Best Children's Books for Teaching Fractions

Full House:An Invitation to Fractions
(an innkeeper must feed her guests)
by Dayle Ann Dodds
Kindergarten - 3rd grade math

Fraction Fun
(teaching fractions with everyday
objects; loads of activities)
by David Adler
2nd grade - 4th grade math

Whole-y Cow
Fractions Are Fun
(cow presents fraction scenarios)
by Taryn Souders
1st grade - 3rd grade

The Lion's Share
Tale of Halving Cake & Eating It Too (splitting up a cake into fractions)
by Matthew McElligott
1st grade - 4th grade

Fractions, Decimals,
and Percents
(teaches how to change fractions
to decimals, percents to fractions...)
by David Adler
3rd grade - 5th grade math

Working with Fractions
(teaches that fractions are everywhere, even a birthday party)
by David Adler
illustr by Edward Miller
3rd grade - 5th grade math

Funny and Fabulous
Fraction Stories
30 Reproducible Math Tales to
Reinforce Important Fraction Skills
By Dan Greenberg
3rd grade - 7th grade

The Wishing ClubA Story about Fractions  
(four kids wish on a star, only a fraction seem to come true)
by Donna Jo Napoli
Kindergarten - 3rd grade

Go Fractions!(early reader that works in fractions as they relate to a soccer team)
An All Aboard Math Reader
by Judith Stamper
2nd grade - 4th grade math

Fractions = Trouble
(the story about a child who is struggling to understand fractions)
[NOTE: does not teach fractions]
by Claudia Mills
2nd grade & Up

The Hershey's Milk
Chocolate Fractions Book
(uses Hersheys to teach fractions)
by Jerry Pallotta
Kindergarten - 4th grade math

Apple Fractions
(fractions lesson via apple slices)
by Jerry Pallotta
illustrated by Rob Bolster
Kindergarten - 2nd grade math

Mary Clare Likes to Share
(fraction lesson & story of sharing)
Step Into Reading Math Reader
by Joy Hulme
Kindergarten - 1st grade math

Fraction Action
(loads of fraction lessons in
a comic book format)
by Loreen Leedy
Kindergarten - 3rd grade math

Pizza Counting
(using pizza to present fractions)
by Christina Dobson
illustrated by Matthew Holmes
1st grade - 4th grade math

Piece = Part = Portion
Fraction = Decimals = Percents  
(using pizza to teach equivalencies)
by Scott Gifford
3rd grade - 5th grade math

Polar Bear Math
Learning About Fractions from Klondike and Snow (teaches fractions in real world application)by Ann Whitehead Nagda
3rd grade - 5th grade math

Multiplying MenaceThe Revenge of Rumpelstiltskin:
(multiplying whole #s and fractions)
by Pam Calvert
3rd grade & up

Clean Sweep Campers
(fraction fun at summer camp!)
A Math Matters series book
by Lucille Penner
2nd grade - 3rd grade math

Jump, Kangaroo, Jump
(teaches fractions via the games at an animal school "field day")
a MathStart series book
by Stuart Murphy
2nd grade - 4th grade math


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