2025 Mathical Winners Announced
Explore the 2025 award-winning books for ages 2-18, and find flyers and more to share with your community!
Publishers: Submit titles to the 2026 Mathical Book Prize (Aug.28-Sept. 26, 2025)
U.S. Educators: Join the Fall 2025 Mathical Readathon
Explore the 2025 award-winning books for ages 2-18, and find flyers and more to share with your community!
The 2025 Mathical Book Prize submissions will open August 29 – September 27, 2024. Publishers are warmly invited to submit an unlimited number of qualified titles for any and all age groups. There is no fee for submission to the 2025 Mathical Book Prize. See the Call for Submissions for full details. View the 2025 …
We are grateful to our friends at the Luce-Fahey Family Foundation for their generous support for a pilot program to distribute Mathical Books to unhoused women and children in California and the Pacific northwest.
Mathical stories featuring dogs, poetry, and citizen science for young people to try at school or home!
Resources for participating classrooms featuring book highlights, author interviews, and more.
Learn from "Six Dots" author Jen Bryant about the story of Louis Braille and his childhood invention of the Braille alphabet which millions of blind and visually impaired people use every day.
Explore Mathical Books about sports, and check out an interview with Mathical Book Prize co-chair Dr. John Urschel of MIT about his "paths to math" as a mathematician and former professional football player with the NFL's Baltimore Ravens.
Great, you’ve signed up for the Mathical Readathon! Now what? Finding the Books It’s up to you to pull together books to use in your classroom. But be hopeful – many of them may be close at hand! Counting Your Classroom “Reads” Your class will be recognized on the Mathical website each month based on …
Meet the members of the 2026 Mathical Book Prize Selection Panel.
Who: Classroom teachers in the U.S., Grades PreK-8 When: September-December 2025 What: Free resources for all registrants including: Why: For the joy of reading & math Readathon Resources
The Guru Krupa Foundation returns as a sponsor of the Mathical Collection Development Awards in 2025-26.
Each month after Readathon participating classrooms report their total reads, we celebrate their milestones!
Free graphics to share on class or school websites or newsletters sharing Readathon participation and milestones achieved.
Free classroom printables to count individual and classroom books read, designed by Mathical author Lalena Fisher (Friends Beyond Measure).
Three Mathical authors shared their insights with K-5 educators at the second annual joint conference of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) in Chicago, June 16-18, 2025. Kerry Aradhya, author of Ernő Rubik and His Magic Cube, and Christine Liu-Perkins, author of The Quest …
Celebrating 2024-25 Mathical Collection Development Award Winners with School Library Journal and the Guru Krupa Foundation.
Celebrating 2024-25 Mathical Readathon participating schools
Four Mathical authors of books for Grades K-2 answer five questions about measurement and writing children's books: Lalena Fisher, Nicola Kent, Rilla Alexander, and Mike Downs.
Five questions about measurement and writing children's books with "You Rule!" author and illustrator Rilla Alexander.
Five questions about measurement and writing children's books with "A Treasure of Measures" author Mike Downs.
Five questions about measurement and writing children's books with "Measuring Me!" author and illustrator Nicola Kent.
Five questions about measurement and writing children's books with "Friends Beyond Measure" author and illustrator Lalena Fisher.
By Dr. John UrschelCo-Chair of the Mathical Selection Committee & Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Mathical Book Prize Co-Chair Dr. John Urschel is Assistant Professor of Mathematics at MIT and former offensive lineman for the NFL’s Baltimore Ravens. Recently, John talked with a fellow Canadian, author Eric Zweig, about …
Celebrate March 14, the International of Mathematics — also known as Pi Day, 3.14 — with these free posters and classroom activities from the International Mathematical Union.
Mathical Selection Committee member Johanna Cinquegrana interviews author Kyla Zhao (May the Best Player Win) about her book, playing chess, and centering a love for the joys of the game over competitive pressures.
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