Mathical Prize Winner1 Smile, 10 ToesNelleke Verhoeff, illustrated by Nelleke VerhoeffThis split-page book lets readers match heads with different tails and legs to make unusual characters and creatures. Numbers and body-part vocabulary appear as readers combine the pages, with examples involving ears, fingers, whiskers, and ankles. Each flap creates a new combination and a fresh opportunity to count.Pre-KindergartenView book detailsMathical Book Prize 2022
The 2022 edition includes 2 Mathical Hall of Fame titles, 13 Mathical Honor Books, and 3 Mathical Prize Winners. The source uses 6 audience or subject sections, including Pre-Kindergarten, Grades K through 2, Grades 6 through 8, and Grades 3 through 5. It records that year's Mathical Prize, Honor, and Hall of Fame results across the program's grade groups.
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Pre-Kindergarten
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Mathical Prize Winner1 Smile, 10 ToesNelleke Verhoeff, illustrated by Nelleke VerhoeffThis split-page book lets readers match heads with different tails and legs to make unusual characters and creatures. Numbers and body-part vocabulary appear as readers combine the pages, with examples involving ears, fingers, whiskers, and ankles. Each flap creates a new combination and a fresh opportunity to count.Pre-KindergartenView book details
Mathical Honor BookWhat Will Fit?Grace Lin, illustrated by Grace LinAt a farmers’ market, Olivia looks for an object that is just right for her basket. The story focuses on whether an item will fit, using the market trip to explore spatial sense. A Black child tests objects against the basket as she looks for the right match. The search is set among the items at the market and turns on their size and fit.Pre-KindergartenLexile Text Measure AD400LATOS Book Level 2.8View book details
Mathical Honor BookCircle Under BerryCarter Higgins, illustrated by Carter HigginsCircle Under Berry is a concept book built around looking closely at colors, shapes, and everyday objects. Its pages compare these elements and invite readers to see the same world from many perspectives. The book can work as an observation game and a spatial-awareness primer, while its language also plays like a tongue twister. Readers can explore the words and visual relationships at different reading speeds.Pre-KindergartenView book details
Mathical Honor BookShape Up, Construction TrucksVictoria AllenbyRhyming verse and bright photographs guide readers in finding geometric shapes on construction-site vehicles. Each spread looks for forms hidden on excavators, bulldozers, cranes, dump trucks, and other large machines. The book focuses on identifying shapes through details visible on the vehicles, combining a construction-site setting with a conceptual look at geometry. It returns to the question of what shape can be spotted next.Pre-KindergartenLexile Text Measure AD440LATOS Book Level 3View book details
Mathical Honor BookMarta! Big and SmallJen Arena, illustrated by Angela DominguezMarta, an ordinary girl who calls herself una niña, shares the jungle with unusual animal friends. Her explorations use comparisons of size and speed: she measures herself against a bug and an elephant, and finds that she can move more quickly than a turtle. The book also includes simple Spanish and ends with a glossary.Pre-KindergartenLexile Text Measure 380LATOS Book Level 2.7View book detailsGrades K–2
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Mathical Prize WinnerUma Wimple Charts Her HouseReif Larsen, illustrated by Ben GibsonUma Wimple loves making charts. A school assignment asks her to chart her own home, but the task troubles her as she tries to decide what makes a house into a home. The story follows Uma’s uncertainty about representing her home for the project, using charts and schoolwork to explore that question.Grades K–2Lexile Text Measure AD510LATOS Book Level 3.4View book details
Mathical Honor BookWe Are One: How the World Adds UpSusan Hood, illustrated by Linda YanWe Are One is an illustrated counting book that connects numerical ideas with unity and connection. It presents the larger whole as more than an accumulation of separate parts, placing counting beside relationships among those parts. The book’s central message ties numbers to the importance of being connected as one.Grades K–2View book detailsGrades 6–8
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Mathical Prize WinnerAfterMathEmily Barth IslerLucy is twelve and mourning Theo, her younger brother, who died from a congenital heart condition. Her family relocates to a Virginia community marked by an elementary-school shooting four years earlier. Because she did not experience that event, Lucy finds it hard to discuss her own grief. A developing friendship with an isolated peer, together with mathematics, helps her navigate loss and recovery.Grades 6–8View book details
