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Resource Collection
Standard: Standard - CC.2.1.7.D.1

Analyze proportional relationships and use them to model and solve real-world and mathematical
problems.

A. 4 trade books
i. Adler, D. A., & Tobin, N. A. (1997). Fraction Fun. Holiday House.
Fraction fun is a book for young children, mostly in elementary grades,
but it is a book that helps with foundational knowledge about fractions. It makes it
easier to apply real world fractions with the theme of exploring which fractions
are larger in different scenarios throughout the book. It introduces dealing with
money in a “common cents” section and also uses pizza math as an example for
fractions and the size of numerators and denominators.

ii. Adler, D. A., & Miller, E. (2007). Working with fractions. New York: Holiday
House.
Likely an updated book from the one above, this book explores lots of
math terminology that has to do with fractions. Though it does go more in depth
with building on how to apply different operations and deal with word problems
that have fractions. It is a really good resource for helping students and teachers
with solving word problems and strategies to do so. Both books are written by a
man who was a math teacher prior to writing them, and it seems that he focused
more on things that his own students may have struggled with before seeing a
visual representation.

iii. Pallotta, J., & Pallotta, J. (1999). The Hersheys Milk Chocolate: Fractions Book.
New York: Scholastic.
The Hershey chocolate bar books are written in a series to explain math
concepts at a very basic level. This book uses the Hershey bar as an example of
how to work with fractions with denominators of 2,4,6, and 12. Since Hershey
bars are split into 12 blocks, the theme makes for a really fun visual for dealing
with these fractions. It is designed to help the reader understand parts of a whole
and how each fraction relates to the same value with a different denominator.

iv. Souders, T., & Mai-Wyss, T. (2010). Whole-y cow!: Fractions are fun. Ann
Arbor, MI: Sleeping Bear Press.
With a title that is a play on words itself, “Whole-y cow!” finds creative
ways to present mathematics and fractions in a fun way for young readers. The
cow is used to demonstrate math concepts throughout the book in a variety of
ways. There are a lot of math problems posed to the reader, all of which have
answers to them in the back so they can check their work for accuracy. Inside are
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many illustrations used to demonstrate what parts of objects looked like in

comparison to fractions.
B. Quizizz: This resource is a very easy to use resource that allows teachers to chose from
any topic, and create a quiz or homework of their own problems, another teacher’s
problems, or a combination of both. It is especially helpful for remote learning if it is
needed in that fashion. It also will grade accuracy and organize the results in different
ways so you can see what students are struggling with easily.

C. https://whyy.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/muen-math-rp-
proportionalrelationships/proportional-relationships/
This video is useful for directing students for an easy-to-understand introduction to the
topic of proportions. It is able to explain in a real life manner that students will be able to
associate their knowledge of recipes to the idea of proportions.

D. https://www.khanacademy.org/math/cc-seventh-grade-math/cc-7th-ratio-proportion/cc-
7th-proportional-rel/v/introduction-to-proportional-relationships
https://www.education.vic.gov.au/school/teachers/teachingresources/discipline/maths/ass
essment/Pages/lvl5prop.aspx
These two links should be helpful in many ways teaching proportions. The first is a khan
academy intro that helps with basic understanding in a clear and simple way, and the
second is an article that helps identify common misunderstandings of the topic so
students can avoid them in the future.

Standard: Standard - CC.2.2.7.B.3

Model and solve real-world and mathematical problems by using and connecting numerical,
algebraic, and/or graphical representations.

A. 4 trade books
i. Scieszka, J., & Smith, L. (1995). Math curse. New York, NY: Viking.
This book starts with a student pondering the statement that anything in
life can be a math problem. For most of the book, she is trying to break the math
curse and she even falls into a deep sleep and begins trying to solve every math
problem she ever has come across. Eventually, she finally is able to solve them
and break the curse. This results in her being able to solve any problem put in
front of her. The book ends though with a twist. The next day she is told by a
science teacher that anything in life can be a science problem. She then loses that
power and it is assumed she has to defeat the science curse. This book along with
having math problems in the storyline, can also be an example to students that it is
not impossible to learn how to break their “math curse”.

ii. Orwell, G. (1945). Animal farm. Toronto, Ontario: The Penguin Group.

