Books mentioned
Literacy Strategies for Improving Mathematics Instruction. Joan Kenney et. al., ASCD, 2006.
978-1416602309
Mathematics as a Second Language Glossary, COMAP, 2004. http://216.250.163.249//product/?idx=701
The Doorbell Rang, Pat Hutchins, Greenwillow Books, 1989. 978-0688092344. Factors of twelve.
A Remainder of One, Elinor Pinczes, HMH Books for Young Readers, 2002. 978-
0618250776. Division with remainders.
What’s Your Angle, Pythagoras? Julie Ellis, Charlesbridge, 2004. 978-1570911507.
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth, Kathryn Lasky, Houghton Mifflin, 2000. 978-
0618062829. Eratosthenes.
The Number Devil, Hans Enzensberger, Holt McDougal, 2010. 978-0805062991.
Elementary number theory.
Math Trek: Adventures in the Math Zone, Ivars Peterson, Holt McDougal, 1999. 978-
0471315704. Multiplication, knots, binary, fractals, chaos theory and more.
The Man Who Counted, by Malba Tahan, W.W. Norton& Co., 1993. 978-0393309348.
Mathematical puzzles embedded in stories.
The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster, Bullseye Books, 1988. 978-0394820378. The
Lands of Dictionaopolis and Digitopolis. Paradox, wordplay, number play.
Island of the Unknowns (also found as The Unknowns), Benedict Carey, Amulet, 2011. 978-
0810996632. The Pythagorean Theorem embedded in a mystery.
Lost in Lexicon, Pendred Noyce, Scarletta Junior Readers, 2011. 978-0983021926. A quest adventure among word and number villages with middle school math concepts and beyond.
The Cryptic Case of the Coded Fair, Barbara and Robert Tinker, Tumblehome Learning,
2014. 978-0989792424. A time travel adventure to learn about cryptography and save the international science fair.

Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry, Mildred Taylor, Puffin, 2991. ASIN B00E32HPR2. Racism and family pride in the segregated South.
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland Lewis Carroll, Puffin Classics, 2008. 978-0141321073
The Giver, Lois Lowry, Laurel Leaf Reprint, ASIN B00E2907EE. A deceptive dytopia.
“The
Lady or the Tiger,” Frank Stockton (story - free) http://www.english-literature.unibayreuth.de/en/teaching/documents/courses/Stockton1.pdf
. Which gate should the prisoner choose?
The Lady or the Tiger? And Other Logic Puzzles, Raymond Smullyan. Random House Puzzles and Games, 1992. 978-0812921175. Theme and variations: delightful extensions of logic and false logic puzzles, with humor and captivating characters.
Fermat’s Enigma, Simon Singh, Anchor Books, 1998, 978-0385493628. History of the theorem and steps toward its solution.
Magnificent Minds: Sixteen Remarkable Women of Science and Medicine, Pendred Noyce,
Tumblehome Learning, 2015.
978-0989792479 or http://tumblehomelearning.com/product/magnificent-minds-16-remarkable-women-in-science-medicinehardcover-book/ .
Mathematical women included are Maria Cunitz, Florence Nightingale,
Sophia Kovalevskaya, Ada Lovelace, Emmy Noether. Grace Hopper. In Remarkable Minds,
Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Sophie Germain.
A Beautiful Mind, Sylvia Nasar, Simon & Schuster reprint, 2011, 978-1451628425.
Biography of John Nash, founder of game theory.
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences, John Allen Paulos, Holt
McDougall, 2001. 978-0809058402. A plea for mathematical thinking in everyday life.
Flatland, Edwin A. Abbott, Feather Tale Press, 2012 edition. 978-1611046014. Exploration of other dimensions; also a satire on Victorian society.
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives, Leonard Mlodinow. Vintage reprint,
2009, 978-0307275172. Historical and practical introduction to probability. Statistics, and chaos theory.
Resources http://www.InsideMathematics.org
. Look for Problems of the Month.
Mathical awards, from MSRI and CBC: http://mathicalbooks.org/portfolio/prize-winners
Mathematical Fiction, website of listings and reviews collated by Alex Kasman. http://www.Kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/
For finding the math in some middle school literature: https://www.chatham.edu/pti/curriculum/units/2009/LoAlbo.pdf

From chapter one of Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
“A barbed wire fence ran the length of the deep field, stretching eastward for a quarter of a mile until it met the sloping green pasture that signaled the end of our family’s four hundred acres.”
Problem related to The Giver
Two societies decide they want to control their population growth. In society A, each couple is allowed to have two children. In society B, each couple is allowed to keep having children until they have their first boy.
Which society will end up with more children? Which will end up with a greater proportion of boys?
Problem from Inside Mathematics
A man and his wife invite 5 other couples to a dinner party. As the guests arrive for appetizers before dinner, they shake hands. Not everybody shakes hands, and of course nobody shakes hands with his or her spouse. As they sit down to dinner, the host asks every other person, including his own wife, “How many hands did you shake?” To his surprise, he learns that each person shook a different number of hands.
How many hands did the host’s wife shake?
Poem
Old Euclid drew a circle
On a sand beach long ago
He bounded and enclosed it
With angles thus and so
His set of solemn greybeards
Talked and argued much
Of arc and of circumference
Diameter and such.
A silent child stood by them
From morning until noon
Because they drew such charming
Round pictures of the moon.
-Vachel Lindsay