Mathematics Padlet by Kerry Gittins

The Boy Who Loved Math

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 01:22:25 UTC

Most people think of mathematicians as solitary, working away in isolation. And, it's true, many of them do. But Paul Erdos never followed the usual path. At the age of four, he could ask you when you were born and then calculate the number of seconds you had been alive in his head. But he didn't learn to butter his own bread until he turned twenty. Instead, he traveled around the world, from one mathematician to the next, collaborating on an astonishing number of publications.

The Girl With A Mind For Math

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 01:23:51 UTC

After touring a German submarine in the early 1940s, young Raye set her sights on becoming an engineer. Little did she know sexism and racial inequality would challenge that dream every step of the way, even keeping her greatest career accomplishment a secret for decades. Through it all, the gifted mathematician persisted―finally gaining her well-deserved title in history: a pioneer who changed the course of ship design forever.

Counting on Katherine

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 01:26:29 UTC

The bold story of Katherine Johnson, an African-American mathematician who worked for NASA during the space race and was depicted in the film Hidden Figures.

You've likely heard of the historic Apollo 13 moon landing.

Nothing Stopped Sophie

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 01:31:07 UTC

When her parents took away her candles to keep their young daughter from studying math...nothing stopped Sophie. When a professor discovered that the homework sent to him under a male pen name came from a woman...nothing stopped Sophie. And when she tackled a math problem that male scholars said would be impossible to solve...still, nothing stopped Sophie. She eventually became the first woman to win a grand prize from France's prestigious Academy of Sciences for her formula, which laid the groundwork for much of modern architecture.

Hidden Figures

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 01:32:47 UTC

Dorothy Vaughan, Mary Jackson, Katherine Johnson, and Christine Darden were good at math…really good.

They participated in some of NASA's greatest successes, like providing the calculations for America's first journeys into space. And they did so during a time when being black and a woman limited what they could do. But they worked hard. They persisted. And they used their genius minds to change the world.

Mummy Math

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 01:57:15 UTC

Matt, Bibi, and their dog Riley crawled through the tiny opening first. FWUMP! A secret door suddenly closed behind them . . .
The Zills family is summoned to Egypt to help find the hidden burial chamber of an ancient pharaoh. But when Matt and Bibi get trapped in the pharaoh's pyramid, they stumble upon an even bigger mystery. With only each other, their dog Riley, and the geometric hieroglyphics on the walls to help them, the twins must use their math skills to locate the burial chamber―and the way out. Luckily, Matt and Bibi know their stuff when it comes to geometric solids, and so will the readers of this adventure in math!

Pebbles and the Biggest Number: A STEM Adventure for Kids - Ages 4-8

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:00:28 UTC

Even the youngest children know big numbers: a thousand, a million, even a billion! But what comes next? A curious butterfly named Pebbles wants to know, too.
Follow Pebbles' globetrotting adventure and meet animal friends in exotic landscapes. From idyllic butterfly fields to scorching deserts, vast oceans, and the splendors of space, Pebbles is always eager to explore. This fact-filled science book for kids is overflowing with vibrant illustrations that pull the story forward.

Silly Birds

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:05:42 UTC

Silly Birds combines richly textured and striking illustrations of Australian animals with the gentle humor of an Aussie truism this it is hard to soar like an eagle when you are, in fact, surrounded by turkeys.

Kookoo Kooburra

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:07:04 UTC

Refusing to listen to the sage advice of his uncle, Kookoo finds himself alone and ignored by his friends. When he listens to the sound of his own laughter, it is an unhappy sound. Finally he remembers his uncle's words "Kindness is like a boomerang - if you throw it often, it comes back often..."

Mad Magpie

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:08:38 UTC

Inspired by wise sayings and the knowledge of his Elders, Mad Magpie tells the story of Guluu, an angry magpie who is being teased by a gang of butcher birds. The more he is teased, the angrier he becomes. When Guluu seeks advice, his Elders tell him to stay calm like the river, ignore the butcher birds and to be strong on the inside. Guluu tries this, but the cheeky birds just laugh at him. One day, when Guluu is at the river looking for worms, the butcher birds arrive and steal his food. He remembers the words of his Elders and he tries again – and this time Guluu has a different outcome.

