Brown Rabbit's Shape Book by Alan Baker
Use the card stock to make a box. Use the cubes to find the area of one side of your box. What is the volume of your box?

Galimoto by Karen Lynn Williams
Write directions so that someone else can build a galimoto identical to the one you built with pipe cleaners.

The Greedy Triangle by Marilyn Burns
Go on a triangle hunt. Make a list of all the things you could find made out of triangles. Count the list. How many triangles did you find?

A Grain of Rice by Helena Clare Pittman
Try to discover a formula to figure out the number of grains of rice Pong Lo would receive on the hundredth day. Use a calculator and the function table.

The King's Chessboard by David Birch
Design a function table to show how many grains of rice the wise man received each day.

Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr
Create a display. Find a way to show 1000 items so that someone else can see easily how many items you have without having to count each individual piece.

Counting on Frank by Rod Clement
How many pens would it take to get from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C.? (clue: There are 5280 feet in a mile.) How did you figure it out?

Pancakes for Breakfast by Tomie dePaola
Rewrite the recipe to show what the measurements wold be if you only had a 1/4 cup and a 1/2 teaspoon to use.

Who Sank the Boat? By Pamela Allen
Build three different-sized boats using aluminum foil. Estimate how many pennies each boat will hold. Test your theory. Record your results.

Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
Reread the story acting it out with the play money.

Caps for Sale by Esphyr Slobodkina
Using the money, show the total worth of the peddler's caps that were for sale.

Pigs Will Be Pigs by Amy Axelrod
Order other meals from the Enchanted Enchilada menu using no more that the amount of money they found.

17 Kings and 42 Elephants by Margaret Mahy
As the elephants marched through the jungle, the kings saw a variety of animals. On each page of the blank book, show the number of one type of animal the marchers saw (ex. 2 peacocks). At the bottom of the page write a multiplication equation to show the number of legs shown on your page (ex. 2X2=4).

The Doorbell Rang by Pat Hutchins
Use 12 cookies and the plates to act out the story. Write down or tell someone the division facts in the story.

How Many Feet in the Bed? By Diane Johnston Hamm
What would your function chart look like if this book was about a family of horses? Of starfish? Of ants? Of spiders?

 Place Value

The $1.00 Word Riddle Book by Marilyn Burns
What do you think will be the most expensive color word? What is the total value of the colors of the rainbow?

The King's Commissioners by Aileen Friedman
How many commissioners do twenty-three 2's and 1 more make? Use the counters to help you.

 Problem Solving

Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar by Masaichiro and Mitsumasa Anno
Pretend there are 4 people in your family. Guess how many different ways they can sit around your dining room table. Use the seating arrangement diagrams to show all the different ways possible. Was your guess correct?

The Eleventh Hour by Graeme Base
Is the tiny number hidden somewhere on each page important? Why?

Fish Eyes by Lois Ehlert
Choose a fish in the story. Give someone three clues about the fish and then let him/her find the fish in the book. Did you do an accurate job of describing the fish? Try again or take turns.

The m&m's Chocolate Candies Counting Book by Barbara Barbieri McGrath
Design a graph that shows the contents of the bag of cubes. Write three questions that can be answered by the information displayed in your graph.

Look Twice! By Duncan Birmingham
Write a message on tracing paper. Turn it over and trace over the letters. Now give this to afirend to read using the mirror. Was s/he successful? Why? What does the mirror do?

"M" is for Mirror by Duncan Birmingham
Use the Letter Chart and mirror to find the letters with vertical, horizontal, and/or diagonal lines of symmetry. Do any letters have all three?

The Grouchy Ladybug by Eric Carle
Pretend it took the grouchy ladybug an extra 15 minutes each time to get to the next animal. What time did it finally arrive back at the leaf where the friendly ladybug was waiting? Use the Ladybug Timesheet and clock stamp to show your answers.

The Wonderful Counting Clock by Cooper Edens
Pretend you are the clock. Figure out what the actual time would be for each page in the story. Clap your hands to show the hour and tap your legs to show the five minute intervals. Snap your fingers if there are minutes beyond the five minute interval. (Example: 5:17 would be 5 claps, 3 taps, and 2 snaps.)