Math is great! discussion

I will be teaching math to high school students. I am considering adding more fictional young adult literature to my curriculum. Does anyone have book suggestions for a progressive math classroom? I am especially interested in books with multicultural characters.

You said you are considering adding more - what do you currently include?

None, actually. I would like to begin adding literature to the math classroom curriculum.

This was an interesting novel: A Certain Ambiguity.
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/97...
Could lead to some fun discussion.

Christina,

I have a book shelf entitled mathematical fiction that you may find helpful. The titles on this shelf run the gamut from pedogogical fiction to having mathematics as a theme of some sort or mathematical people as characters. I have not written any reviews so if you'd like to correspond regarding any feel free to get in touch.

I also recommend that you take a look at Alex Kasman's Mathematial Fiction site. Alex is a professor of mathematics at the College of Charleston and in addtition to maintaining the extensive bibiography at his website and writing some mathemaical fiction of his own, he encourages the use of fiction in teaching mathematics. I believe he has written some on the topic.

Christina wrote: "I will be teaching math to high school students. I am considering adding more fictional young adult literature to my curriculum. Does anyone have book suggestions for a progressive math classroom? ..."

I am going to try "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" with some advanced middle-schoolers, as a less-painful way to approach fractions. I'll try to provide updates.

Alice in Wonderland? How is that math related? I'm curious, because I've never read the book and only seen the disney movie (and yes, I fully realize that disney slaughters books to make them kid friendly). Some physics-related books that I've recently foudn (yeah, i know, physics doesn't equal math) are Alice's Adventures in Quantumland, Scrooge's Cryptic Carol, and The Wizard of Quarks. Just suggestions from a high-schooler ^^

Kevin, I love your math fiction bookshelf. I'll definitley check them out. I've also read The Sand-Reckoner by Gillian Bradshaw and loved it.

When I first joined, I was looking for novels about math and listed some I'd read in the Welcome! thread. Now we've been talking about programming, so I'm getting interested in novels about programmers. Here are some mystery novels I haven't yet read, but I will be checking them out.

Something To Kill For: When It Comes To Garage Sales, Finding A Treasure Can Be Murder... by Susan Holtzer
Null_Pointer by Ken McConnell

Found them on Google searching "programmer mystery novel" - don't know if they'll pan out.