The Imagineer

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:14:56 UTC

In her minuscule apartment, she draws up plans, then gathers her tools, turning sketches and scribbles into rocket ships and submarines.

But Penny likes to build so much that she’s running out of space...and things to build with.

Then Penny visits Grandpa and discovers a whole new world of strange things to create with, and one very important problem to solve...

Counting on Frank

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:17:08 UTC

Readers follow along as Frank, an irresistible canine, and his imaginative owner create all sorts of counting, measuring, and calculating challenges for themselves.

Rosie Revere Engineer

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:19:32 UTC

Rosie Revere dreams of becoming a great engineer. Where some people see rubbish, Rosie sees inspiration. Alone in her room at night, shy Rosie constructs great inventions from odds and ends. Hot dog dispensers, helium pants, python-repelling cheese hats: Rosie’s gizmos would astound—if she ever let anyone see them. Afraid of failure, she hides them away under her bed. Until a fateful visit from her great-great-aunt Rose (aka Rosie the Riveter!), who shows her that the first flop isn’t something to fear—it’s something to celebrate. And you can only truly fail if you quit.

Iggy Peck Architect

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:23:11 UTC

Meet Iggy Peck—creative, independent, and not afraid to express himself! Iggy has one passion: building. His parents are proud of his fabulous creations, though they're sometimes surprised by his materials—who could forget the tower he built of dirty diapers? When his second-grade teacher declares her dislike of architecture, Iggy faces a challenge. He loves building too much to give it up!

Ada Twist Scientist

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:26:33 UTC

Ada is an inquisitive second grader who was born to be a scientist. She possesses an unusual desire to question everything she encounters: a tick-tocking clock, a pointy-stemmed rose, the hairs in her dad’s nose, and so much more. Ada’s parents and her teacher, Miss Greer, have their hands full as the Ada’s science experiments wreak day-to-day havoc.

Math Curse

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:29:59 UTC

Did you ever wake up to one of those days where everything is a problem? You have 10 things to do, but only 30 minutes until your bus leaves. Is there enough time? You have 3 shirts and 2 pairs of pants. Can you make 1 good outfit? Then you start to wonder: Why does everything have to be such a problem? Why do 2 apples always have to be added to 5 oranges? Why do 4 kids always have to divide 12 marbles? Why can't you just keep 10 cookies without someone taking 3 away? Why? Because you're the victim of a Math Curse. That's why. But don't despair. This is one girl's story of how that curse can be broken.

Grandpa Green

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:33:21 UTC

Grandpa Green's great-grandson travels through a garden he created. In the garden, he discovers Grandpa Green's lost memories, including living on a farm, having chickenpox, going to war, getting married, and starting a family.

How The Sun Got To Coco's House

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:36:01 UTC

While Coco sleeps far away, the sun creeps over a hill and skids across the water, touching a fisherman’s cap. It heads out over frozen forests, making shadows in a child’s footprints, and balances on an airplane’s wing for a little boy to see. The sun crosses cities and countrysides, wakes furry creatures, makes a desert rainbow, and barges into Coco’s room to follow her through a day of play.

Triangle

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:39:23 UTC

Meet Triangle. He is going to play a sneaky trick on his friend, Square. Or so Triangle thinks. . . . With this first tale in a new trilogy, partners in crime Mac Barnett and Jon Klassen will have readers wondering just who they can trust in a richly imagined world of shapes.

Circle

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:40:21 UTC

This book is about Circle. This book is also about Circle’s friends, Triangle and Square. Also it is about a rule that Circle makes, and how she has to rescue Triangle when he breaks that rule.

