Comments on: Fibonacci Books for Kids

By: Erica MomandKiddo

Erica MomandKiddo — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 22:14:02 +0000

In reply to Patti Askins. That's a great book!

By: Patti Askins

Patti Askins — Sat, 27 Feb 2016 11:01:34 +0000

A more general-math fun book for young readers is the rhyming Math Curse by Sciescza & Smith, featuring a teacher named Mrs. Fibonacci. Great fun and great message...that almost everything in life can be viewed as a math problem.

By: Erica MomandKiddo

Erica MomandKiddo — Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:24:56 +0000

In reply to Carol Simon Levin. Hi Carol, that is a great book! I included it on my list of math chapter books and I'm glad you mentioned its connection to Fibonacci. Thank you so much for your kind words about my lists. I am so pleased they have been useful to your library!

By: Carol Simon Levin

Carol Simon Levin — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 14:29:37 +0000

Thanks for this post and all your other great lists -- I am a youth services librarian at a public library and have been recommending them to patrons and printing them and putting them up with related displays!
Another wonderful book that addresses Fibonacci and other math curiosities is "The Number Devil: A Mathematical Adventure" by Hans Magnus Enzensberger. It is a chapter book rather than the picture books on your list, but makes a great read-aloud. We enjoyed it as a family read when my daughters were in 2nd & 6th grade -- and they grew up to be out-of-the-box thinkers (a computer scientist and mechanical engineer/circus aerialist).

By: Raising a Happy Child

Raising a Happy Child — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 00:07:27 +0000

All of these are great ideas. I need to check them out. I also completely forgot about this sequence until the recent post at Almost Unschoolers.

By: Anya

Anya — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 22:07:00 +0000

I have to learn more about Fibonacci myself, but we checked out The Rabbit Problem recently- very funny book. Will check out the other books you recommend too.

By: MaryAnne

MaryAnne — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:22:44 +0000

Mike would go nuts if he had a child like Kiddo! He was a lot like your son as a kid (and uses some pretty intense math at work these days), but so far our kids take after mostly number-ignoring-in-the-early-years me... I'll see if our library has copies of these for him to read to them, though - he would enjoy that, and they probably would as well.

By: Mom and Kiddo

Mom and Kiddo — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 17:07:56 +0000

In reply to Jennifer. Great suggestion. I didn't know about this video.

By: MamaTea

MamaTea — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 12:27:03 +0000

Amazing the things that I "knew" in school, but forgot, and am rediscovering while we are learning along with the kids again. These look like great books! 🙂

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Sat, 25 Feb 2012 11:45:22 +0000

You must know about--or must check out--Vi Hart's quick-spoken, quick-drawn video series on Fibonacci.

I have watched it twice because she talks so fast AND because it combines a long-time loathe (math) with a long-time love (art).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahXIMUkSXX0