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10 best books like The Adventures of Penrose the Mathematical Cat (Theoni Pappas): The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure, Thomas, The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way, Life of Fred: Apples, Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland, G Is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book, What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math Adventure, Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin, Math Appeal: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles, Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar

The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure
AuthorHans Magnus Enzensberger
ISBN0805062998
The international best-seller that makes mathematics a thrilling exploration.

In twelve dreams, Robert, a boy who hates math, meets a Number Devil, who leads him to discover the amazing world of numbers: infinite numbers, prime numbers, Fibonacci numbers, numbers that magically appear...
Thomas
AuthorRobin Jarvis
ISBN0811854124

Following the resounding success of my Locus Quest, I faced a dilemma: which reading list to follow it up with? Variety is the spice of life, so I’ve decided to diversify and pursue six different lists simultaneously. This book falls into my FINISHING THE SERIES! list.

I loves me a good...
The Story of Science: Aristotle Leads the Way
AuthorJoy Hakim
ISBN1588341607
Readers will travel back in time to ancient Babylonia, Egypt, and Greece. They will meet the world's first astronomers, mathematicians, and physicists and explore the lives and ideas of such famous people as Pythagoras, Archimedes, Brahmagupta, al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci, Ptolemy, St. Augustine,...
Life of Fred: Apples
AuthorStanley F. Schmidt
ISBN0979107245
Numbers that Add to 7, Circles, Ellipses, Reading 6:00 on a Clock, 5 + ? = 7, Days of the Week, Leap Years, Spelling February, Dressing for Cold Weather, 15 Degrees Below Zero (–15º), Deciduous Trees, Deciduous Teeth, Counting by Fives, 3x + 4x = 7x, Archimedes 287 B.C. Wrote The Sand Reckoner and Got...
Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland
AuthorCindy Neuschwander
Sir Cumference is a series of entertaining, clever, and imaginative medieval fantasy tales set in a world full of fun geometry-based names and lands. The reader follows the adventure of each book and discovers new math concepts along with the knights and ladies in the stories - and sometimes dragons....
G Is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book
AuthorDavid M. Schwartz
ISBN1883672589
B is for Binary, F is for Fibonacci, P is for Probability... even a small sample begins to give you the idea that this is a math book unlike any other. Ranging freely from exponents to light-years to numbers found in nature, this smorgasbord of math concepts and trivia makes a perfect classroom companion...
What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? A Math Adventure
AuthorJulie Ellis
ISBN1570911509
I first heard this story when a math teacher of mine read it to our whole class. i like this book so much because it is in relation to an actual store with how a math theorem works. It gives kids something to picture in their head when they hear Pythagoras’s Theorem. This text can help build your knowledge...
Multiplying Menace: The Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin
AuthorPam Calvert
ISBN1570918902
This book is a continuation of the King and Queen's life 10 years later and their son Peter is the main character. Rumpelstiltskin seeks revenge and returns to the castle to steal Peter and cause mayhem among the castle and the village. Rumpelstiltskin multiplies the king's nose by 6 and 4 branches by...
Math Appeal: Mind-Stretching Math Riddles
AuthorGreg Tang
ISBN0439210453
NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author Greg Tang challenges kids to solve problems creatively in this follow-up to MATH FOR ALL SEASONS.

In this book you'll learn to see
How very clever you can be.
We'll teach you tricks to help you add,
Some day in math class you'll be glad!

In...
Anno's Mysterious Multiplying Jar
AuthorMasaichiro Anno
ISBN0698117530
"Superbly demonstrating the conception of factorials in mathematics, the text and pictures combine to present a lesson in a palatable form as well as the pleasure of looking at pictures that only Mitsumasa Anno could invent." — Publishers Weekly"The book moves logically and elegantly from the...
Family Math
AuthorJean Kerr Stenmark
ISBN0912511060
How can parents help their children with math at home? With over 300 pages of lively activities, the classic FAMILY MATH book represents one of the greatest strides taken to involve parents in the mathematics education of their children. Using easy instructions and simple objects such as beans, blocks,...
Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians, Volume 1
AuthorLuetta Reimer
ISBN0866515097
Ah but we're missing the subtitle! The full title is: Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians.

My parents are in that group of retired folk that go into public schools and read stories to children - of course, it helps that mom was a teacher for something...
Math for Smarty Pants
AuthorMarilyn Burns
ISBN0316117390
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Anno's Magic Seeds
AuthorMitsumasa Anno
ISBN0698116186
A man is given two magic seeds. He is told he can eat one, and it will sustain him all winter, and plant the other one, which will bear two more magic seeds. For several years he does so, and each year winds up with one seed to plant.
But then he gets smart. He decides to eat something else, and plants BOTH...
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