Family Guides to Exploring Math with Children
Math Renaissance (for parents and teachers of students ages 6 and up)
The authors share their insights on how math experience might be improved at home, school, and math circle. It is based upon Rodi Steinig’s experiences teaching math and leading math circles, and daughter Rachel Steinig’s experiences as a school student and homeschooler.
Playing with Math (parents and teachers of students ages 8 to adult)
The book brings together the stories of over thirty authors who share their math enthusiasm with their communities, families, or students. After every chapter is a puzzle, game, or activity to get you and your kids playing with math too.
Avoid Hard Work! …And Other Encouraging Problem-Solving Tips for the Young, the Very Young, and the Young at Heart (parents and teachers of students ages 3 to 10)
A playful view on ten powerful problem-solving techniques. We adapted them and sample problems for young children.
Children’s Math Books
Bright, Brave, Open Minds (ages 5-10)
I will share with you what I have learned as I tinkered with teaching problem solving to curious young children, ages six to eight. The purpose of this book is to invite you to experiment with your own children or students, without any preconceived notions of how the outcome will look. Instead, allow your personal taste and the children’s feedback to guide you.
Socks are Like Pants, Cats are Like Dogs (ages 3-8)
Do you want your children to feel like algebra is beautiful, playful, and intuitive? Come play, solve, talk, and make math with us!
Moebius Noodles (from ages under 3 to 5)
Help your toddler discover deep math in everyday experiences. Play games that will develop your child’s sense of happy familiarity with mathematics.
Funville Adventures (ages 5 and up)
Funville is a math-inspired fantasy adventure for children ages 5 and up, where functions come to life as magical beings. After 9-year old Emmy and her 5-year old brother Leo go down an abandoned dilapidated slide, they are magically transported into Funville: a land inhabited by ordinary looking beings, each with a unique power to transform objects.
Camp Logic (ages 8-adult)
This book offers a deeper insight into what mathematics is, tapping every child’s intuitive ideas of logic and natural enjoyment of games. Simple-looking games and puzzles quickly lead to deeper insights.
Life on the Infinite Farm (ages 5 and up)
Teaches about infinity and curved space through stories of whimsical farm animals. Join Gracie, the shoe-loving cow with infinitely many feet, Hammerwood, the gum-loving crocodile with an endless mouth, and their friends as they navigate the challenges that come with being infinitely large.
You Can Count on Monsters (all ages)
This volume visually explores the concepts of factoring and the role of prime and composite numbers. The playful and colorful monsters are designed to give children (and even older audiences) an intuitive understanding of the building blocks of numbers and the basics of multiplication.
Really Big Numbers (ages 6 and up)
-See the cool video about the book at the link!
-Winner of the 2015 MSRI Mathical Books for Kids from Tots to Teens Award!
-Starting with small, easily observable numbers and building up gradually to the dizzyingly huge ones towards infinity itself, the author takes readers on a fascinating journey of discovery.
A Mathematical Gallery (ages 13 and up)
Embark on a playful mathematical tour, aided by Lisl Gaal’s illustrations of familiar scenes and whimsical triggers for the imagination. Along the way, find fruit stands arranged using polynomial multiplication, checkerboard tablecloths sewed with patterns of primes in a two-dimensional number system, and deceptive cats revealing that simple counting is not always so simple.