Mathical Honor BookIn the RedChristopher SwiedlerLilith and Michael Prasad are friends who live in a settlement on Mars; any excursion beyond it requires dependable equipment and training. A solar flare damages their colony, separating the teenagers from safety on the Martian surface. With limited supplies, they must use scientific problem-solving, mutual trust, and Michael's efforts to manage panic attacks to survive together on Mars.Grades 6–8View book details
Mathical Honor BookMuch Ado About BaseballRajani LaRoccaTwelve-year-old Trish is skilled at solving difficult math problems and pitching a fastball. After her mother’s new job moves them to a new town, Trish faces a summer of trying to make friends again while her mother is busy. At baseball practice, she discovers that Ben, the sixth-grade math prodigy she defeated in the spring Math Puzzler Championships, is now her teammate.Grades 6–8View book details
Mathical Honor BookIt’s a Numbers Game! BaseballJames Buckley JrThis book examines the numbers calculated throughout a baseball game. It connects hits, balls, strikes, and home runs to mathematical ideas on the field. It also looks at the many statistics used to assess an individual player’s performance and at the precise timing involved when a player tries to steal a base. Baseball actions and records provide the focus for its exploration of math.Grades 6–8View book detailsGrades 3–5
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Mathical Honor BookMolly and the Mathematical Mysteries: Ten Interactive Adventures in Mathematical WonderlandEugenia Cheng, illustrated by Aleksandra ArtymowskaMolly enters a curious world where appearances are not always what they seem. This mathematical mystery asks readers to look for clues and lift flaps as Molly explores its unusual setting. Her journey unfolds through ten interactive adventures, with puzzles and discovery shaping the experience. The book combines a mystery framework with hands-on mathematical exploration, inviting readers to investigate the clues alongside Molly.Grades 3–5View book details
Mathical Honor BookClassified: The Secret Career of Mary Golda Ross, Cherokee Aerospace EngineerTraci Sorrell, illustrated by Natasha DonovanThis biography follows Mary Golda Ross, a Cherokee woman whose skill in math led to work as a mathematician and engineer. After attending college at sixteen and teaching high-school math and science, she joined Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Additional engineering classes led her to a secret team researching orbiting satellites during the space race. The book also explains four Cherokee values and describes Ross’s support for Native people and young women pursuing engineering.Grades 3–5Lexile Text Measure 940LFountas & Pinnell Text Level RView book details
Mathical Honor BookIf the World Were 100 People: A Visual Guide to Our Global VillageJackie McCann, illustrated by Aaron CushleyThis visual guide imagines Earth as a village of 100 people. Each person in that imagined village represents about 80 million people in the real world, offering a way to picture a global population of more than eight billion. The book uses this scaled-down global village to consider what the world’s people look like when represented by a group of one hundred.Grades 3–5View book details
Mathical Honor BookHedy Lamarr’s Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant InventorLaurie Wallmark, illustrated by Katy WuThis biography recounts Hedy Lamarr’s two paths: she became a Hollywood movie star after emigrating from Austria and was later recognized as an inventor. Colorful digital illustrations accompany the account, which also includes a timeline, references, and a filmography. It presents Lamarr as an actress whose inventive work emerged beyond her screen fame. Her career is portrayed across acting and invention.Grades 3–5View book detailsGrades 9–12
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Hall of Fame
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Mathical Hall of FameAnno’s Counting BookMitsumasa Anno, illustrated by Mitsumasa AnnoAnno’s Counting Book follows a field and its town through the twelve months of the year. It begins in January with one yellow house, one child building a snowman, one tree, and one black cow. By June, the field contains six buildings, six playing children, six working adults, six ducks, and a train with six cars. As the months move from one to twelve, the town grows.Hall of FameLexile Text Measure NP0LATOS Book Level 0.1View book details
Mathical Hall of FameThe Cat in NumberlandIvar Ekeland, illustrated by John O’BrienAt Hilbert's Hotel Infinity, the resident cat encounters a fully booked hotel whose rooms are occupied by Numbers. Both Odds and Evens fill its rooms, yet new guests continue to arrive despite the lack of vacancy. The puzzled cat faces a number-filled hotel in which a full set of rooms does not prevent more arrivals. Ivar Ekeland wrote the 56-page book, published by Cricket Books in 2006.Hall of FameView book details