures children operating a stand in Jelly Beans for Sale (Scholastic, $15.95; grades K-2)
HarperCollins MathStart series by Stuart Murphy gives three new books which unite fiction and math: Too Many Kangaroo Things To Do! (multiplication; grades 2-3); Get Up and Go! (time lines; grades 1-3); and A Pair of Socks (patterns; preschool-grade 1) (All books $14.95)
A rhythmic, cumulative story teaches subtraction in Ali Wakefield's Those Calculating Crows! (Simon and Schuster, $16.00; preschool- grade 2) A great read-aloud!
Miriam Schlein's More Than One (Greenwillow, $15.00; preschool- grade 1) teaches young children that numbers are not always what they appear to be. This wonderful link of language arts and math works even better because of illustrations by award-winning artist Donald Crews.
Fractions will make more sense with the help of David Adler's Fraction Fun (Holiday House, $15.95; grades K-3). Includes easy hands-on activities.
Klutz Press, children's favorite publisher, enters the world of math with Jerry Slocum's The Puzzle Arcade (Klutz Press, 19.95; grades 3-8) filled with scads of thought-provoking puzzles. Attached to the spiral binding is a plastic case filled with puzzles that children will want to get their hands on immediately!