Check out These Math Picture Books For Home Schooling

Reading stories about subjects is a great way to learn that doesn’t feel like learning as much as memorizing facts or using a workbook.

And when kids are first learning their numbers and basic math concepts, engaging stories are a great way to get them started. This collection of math picture books from Imagination Soup is a great one to get you started introducing numbers and math to your little one, or to slip into their reading basket for them to discover.

A lot of these are great to read with related activities, such as making black dots to go with 10 Black Dots by Donald Crews or finding your own 100 things to count with one of the 100th-day books.

While many of these are for younger kids, there are also books that include addition, subtraction, multiplication, sorting, division, geometry, money and telling time, among other concepts that will be enjoyed by elementary-aged kids as well.

Do you use stories to teach about numbers and math? Of these, my daughter loved Mouse Shapes and Mouse Count the most (so far). Which ones have your kids loved?

[Photo via Imagination Soup.]

Looking for more resources? Check out these board games for learning Math and Multiplication?

Several countries have a day set aside to honor and recognize their inventors, but Nov. 9 is a special one that’s known as Tag der Erfinder in German. It’s celebrated in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and it falls on Nov. 9 because that’s the birthday of Hedy Lamarr.

Hedy Lamarr is widely known as an actress but there’s a lot more to her story. You can get a little of it geared to little kids in the Little People, Big Dreams book Hedy Lamarr (32 pages, hardcover, published 2023 by Frances Lincoln Childrens Books, suggested retail price $15.99).

The book explores her birth in Austria and how she spent time when she was young coming up with inventions. She became an actress, married an arms dealer, made her escape to America and became an actress again.

But she also helped develop a frequency-hopping signal device for airplanes that was used by the Americans and their allies during World War II. That technology became the basis for wireless technology such as wifi and GPS.

While Inventor’s Day is a great time to learn about Hedy Lamarr, you can take this opportunity to check out books and do little studies on lots of different inventors. If there’s an inventor or an invention your child is particularly interested in, that’s a great place to start. It’s fun to think about all the things we use every day that didn’t always exist; someone had to invent them!

For a start here at Craft Gossip you can learn more about Garrett Morgan, who invented traffic lights; Maria Oroso, who developed a clay oven that could cook food without electricity; and more female inventors and scientists.

And for more general inventors’ fun, check out this inventors word search from Fun Findery (and another from Let’s Do Puzzles) or take a quiz on inventors and their inventions from Flanders Family Home Life.

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