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March Mathness for tweens from Multcolib Kids

[updated 3/3026] Numbers, equations, patterns, measurements and more math explorations for grades 4, 5, 6.

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19 items

  • Seven Golden Rings

    a Tale of Music and Math

    LaRocca, Rajani,
    In ancient India, a boy named Bhagat travels to the rajah's city, hoping to ensure his family's prosperity by winning a place at court as a singer. Includes author's note about binary numbers.
    Book, 2020New York : Lee & Low Books Inc., [2020] — jE LAROCCA 2020
  • Telling a story about pigeons should be simple. But what's a narrator to do when the number of feathered friends is constantly changing? Can our intrepid storyteller use math facts to keep up with the unstable quantities...or is this pigeon-centric…
    Book, 2019Seattle, WA : Innovation Press, [2019] — jE Concept CITRO 2019
  • When the teacher tells her class that they can think of almost everything as a math problem, one student acquires a math anxiety which becomes a real curse.
    Book, 1995New York, NY : Viking, [1995] — jE SCIESZKA
  • Why are the walls of Stately Academy covered in the number 9? Hopper and her friend Eni are determined to get to the bottom of it, but the mystery of Stately Academy has been programmed into its very stones.
    Graphic Novel, 2015New York : First Second, 2015. — jgn YANG 2015
  • Who came up with the idea for numbers? How are shapes useful to different jobs? What is the third dimension?Answers, activities and puzzles to explore all this and more!
    Book, 2022New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2022. — j 510 G6242h 2022
  • Preferring fantasy novels over math, Babymouse finds herself on the school math team as it prepares to compete for the coveted Golden Slide Rule.
    Graphic Novel, 2009New York : Random House, [2009] — jgn HOLM 2009
  • Molly and the Mathematical Mysteries

    Ten Interactive Adventures in Mathematical Wonderland

    Cheng, Eugenia,
    Molly ventures into a curious land where nothing is quite as it seems. A trail of clues leads from one mystery to another, but who is leaving them and where will they go? This interactive math book shows there's more to math than sums and numbers.
    Book, 2021Somerville, Massachusetts : Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press, 2021. — j 793.74 C51878m 2021
  • Math Maker Lab

    27 Super-cool Projects : Build, Invent, Create, Discover

    You don't need to be a math genius or even know how to use a calculator to do these projects. Each comes with easy-to-follow instructions, photographs, and illustrations to help whip up super cool mathematics creations!
    Book, 2021New York, NY : DK Publishing, 2021. — j 510 M4261 2021
  • Trish and Ben, math competition rivals who find themselves on the same baseball team, discover mysterious books called The Mathematics of the Wild, whose odd math puzzles seem to magically help the team and bring the former rivals together. But when…
    Book, 2021New York, NY : Yellow Jacket, [2021] — j LAROCCA 2021
  • Starting her own all-girls mathlete team, Talia, who loves math puzzles and code-breaking, is determined to lead her team to victory while trying to break the social code of preteen life.
    Book, 2023Somerville, Massachusetts : Walker Books, [2023] — j MOSS 2023
  • Books with fascinating facts shared through graphs, comparisons, and statistical data about animals, insects, dinosaurs, disasters, Earth and the solar system.
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  • Math in Action

    Numbers and Shapes Are All Around You!

    Abercrombie, Lou,
    From photography and cooking to ballet and fashion design, math is the building block of everything!
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Kingfisher, 2024. — j 510 A144m 2024
  • Adventures in Math

    How to Level Up Your Math Game

    Wu, Carleigh,
    Five common math myths are debunked, including there is only one right answer and one way to find that answer, and that math isn't creative.
    Book, 2025Toronto, ON : Kids Can Press, [2025] — j 510 W9591a 2025
  • Seventh-grader Henri navigates the demands of her learning disability, dyscalculia (which impacts learning math skills), a new school, and family dynamics.
    Book, 2023New York : Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2023] — j DAVIS 2023
  • The Big Book of Pi

    the Famous Number You Can Never Know

    Lehmann, Anita
    Pi never ends and can t be learned, but humans keep on trying.
    Book, 2026Basel, Switzerland : HELVETIQ, 2026. — j 512 L5233b 2026
  • Mammoth Math

    (with a Little Help From Some Elephant Shrews)

    Macaulay, David,
    A fun guide to all things math: addition, telling time, estimates, codes, fractions, measurements, Fibonacci sequence, Venn diagrams and more!
    Book, 2022New York, NY : DK, 2022. — j 510 M1172m 2022
  • Who Did It First?

    50 Scientists, Artists, and Mathematicians Who Revolutionized the World

    Leung, Julie,
    Discover mathematicians from history and today, along with others who impacted our world.
    Book, 2019New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019. — j 920.02 L653w 2019
  • A biographical novel in verse of seven girls from different time periods who used math to explore the mysteries of the universe and grew up to do innovate work that changed history.
    Book, 2020New York, NY : Atheneum Books for Young Readers, [2020] — j ATKINS 2020