Great resource for fun math books

Many of these books are available at the library! I encourage you to check out these math books that go along with the new Bridges Curriculum for math.

http://www.mathlearningcenter.org/resources/blog/category/childrens-literature

One of my favorite books is called The Best of Times. Here is a link to the book from Powells: http://www.powells.com/biblio/1-9780439210447-9.

The books teaches strategies for learning multiplication. Each strategy has a fun poem to help children understand and remember the strategy. Most of these strategies we use as part of the Bridges curriculum in the classroom.

Here is a sample strategy:

Four is very fast to do when you multiply by 2.
Here's a little good advice --
please just always double twice!

Enjoy the poems and the books.