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Math Literature Bibliographies
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Grade 6 Bibliography
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Chapter 1:
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Add and Subtract Decimals
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| | Big Numbers by Edward
Packard (Millbrook Press,
2000) |
| | Make Four Million Dollar
by Next Thursday by Stephen
Manes (Doubleday, 1997) |
| | The King’s
Commissioners by Aileen
Friedman (Scholastic, 1995) |
| | BasketballMath by Jack
Coffland (Addison Wesley,
1995) |
| | Homer Price by Robert
McCloskey (Penguin Putnam,
1972) |
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Chapter 2:
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Multiply and Divide Decimals
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| | "Guitar" by David St. John
from The Invisible Ladder
(Liz Rosenberg, editor, Henry
Holt, 1996) |
| | One Grain of Rice by
Demi (Scholastic, 1997) |
| | My Life Among the
Aliens by Gail Gauthier
(Putnam, 1998) |
| | The Crystal Drop by
Monica Hughes (Simon and
Schuster, 1993) |
| | A Grain of Rice by
Helena Pittman (Skylark,
1996) |
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Chapter 3:
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Data, Statistics, and Graphs
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| | Summer Wheels by Eve
Bunting (Harcourt, 1996) |
| | Pedal Power: How a
Mountain Bike is Made by
David Hautzig (Dutton, 1996) |
| | Biggest, Strongest,
Fastest by Steven Jenkins
(Holt, 1997) |
| | A Cache of Jewels by
Ruth Heller (Grosset &
Dunlap, 1987) |
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Chapter 4:
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Number Theory and Fraction Concepts
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| | The Adventures of Penrose,
the Mathematical Cat by
Theoni Pappas (Tetra, 1997) |
| | Socrates and the Three
Little Pigs by Mitsumasa Anno
(Philmel Books, 1986) |
| | Fractions by David
Stienecker (Marshall Cavendish,
1995) |
| | High Rise Glorious Skittle
Skat Roarious Sky Pie Angel Food
Cake by Nancy Willard
(Harcourt, 1996) |
| | Number Families by
Jane Jonas Srivastava (Thomas Y.
Crowell, 1979) |
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Chapter 5:
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Add and Subtract Fractions
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| | The Phantom Tollbooth
by Norton Juster (Alfred A.
Knopf, 1971) |
| | Math Curse by Jon
Scieszka (Viking, 1995) |
| | Let’s Investigate
Estimating by Marion Smoothy
(Marshall Cavendish, 1994) |
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Chapter 6:
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Multiply and Divide Fractions
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| | Stories to Solve by
George Shannon (HarperCollins,
2000) |
| | The I Hate Mathematics!
Book by Marilyn Burns
(Little, Brown, and Company,
1975) |
| | Sideways Arithmetic from
Wayside School by Louis
Sachar (Scholastic, 1989) |
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Chapter 7:
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Measurement
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| | The Rajah’s Rice
by David Barry (W.H. Freeman and
Co., 1994) |
| | Pedro’s Journal
by Pamela Conrad (Scholastic,
1992) |
| | Measuring Penny by
Lauren Leedy (Holt, 1998) |
| | Esio Trot by Roald
Dahl (Puffin, 1999) |
| | How Do You Lift a
Lion? By Robert E. Wells
(Albert Whitman, 1996) |
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Chapter 8:
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Functions and Equations
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| | Tiger Math by Ann
Nagda (Holt, 2000) |
| | Graphing Matter by
Mark Illingworth (Key Curriculum
Press, 1995) |
| | Just a Dream by Chris
Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin,
1990) |
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Chapter 9:
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Integers and Rational Numbers
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| | Less Than Nothing is
Really Something by Robert
Froman (Thomas Y. Crowell,
1974) |
| | Accentuate the
Negative by Jane T. Fey (Dale
Seymour, 1997) |
| | The Beanstalk and
Beyond by Joan M. Wolf
(Libraries Unlimited, 1997) |
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Chapter 10:
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Geometry
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| | The Little Village of
Round and Square Houses by
Ann Grifalconi (Little, Brown,
and Company, 1986) |
| | Sir Cumference and the
First Round Table by Cindy
Neuschwander (Charlesbridge
Publishing, 1998) |
| | Flat Stanley by Jeff
Brown (Harper Trophy, 1996) |
| | Easy Origami by John
Montroll (Dover, 1992) |
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Chapter 11:
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Perimeter, Area, and Volume
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| | Eight Hands Round by
Ann Whitford Paul (HarperCollins,
1996) |
| | Spaghetti and Meatballs
for All by Marilyn Burns
(Scholastic, 1997) |
| | Sir Cumference and the
Dragon of Pi by Wayne Geeham
(Charlesbridge Publishing,
1999) |
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Chapter 12:
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Ratio and Proportion
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| | Gulliver’s Adventure
in Lilliput by Jonathan Swift
(1726) |
| | Just a Dream by Chris
Van Allsburg (Houghton Mifflin,
1990) |
| | The Purse by Kathy
Caple (Sandpiper, 1992) |
| | Zero is Nothing by
Harry Sitomer (Crowell,
1978) |
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Chapter 13:
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Percents
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| | Math Mini-Mysteries by
Sandra Marle (Simon and Schuster,
1993) |
| | Name the Portion by
Joan Akers (Dale Seymour,
1996) |
| | Percents and Ratios by
Lucille Caron (Enslow Publishers,
2000) |
| | Venn Diagrams by
Robert Froman (Thomas Y. Crowell,
1972) |
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Chapter 14:
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Probability
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| | Probability Pistachio
by Stuart Murphy (Harper Collins
2000) |
| | Chance Encounters by
Don Tobin (Heinemann, 1995) |
| | Do You Wanna Bet? by
Jean Cushman (Houghton Mifflin,
1991) |
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