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This book is largely read as a book of historical metaphor or political

book, but it also includes some math ideas in it as well. This book is about a farm
that the animals have to decide how to rule themselves after getting rid of the
farmer. After successfully ridding themselves of all human rule, they ponder
every way do distribute food and labor across each member of the farm.
Eventually they are ruled over by the pigs, and everything is terribly mishandled
and they begin to see the farm fall apart and animals fail to survive in the end. The
math in this book could likely be applied to life in a financial sense. I have had
classes where the students were put in mock families and had to decide how they
would use their resources on food and other things to keep the family going, so
this book could have a similar application.

iii. Isdell, W. (2009). A gebra named Al. United States: Createspace Independent.
This book is commonly compared to a math version of Alice in
wonderland. Julie, after getting frustrated with a problem in algebra, is swept
away into another world where creatures speak to her and her gebra guide and the
scientific horses are helping her through a world of math and science. The goal is
to find her way to the mathematician’s castle and find her way home from there.
The book is full of math applications that would help her find her way home.

iv. Briggs, R. (2012). Jim and the beanstalk. London: Puffin.

Jim and the Beanstalk is a spin-off of the famous story of jack and the
beanstalk. Jim finds a huge stalk in his yard and climbs it as any curious person would
do. At the top, he discovers a lonely giant and decides to become friends with him (a
slight difference from the original story). This is as redemption for the original story in
which jack “robs” the giant’s father by letting him tumble to his death. This story has a
bit of geometry application if you get creative with some of the parts of the story, but it is
more of a vague mentioning

B. https://www.desmos.com/calculator
Desmos is an online graphing calculator that can represent any algebraic equation and
plot it on a graph on the screen. This is a much cheaper option than having each student
buy their own graphing calculator.

C. https://luckylittlelearners.com/videos-that-teach-graphing/
This link helps by giving students a collection of short videos about the topic of graphing
and why it is important to know how to do it. it gives a foundational knowledge of the
topic to build off of.

D. https://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/createagraph/https://mrnussbaum.com/math/graphing-day
The first link is a really cool resource that helps students design a graph of whatever
kinds of data they want to represent. The second could be used for students to present an
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activity that has to do with graphing to help their classmates further understand specific
applications

Standard: Standard - CC.2.3.7.A.1

Solve real-world and mathematical problems involving angle measure, area, surface area,
circumference, and volume.

A. 4 trade books
i. Showalter, M. E. (1950). Mennonite community cookbook. Winston.
This is a cookbook that is at my house that is unique to some Mennonite
communities. It provides people with lots of recipes that have been passed down
for generations among specific families. It may not be a math book intentionally,
but it does deal with volumes and other measurements that apply to cooking and
the ingredients used. It takes just a bit of understanding of these math concepts to
be effective with following recipes. It also takes math to expand and minimize the
amount of food to be made in each recipe.

ii. Juster, N. (2015). The phantom tollbooth. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

The phantom tollbooth is a story about a boy named Milo who stumbled
upon a magic tollbooth into a world where he encounters many creatures with
math characteristics. Some were named with math terms, and he is introduced to a
watchdog who was a dog with a clock on his side. He goes on a quest to save two
princesses and save the Kingdom of Wisdom from the rulers who opposed the
king and his brother who said that numbers and letters are of equal importance.
This book uses many mathematical terms in a fun adventure for children to read
and learn the importance of math and problem solving with all sorts of different
mathematical topics.

