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K - 2 Number Sense - Children's Literature

  • Amazing incredible counting stories!: a number of tall tales (ENC-006261) This picture book uses colorful illustrations and unlikely news events to demonstrate the concept of counting. Readers will read about the 11 telephone trees found growing in the woods or the 4 jelly faucets that proved to be a big time saver, as well as a host of other incredible, numerical news events.

  • The doorbell rang (ENC-009850) This illustrated children's book can be used to introduce the concept of fair division. The story begins with two children and a dozen cookies (six for each). The doorbell rings and two friends are welcomed in to share the cookies (three for each). The doorbell rings twice more, each time heralding more and more children and fewer and fewer cookies to go around.

  • Each orange had 8 slices: a counting book (ENC-009849) http://www.enc.org/resources/records/full/0,1240,009849,00.shtm This children's book introduces beginning multiplication concepts and fractions and provides the opportunity for counting practice. With each turn of the page, the reader encounters a colorful picture followed by questions. The first page, for example, shows three red flowers, each with six pretty petals and two black bugs on each petal. The reader is asked to find the number of flowers, then the number of petals, and finally the total number of bugs.

  • How the second grade got $8,205.50 to visit the Statue of Liberty (ENC-009702) This illustrated children's book details the trials and triumphs of a group of second graders attempting to raise money for a trip to the Statue of Liberty. Written in the style of a treasurer's report, this book addresses basic money concepts such as profit and expenses. The children in the story try unsuccessfully to raise money in many ways and then find success through an amazing coincidence.

  • Mission : Addition (ENC-011253) This picture book tells the story of Miss Prime and her class using mathematics to solve six mysteries requiring math skills ranging from counting and basic number facts to simple adding with two-digit numbers. Miss Prime and her class solve a mystery about missing chocolate chip cookies, find the winning bowling score, survey the class for the number and types of pets the students have, figure the profits from a garage sale, and find the mistakes on their bills at the Classy Cafe.

  • One hundred hungry ants (ENC-009847) This children's book uses marching verses and whimsical art to describe how a colony of one hundred ants marching towards a picnic were persuaded to divide into rows of two, four, five, and ten so that they could arrive more quickly than marching single file. Drawings illustrate the factors of 100 and the principles of division.

  • Ten beads tall (ENC-014374) This book, part of the BEAD FRAME BOOK series, is written to introduce young children 3 to 6 years to the mathematical concept of measurement. Children use ten cube beads to measure how tall, how wide, and how long the objects pictured on each page are. On the final page they are invited to use what they have learned about measuring to solve the problem of which vehicles can pass through the tunnel.

  • Ten, nine, eight (ENC-016340) This counting book describes and illustrates the numbers from ten to one as found in this lullaby story told to a young African American girl preparing to go to bed. Each two page spread offers a highlighted numeral with text that aims to sooth and a softly colored picture with objects to count. The first illustration shows the little girl sitting on a man's lap in a rocking chair. They count ten small toes all washed and warm, nine soft friends in a quiet room, three loving kisses on cheeks and nose, and finally one big girl all ready for bed.

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