Square

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:41:49 UTC

This book is about Square. Square spends every day taking blocks from a pile below the ground to a pile above the ground. This book is also about Square’s friend Circle. Circle thinks Square is an artistic genius. But is he really?

Uno's Garden

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:44:40 UTC

When Uno arrives in the forest one beautiful day, there are many fascinating and extraordinary animals there to greet him—and one entirely unexceptional Snortlepig. Uno loves the forest so much, he decides to live there. But, in time, a little village grows up around his house. Then a town, then a city . . . and soon Uno realizes that the animals and plants have begun to disappear.

Eye To Eye

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:47:18 UTC

A child, brave and curious about the world, flies high over the mountains, goes out on a limb, and dives into the deep. From here, he can see eye to eye with majestic and curious creatures, from the miniature to the enormous, the everyday to the fantastic.

The Waterhole

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:50:46 UTC

Children will love counting from one to 10 as animals of the world gather around a water hole. As one rhino gives way to two tigers, then three toucans, on up to 10 kangaroos, die-cut pages reveal the water hole in 10 different worldwide habitats, from African plains to Himalayan mountains to the Australian outback.
But the water hole keeps shrinking, and with it the number of frolicking frogs. Can anything bring back the water that the animals all need to survive?

Eye To Eye

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:55:18 UTC

In his eye-popping work of picture book nonfiction, Jenkins explains how for most animals, eyes are the most important source of information about the world in a biological sense.

The simplest eyes—clusters of light-sensitive cells—appeared more than one billion years ago, and provided a big survival advantage to the first creatures that had them. Since then, animals have evolved an amazing variety of eyes, along with often surprising ways to use them.

Actual Size

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:57:12 UTC

How big is a crocodile? What about a tiger, or the world’s largest spider? Can you imagine a tongue that is two feet long or an eye that’s bigger than your head?

Sometimes facts and figures don’t tell the whole story. Sometimes you need to see things for yourself—at their actual size.

Let's Count Goats

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-20 02:59:44 UTC

I can see the airport goats and I can see their cases.
But can you count the pilot goats with goggles on their faces?
This hilarious count-to-ten book features goats of all shapes, sizes, hobbies, and professions—and each spread gives readers a delightful opportunity to count the funny four-legged creatures.

How Big Is A Million?

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-23 23:34:20 UTC

Pipkin the penguin sets out to discover how many things are in a million, with the help of his mother and a playful seal cub.

Infinity and Me

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-23 23:35:59 UTC

Uma can't help feeling small when she peers up at the night sky. She begins to wonder about infinity. Is infinity a number that grows forever? Is it an endless racetrack? Could infinity be in an ice cream cone? Uma soon finds that the ways to think about this big idea may just be . . . infinite.

The Math Inspectors Bk 1: The Case of the Claymore Diamond

thebooktree21 — 2024-02-23 23:39:38 UTC

Stanley, Charlotte, Gertie and Felix are just your typical twelve-year old kids. They love to hangout after school, they love burgers and milkshakes, and they love math.

Wait. What?

And if there's one thing they love even more than math, it's solving mysteries. Thankfully, their hometown of Ravensburg, New York has plenty of mystery. And quite a few secrets. Like Sherlock Holmes but with fractions!

Mr Archimedes' Bath

thebooktree21 — 2024-09-03 00:14:14 UTC

Mr Archimedes' bath always overflows and he always has to clear up the mess, until the day he decides to find out where the water comes from and if Wombat, Goat or Kangaroo are responsible.

A Place for Zero

thebooktree21 — 2024-09-03 00:16:16 UTC

Join Zero on his math adventure as he discovers his place through multiplication. Zero is lonely in Digitaria. He can't play Addemup with the other numbers because he has nothing to add. All the other numbers seem to belong and they all have a place, but when zero discovers multiplication he thinks he might have a place there. He sets out to find King Multiplus who also is curious about what will happen when Zero gets thrown in the mix. With math and wordplay A Place for Zero is the perfect introduction to multiplication and number placement. A playful way to make math less intimidating and more fun to explore.

