- for kids who are ready for really big numbers. Try Counting on Fall and Sorting Through Spring -- I highly recommend an outdoor story time session with these books! Try  Working With Fractions and Fraction Action to explain the idea of parts vs. whole. 11 ratings — 1,428 ratings — 198 ratings — First, because it's a different way to approach the topic -- less numbers and more words will really help some kids to better grasp a concept. 2,572 ratings — The math books for kids listed below are mainly for younger children but a few are appropriate for older elementary students. 1,369 ratings — 93 ratings — If you're looking for ideas for counting big numbers, be sure to read out 100 Ways to Count to 100 post -- great for the 100th Day of School activities or estimation jars! published 1986, avg rating 4.11 — 24 ratings — published 2000, avg rating 3.82 — published 2015, avg rating 4.19 — published 1991, avg rating 4.18 — (Hardcover), Tractor Trouble (Disney/Pixar Cars) (Little Golden Book), Doctor Esperanto and the Language of Hope (Hardcover), Puffin Rock: Goodnight Beautiful Moon (Paperback), Five Little Monkeys Wash the Car (Paperback), The Pout-Pout Fish, Far, Far from Home (Hardcover), Bouncy Tires! published 2016, avg rating 4.10 — 33 ratings — published 1997, avg rating 4.33 — published 1991, avg rating 4.24 — If purchases are made using these links, we may receive a small commission, at no additional cost to you! 1,153 ratings — published 2014, avg rating 4.45 — 345 ratings — Counting Our Way to Maine - wonderful & funny family read. This week's Discover & Explore topic is Math so I thought it was the perfect time to share some of our best loved math stories. So here's the issue at our house -- we've got one child who is a math whiz and another who wouldn't mind if math was wiped off the face of the earth. 408 ratings — A few that we enjoy include: Math Potatoes: Mind-stretching Brain Food. 11 ratings — Over in the Ocean: In a Coral Reef - a rhyming count-along of your favorite sea animals. 52 ratings — Yes! One of the things we love about his stories is the math is presented in a variety of word problems so kids quickly begin to see that math doesn't always look like an equation. 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