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Teach Essential Mathematics Concepts and Skills with Children's Literature.

You’ve always known Literature opens new worlds…Now use stories to open the world of Mathematics. Developed by America’s leading math educator, The Marilyn Burns Classroom Math Libraries build essential math concepts and skills while providing teachers the support necessary for effective math instruction.
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Each grade-level classroom math library:

  • Features 25 classic, contemporary and award-winning titles
  • Includes multiple copies, 5 each, of 5 of the titles
  • Includes a grade-level Teacher’s Handbook that explains how to use each math book as the basis of a math lesson
  • Reinforces math lessons with group and individual hands-on activities
  • Comes in an attractive display case for easy classroom management

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One of today’s most highly respected mathematics educators, Marilyn Burns is the creator and founder of Math Solutions Professional Development, dedicated to the improvement of math instruction in Grades K–8 for more than 40 years. Learn More about Marilyn Burns
Math Books from the Marilyn Burns Math Library
Math Books from the Marilyn Burns Math Library

Each Marilyn Burns Classroom Math Library includes a grade-level Teacher Handbook that provides 25 standards-based, title specific lesson. Written by Marilyn Burns, each math lesson strengthens instructional strategies used for teaching math and to reinforce critical thinking, computation, number sense, and problem solving skills.

Each math lesson:

  • aligns to math standards
  • addresses grade-level appropriate math topics
  • identifies the connection to your math curriculum
  • provides a summary about the book and the math lesson
  • contains detailed instructional strategies for teaching mathematics and includes follow-up math lesson extensions

Click here to view a math lesson plan for Amanda Bean’s Amazing Dream by Cindy Neuschwander from the Grade 3 Teacher Handbook




Title Lists
Kindergarten (PDF)
Grade 1 (PDF)
Grade 2 (PDF)
Grade 3 (PDF)
Grades 4–6 (PDF)
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Math Solutions Professional Development, founded by Marilyn Burns, offers professional learning support that K–8 teachers need to be effective teachers of mathematics. To that end, the organization has more than twenty years of experience working in partnership with school districts by providing face-to-face in-service, on-site coaching, professional resources, videotapes, etc. At the core of everything Math Solutions designs for school districts, are three broad goals that are essential for mathematics education professional development — learning more mathematics, understanding how children learn math, and developing instructional strategies for effective classroom instruction. Learn More

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