One Big Pair of Underwear

thebooktree21 — 2024-09-03 00:18:38 UTC

What’s one thing that two bears, three yaks, four goats, and six cats have in common?
They hate to share.
But look out—here comes a pack of twenty pigs ready to prove that sharing makes everything twice as fun!

How Many Legs

thebooktree21 — 2024-09-03 00:20:09 UTC

How many legs would there be if a polar bear came for tea? How high would the leg count go if a squid rode in on a buffalo? As more and more animals join in the fun, count along if you can!

A Remainder of One

thebooktree21 — 2024-09-03 00:22:06 UTC

Hup, two, three, four! We're in the 25th Army Corps. Queen's count! Two, three! We are the marching infantry! Poor Joe! He wants to march in the parade, but every time the lines are uneven, he must stand aside. What's a poor bug to do? Joe is determined. He studies the problem, relining the twenty-five bugs in his squadron from two lines to three lines to four lines, until inspiration and fortitude result in five lines of five -- and Joe fits in the last.

Engaging With Mathematics Through Picture Books

thebooktree21 — 2024-09-03 00:24:50 UTC

Engaging with Maths through Picture Books is a springboard for educators to develop exciting literature-based mathematics lessons.

Twenty books are featured in this early maths teaching resource with accompanying lesson plans. The ideas can be used as they are, adapted to the learners' needs and/or applied to different books.

The maths early years activities presented are designed to build sound foundations for children's future enjoyment and success with maths. Children think mathematically through creative experiences - creating their own math pictures or undertaking a shape hunt!

This is not your average mathematics book. For educators, it is a form of professional learning. For children, it is a fun entry into maths and numeracy skills.

365 Penguins

thebooktree21 — 2024-09-03 00:26:34 UTC

The penguins are back, in a new format and with a fresh new cover. The family in 365 penguins finds a penguin mysteriously delivered to their door every day for a year. At first they’re cute, but with every passing day, the penguins pile up along with the family’s problems. Feeding, cleaning, and housing the penguins becomes a monumental task. They’re noisy and smelly, and they always hog the bathroom! And who on earth is sending these kwak-ing critters. Bright, striking illustrations with lots of opportunity for counting (and lots of laughs)

Charlie Weatherburn and the Flying Machine

thebooktree21 — 2024-09-03 00:29:38 UTC

Meet Charlie Weatherburn: mathematician, dreamer ... airborne super hero?
A loveable, bumbling mathematician uses his extraordinary mathematics skills to achieve the unthinkable: solo flight.

If The World Were 100 People

thebooktree21 — 2024-09-03 00:32:33 UTC

There are more than 8 billion humans living on Earth, but it's tricky to picture so many people! So instead, let's imagine the whole planet is a village where 100 people live – each person representing around 80 million people in the real world.
So what does our global village of 100 people look like? Are they all grown-ups? Are there more males or females? How many have black hair or blue eyes? What languages do they speak? Who can read and write? How many have access to the internet or have enough food to eat? Does everyone have access to electricity or clean water?

If The World Were 100 Animals

thebooktree21 — 2024-09-03 00:34:29 UTC

There are estimated to be around 20 quintillion animals living on Earth, but it's tricky to picture so many animals! So instead, let's imagine just 100 animals at a time . . .
What does it look like? How are animals divided up? How many species are still to be discovered? Where in the world can wild mammals be found? And how 'wild' are they really? What are the most popular pets? How many species are extinct and how many are in danger?
If there had only ever been 100 animals, then 10 are living and 90 are extinct!

Maths Is Scary!

thebooktree21 — 2024-09-03 00:36:25 UTC

Maths can be scary!

Not scary like monsters in the dark scary. Not exactly. But it can give you sweaty palms and make you feel anxious, confused and worried.
Maths anxiety can have a real impact on learning, but this book can help!
Discover you're not alone, and pick up some useful tips to help you feel better about maths, in this entertaining picture book created by teachers.