iii. Swift, J., & Womersley, D. (2012). Gullivers travels. Cambridge: Cambridge

Univ. Press.
Gulliver’s travels is a widely known book among young readers. It is a
travel tale in which Gulliver sets sail and finds many different villages after being
the lone survivor of a shipwreck, one has small people, one is full of giants, one is
full of yahoos, and one is full of people who are easily distracted and have one
eye pointing toward the sky. He experiences various adventures in his time
travelling in each of these places, and eventually is rescued by his own people and
lives to tell the stories of what he saw. This book can give students some
perspective on measurement and size with the comparison of the small people and
the giants and other phenomenons that occur in this book.

iv. Pinczes, E. J. (1999). One hundred hungry ants. Schol.

One hundred hungry ants begins with a hundred ants finding a picnic.
They decided it would be better if more ants could get some food at once, so they begin
to divide in two, then four, then five, then ten rows. By the time they aligned themselves,
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the food was gone and those hungry ants turned to angry ants because they were left
without food to take with them. This book applies division in a simple form, and can help
with remembering what numbers multiply to get one hundred for students who struggle
with their multiplication facts.

B. Schoology: I have seen this website used in multiple subjects and for different things, but
for math and solving problems of angles and measurements, it has resources within it to
create worksheets and practice along with uploading any additional information to help
students along in the topic.

C. https://www.ginifab.com/feeds/angle_measurement/
This link is useful for letting students upload photos and explore different ideas of how
they could apply angle measurements in real life things that they may have pictures
readily available for.

D. https://sciencing.com/simple-ways-figure-out-angles-8547835.html
https://www.cuemath.com/measurement/
The first link is an article that explains how to measure an angle with a protractor and
introduces what measuring angles looks like. The second shows all sorts of
measurements found in math and explains them with the different formulas, and there are
links inside to different pages on different specific topics.

Standard: Standard - CC.2.3.HS.A.14

Apply geometric concepts to model and solve real world problems

A. 4 trade books
i. Coerr, E., & Himler, R. (2004). Sadako and the thousand paper cranes. New
York: Puffin Books.
This book is about a young girl in Japan who survived the atomic bombs
and battled cancer, but she found joy in making origami birds. It was
designed to bring some awareness of the negative affects of war, but it also
includes a little bit of geometry in the use of shapes to create these cranes
from a piece of paper. The point is not to scare, but to warn and help children
understand how war affects other people and give an inspiring story to read.

ii. Neuschwander, C., & Langdo, B. (2009). Mummy math: An adventure in

geometry. New York: Scholastic.
Matt and Bibi are locked into a pyramid unexpectedly on a family trip.
Their goal is to find their way to the burial chambers, but they need to
decipher the hieroglyphics, but they are all geometric shapes. Using their
knowledge of these concepts, they are able to reach their destination with
ease. This book also has a geometric application and can help students who
read it to understand or brush up on some geometry terms in a fun way.
iii. Guinness World Records. (2018). London, England: Guinness World
Records Limited.
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There are all sorts of fun facts in this book that is a compilation of all kind
of odd records and bizarre accomplishments around the world. It may be
crazy to think that this could have a geometry application, but there are some
records that involve shapes, and also some engineering feats that are largely
due to how shapes work in relation to aircraft and other things that require the
right shapes to maximize their effectiveness. Some strange world records
have to be calculated to find the best angles and use of math ideas to achieve
their world record aspirations.

iv. Ellenberg, J. (2021). Shape: The hidden geometry of information, biology,

strategy, democracy, and everything else. New York: Penguin Press.
This book was written to show how deeply embedded that geometry is in
our lives and the everyday world. It considers geometry’s effect on
democracy, pandemics, the stock market, and education. All of these are laid
out as problems that use geometry. It is good for students to understand that
their world has a ton of geometrical applications, and the real application of
what they learn in the class may not be clear all the time, but the problem
solving and puzzle aspect of it is important to everyday life.

