2024 Mathical Winners Announced
Explore the 2024 award-winning books for ages 2-18, and find flyers and more to share with your community!
Join the Mathical Powers of Ten Read-a-Thon as a classroom this school year!
Explore the 2024 award-winning books for ages 2-18, and find flyers and more to share with your community!
Find 2024 Mathical Book List flyers to share with your school or community, book cover images of all winners, and more.
This year’s selections explore the many facets of mathematics from cleverly crafted puzzles to the colorful stories of groundbreaking women to resilience and healing in the aftermath of tragedy.
The National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) has announced that the book for their July 14, 2024 “Tween Primes” book club for ages 10-17 will be Mathical Honor Book Can You Crack the Code? A Fascinating History of Ciphers and Cryptography by Ella Schwartz. This is an online event – register at momath.org/tween-primes. From MoMath: Are you …
A list of Mathical award-winning titles with Spanish language translations available and/or bilingual English-Spanish content, current to the best knowledge of the Mathical team.
Educators worldwide are invited to join the Early Math Project for a free Virtual Symposium held via Zoom on Friday, June 21, 2024 from 9am – 1pm U.S. Pacific Time. The Early Math Symposium (and its buddies Science, Engineering, and Technology) is a professional development opportunity jointly sponsored by the California Department of Education, the California State …
The National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) has announced that the book for their July 14, 2024 “Tween Primes” book club for ages 10-17 will be Mathical Award Winner Genius: The Game by Leopoldo Gout. This is an online event – register at momath.org/tween-primes. From MoMath: Are you a budding mathematician between the ages of 10 and …
The National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) has announced that the book for their June 9, 2024 “Tween Primes” book club for ages 10-17 will be Mathical Award Winner Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math by Jeannine Atkins. This is an online event – register at momath.org/tween-primes. From MoMath: Are you a budding mathematician between the ages of …
Mathical will be featured at the inaugural Joint Conference on K-5/Elementary Literacy and Mathematics co-hosted by NCTE and NCTM in New Orleans, LA on June 17-19, 2024.
The Erikson Early Math Collaborative at Erikson Institute in Chicago has a new article featuring four Mathical Book Prize winners on measurement, "a topic with a lot of early math big ideas"!
With support from the Firedoll Foundation, thousands of Oakland, California school libraries received Mathical award-winning books for their students with help from Oakland Literacy Coalition volunteers.
Join an online book club for ages 10-17 featuring "In the Red" by Christopher Swiedler. (Online, fee-based event)
On March 7, 2024, writer Marlaina Cockcroft of School Library Journal shared the story of how SLJ’s Mathical Book Prize Collection Development Awards has helped U.S. Title I school libraries around the nation add inspiring math stories for all ages to their school collections, pairing Mathical award-winning books with library and classroom activities for students. …
March 8 is International Women’s Day — why not explore one those Mathical award-winning stories of women in science, technology, mathematics, and engineering? Grades K-2 (Ages 5-7) Counting on Katherine: How Katherine Johnson Saved Apollo 13By Helaine Becker, illustrated by Dow Phumiruk Counting the Stars: The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA MathematicianBy Lesa Cline-Ransome, illustrated …
We at Mathical are saddened by the news of the death of Mathical author Robie Harris on January 6, 2024. We appreciated her warm and boisterous presence at the National Math Festival in Washington, DC in 2019, where she sat on the carpeted floor of the Mathical Reading Room and read books aloud to children. …
Join the Mathical Book Prize on Wednesday, February 21, 2024 from 12-1pm U.S. Eastern / 9-10am U.S. Pacific Time via Zoom to learn about the winning titles for the 2024 Mathical Book Prize! This online event is free and open to the public, and will feature live conversation with some of this year’s winning authors.
Do you love sports? Numbers – and other fine characters – abound in the nonfiction and fiction titles featured!
For middle-grade readers and up, curl up with a good book about intrepid puzzle-solvers and mysterious occurrences!
School Library Journal, SLMath select 32 Title I school libraries as winners of 2023-24 Mathical Collection Development Awards, receiving $850 grants to purchase Mathical Prize-winning books.
Math and…poetry? We love unlikely combinations… and hope you'll enjoy these rhythmic, rhyming treats.
You'll be amazed at how much fun math can be, when it's refracted through the lens of space travel, tech development, historical fiction, and science fiction.
We are grateful to the Bay Area chapter of ParentChild+ who distributed more than 2,450 new Mathical books to families in need during Summer 2023. The book giveaway reached more than 300 families comprising more than 1,860 children from birth to age 5. Mathical books were provided in five languages to meet the needs of …
What makes a great storybook guide? We share the Mathical Books guides for educators, librarians, and parents from our collaborators, plus resources for more!
The Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath), in partnership with School Library Journal (SLJ), announce a fifth cycle of a funding program aimed at getting fiction and nonfiction inspiring a love of math into the hands of K–12 students in Title I schools. The 2023–24 Mathical Collection Development Awards will award $700 to up to 32 Title I U.S. …
When books mirror our lives, they are more fun to read. Here are some of our favorite Mathical children’s book titles featuring brothers, sisters, and family antics! AGAIN, ESSIE? by Jenny Lacika Rafael likes to build things. Essie likes to knock them down. What will it take for Rafael to create a barrier of makeshift …
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