Literature Resources for Everyday Mathematics
            Recommended Second Grade Books by Lesson Number

Title Author Lesson  # Strand
A Day With No Math Kaye, Marilyn 1.1 Multiple
* Fish Eyes: A Book You Can Count On Ehlert, Lois 2.2 Counting
Two of Everything: A Chinese Folktale Hong, Lily Toy 2.3, 7.5 Numeration
Twelve Ways to Get Eleven Merriam, Eve 2.9 Addition
26 Letters and 99 Cents Hoban, Tana 3.2, 4.3, 10.1 Money
A Cloak for the Dreamer Friedman, Aileen 4.7, 7.6 Polygons
The Greedy Triangle Burns, Marilyn 5.3 Polygons
Grandfather Tang’s Story Tompert, Ann 5.6 Shapes
The Art of Shapes for Children and Adults Steele, Margaret; Cindy Estes 5.3, 5.7 Shapes
Lao Lao of Dragon Mountain Bateson-Hill, Margaret 5.9 Shapes
Shapes, Shapes, Shapes Hoban, Tana 5.3, 5.7 Shapes
Each Orange Had Eight Slices: A Counting Book Giganti, Jr., Paul 6.8, 11.3 Counting and Multiplication
Sea Squares Hulme, Joy N. 6.8, 11.3, 11.6 Multiplication
One Hundred Hungry Ants Pinczes, Elinor J. 6.9, 11.3 Mult/Div
A Remainder of One Pinczes, Elinor J. 6.11, 11.4 Mult/Div
Melisande Nesbit, E. 7.5 Multiples
The King’s Chessboard Birch, David 7.5 Multiples
One Grain of Rice: A Mathematical Folktale Demi 7.5 Multiples
*  Gator Pie Matthews, Louise 8.1 Fractions
*  Eating Fractions McMillan, Bruce 8.1 Fractions
*  Picture Pie: A Circle Drawing Book Emberley, Ed 8.1 Fractions
Only One Harshman, Marc 8.3 Fractions
*  How Big Is a Foot? Myller, Rolf 9.1 Measurement
Counting on Frank Clement, Rod 9.1 Measurement
Twelve Snails to One Lizard: A Tale of Mischief and Measurement Hightower, Susan 9.2 Measurement
Pigs in the Pantry: Fun with Math and Cooking Axelrod, Amy 9.9 Measurement
Pigs Will Be Pigs: Fun with Math and Money Axelrod, Amy 10.6 Money
Alexander Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday Viorst, Judith 10.6 Money

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