B. Khan Academy: This website has very clear and concise lessons on just about any
subject you could think of in academics, and could be used very easily as a part of a
lecture in any difficult topic. There are also advanced features such as mastery
courses and games, but it can mostly be used for the instructional videos at any time
in order to help the teacher.

C. https://www.cuemath.com/measurement/
This link is from the last standard, and it is also useful for finding the measurements
crucial to geometry with volume, surface area, and perimeter. It is very helpful with
both 2 and 3 dimensional shapes and understanding how to calculate the size of
them.
D. https://www.khanacademy.org/math/basic-geo?
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https://www.splashlearn.com/math-vocabulary/geometry/geometry
The khan academy link is a specific place in the website with information on basic
geometry and links to more places within the website to learn more about geometric
concepts. The next link gives some vocabulary on the basic concepts needed for
geometry, and students can explore it and discover what they know and don’t yet
know using this page.

Standard: Standard - CC.2.4.8.B.1

Analyze and/or interpret bivariate data displayed in multiple representations.

A. 4 trade books
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i. Gladwell, M. (2019). Outliers: The story of success. New York: Back Bay

Books, Little, Brown and Company.
Outliers is a book that explores many different people whose
accomplishments are mere dreams of normal people, such as the success of
Bill Gates or professional hockey and soccer players. The people and
communities discussed are presented with their accomplishments and also the
events in their lives leading up to adulthood. The author decides he will leave
it up to the reader whether or not the person or people in question would
qualify as outliers or just a result of their circumstances. This book makes the
reader discuss and evaluate the data provided by the author and decide where
the people fit in the world. It includes charts, graphs, and descriptions to help
visualize what is presented about each accomplishment. If a student was to
use this book, they would have to create their own scatterplot based on the
data given in the book.

ii. Winston, W. L. (2012). Mathletics: How gamblers, managers, and sports

enthusiasts use mathematics in baseball, basketball, and football. Princeton,
NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.
This is a book on how people from any aspect of sports apply the use of
math in their fandom, management, or gambling risks in the world of sports.
Sometimes the eye test doesn’t help much in making decisions or analyzing
sports. It likely will require numbers to find out who will win games, or who
the sports managers should go after to make their team a more effective team
and achieve the highest levels of success.

iii. Lewis, M. (2013). Moneyball: The art of winning an unfair game. New York:
W.W. Norton.
Many people likely think of the movie when they hear the title moneyball.
This book is the detailed description of what went into the decisions that were
in the movie. When they talk about analytics and numbers that factor into who
plays for the team, this book has it. The Oakland Athletics found much
success by analyzing the data and putting in the right lineups based on what
the situation of the game is. This book could get students really excited about
statistics classes and plotting data when they have a real interest in the real
world application in a sport they play themselves.

iv. McKissack, P., & Schutzer, D. (2016). A million fish...more or less. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf.
This is a read that many younger students could enjoy. A young man takes
a fishing trip in the bayou and encounters some mischievous creatures that try
to derail his trip. But the trip ends in his catching a million fish… more or
less. There is a lot of data to consider in this type of book and could make for
some interesting graphing exercises based on the huge numbers presented.
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B. https://mathcracker.com/scatter_plot#results
This is a website that allows students to plot their values in a scatterplot to see it if
there are numbers that are not able to be plotted on the graph due to insufficient
space. It is also quicker and easier that writing it all out and drawing the graph.

C. https://artofsmart.com.au/hsctogether/constructing-a-bivariate-scatterplot/
this is a good resource to help students learn how to create a scatterplot and includes a
few informational videos inside with instructions on how to do it.

D. https://chartio.com/learn/charts/what-is-a-scatter-plot/
https://www.chartblocks.com/en/support/faqs/faq/when-to-use-a-scatter-chart
Both of these final links are information on when to use scatterplots to deal with
bivariate data. Each gives examples and definitions with real life application to the
topic and some key terms that may be used when using them.