Math Games & Activities

These are fun math books (yes, "fun" and "math" can coexist within the same sentence). One of the most attractive elements of most of them is that they aren't curricula or self-consciously "educational." Don't get us wrong—your kids will learn plenty from these books, but there's a good chance they won't even realize they're learning as they read. Sometimes it's easy to assume we don't like a subject when we don't really understand it or know anything about it; before you decide you hate math forever, we recommend you check out some of these titles.

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C. Hollis Crossman used to be a child. Now he is a husband and father, teaches adult Sunday school in his Presbyterian congregation, and likes weird stuff. He might be a mythical creature, but he's definitely not a centaur.Read more of his reviews here.

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Book of Perfectly Perilous Math
by Sean Connolly
from Workman Publishing
for 4th-10th grade
in Math Games & Activities (Location: MATR-GAM)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Each Orange Has 8 Slices
by Paul Giganti, Jr.
1st edition from Greenwillow Books
for Grades 1st-4th
in Math Picture Books (Location: MATR-PIC)
How Do Octopi Eat Pizza Pie?
from Time-Life Books
for 3rd-5th grade
in Math Games & Activities (Location: MATR-GAM)
$3.00 (1 in stock)
M&M's Counting Book
by Barbara Barbieri McGrath
from Charlesbridge
for Preschool-Kindergarten
in Math Picture Books (Location: MATR-PIC)
$5.00 (1 in stock)
Magic House of Numbers
by Irving Adler
from The John Day Company
for 6th-10th grade
in Math Games & Activities (Location: MATR-GAM)
Math Curse
by Jon Scieszka
1st edition from Viking Press
for Grades 1st-3rd
in Math Picture Books (Location: MATR-PIC)
$8.00 (1 in stock)
Mathematical Carnival
by Martin Gardner
from Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.
for 9th-Adult
in Math Games & Activities (Location: MATR-GAM)
$6.00 (1 in stock)
Multiplying Menace Divides
by Pam Calvert
1st edition from Charlesbridge
for 2nd-4th grade
in Math Picture Books (Location: MATR-PIC)
$7.00 (1 in stock)
Pythagoras and the Ratios
by Julie Ellis, illustrated by Phyllis Hornung Peacock
from Charlesbridge
for Grades 3rd-5th
in Math Picture Books (Location: MATR-PIC)
$9.00 (1 in stock)
World of Wonders
by Eileen Doolittle
from Houghton Mifflin
for Grades 1st-3rd
in Clearance: Math (Location: ZCLE-MAT)
$3.00 (1 in stock)