 | Home Learning Year by Year: How to Design a Homeschool Curriculum from Preschool Through High School by Rebecca Rupp
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $3.99 Resource Book for the other books recommended on this list. Pages refer to more detailed descriptions and uses for the items recomended by Rebecca Rupp.
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 | Saxon Math 1 An Incremental Development: Home Study Teachers Edition by Nancy Larson
Buy new: $49.85 / Used from: $5.15 p68 Rupp recommends the children's version,but I feel that all you really need is the homeschool teacher's edition.
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 | Blue Book (The) (Miquon Math Lab Materials) by Rasmussen Lore
Buy used from: $2.58 p68. First in series. Stresses problem solving skills and creative thinking.
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 | Anno's Math Games by Mitsumasa Anno
Buy used from: $5.91 p68 Math puzzles, problems, activities, and explanations.
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 | 100 Days Of School by Trudy Harris
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $4.37 p70. Clever presentation of math operations.
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 | From One to One Hundred (Picture Puffin Books) by Teri Sloat
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.24 p70. Counting from 1-10, and then by 10s to 100 Illustrated.
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 | One Potato: A Counting Book of Potato Prints by Diana Pomeroy
Buy used from: $2.43 p70. Uses colorful potato-print illustrations to help children learn to count, and to make their own potato prints.
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 | 98, 99, 100! Ready or Not, Here I Come! (Hello Reader! Math, Level 2) by Teddy Slater
Buy new: $3.99 / Used from: $0.01 p70 Four little girls playing hide and seek find clever ways to count to 100.
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 | The Crayon Counting Book by Pam Munoz Ryan
Buy used from: $0.01 p70. Count 24 crayons by 2s using odd and een numbers.
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 | The King's Commissioners (A Marilyn Burns Brainy Day Book) by Aileen Friedman
Buy used from: $9.30 p71. The King wants to know how many commissioners he has, and there are quite a few! How to make counting them easiest?
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 | Super Source for Culsenaire Rods, Grades K-2 by Cusinarire Co of America Inc
Buy used from: $5.94 p72. Super inexpensive sources for Culsenaire rods and supporting workbooks.
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 | Math by All Means: Place Value, Grade 1-2 by Marilyn Burns
Buy used from: $9.00 p72. Innovative lesson plans, games, activities to help learn place value.
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 | Apple Fractions (Rookie Read-About Math) by Donna Townsend
Buy new: $5.95 / Used from: $1.42 p72. Substitution for Eating Fractions, which isn't widely available.
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 | Fraction Action by Loreen Leedy
Buy new: $7.95 / Used from: $2.65 p72. Little animals learn about fractions, dividing geometric shapes, sets of objects, pieces of fruit, and money.
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 | The Best Vacation Ever (MathStart 2) by Stuart J. Murphy
Buy new: $5.99 / Used from: $0.01 p73. Little girl collects opinions of family members and charts results.
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 | Math By All Means: Money, Grades 1-2 by Jane Crawford
Buy new: $25.44 / Used from: $2.29 p75. Hands-on way to learn about money through games, activities and appealing lessons.
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 | Alexander, Who Used to Be Rich Last Sunday by Judith Viorst
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.13 p75. Alexander blows his only dollar in a series of disastrous trades and purchases.
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 | The Go-Around Dollar by Barbara Johnston Adams
Buy new: $14.94 / Used from: $3.95 p75. Sound information to help youngsters understand the basics about our paper currency.
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 | Melissa & Doug Deluxe Magnetic Calendar
Buy new: $15.43 p76 My grandson loves this calendar. It can be rearranged and used for many years. Great way to learn how calendars work by building your own.
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 | ONE HAND AT A TIME 01714 (DALE SEYMOUR PRODUCTS) by Patricia E. Smith
Buy new: $19.96 / Used from: $4.03 p76. A time-telling activity book.
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 | Fisher-Price Fun-2-Learn Teaching Clock
p76 Rupp recommends any clock, but I like this one which teaches both analog and digital clock reading at the same time.
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 | How Big Is a Foot? by Rolf Myller
Buy new: $4.99 / Used from: $1.17 p76. Delightful explanation of the importance of standard measurements.
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 | Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.75 p77. Inchworm measures everything in sight.
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 | Twelve Snails to One Lizard: A Tale of Mischief and Measurement by Susan Hightower
Buy new: $12.23 / Used from: $0.01 p77. Milo, a beaver, needs a yard-long branch, but how to create one out on the pond?
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 | Math By All Means: Geometry, Grades 1-2 by Chris Confer
Buy new: $25.44 / Used from: $0.28 p77. Kids learn math of shapes and patterns through games, activities, etc.
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 | A Cloak For The Dreamer (Brainy Day Books) by Aileen Friedman
Buy new: $13.13 / Used from: $3.50 p77. A tailor's sons create cloaks or rectangles, triangles and circles.
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 | M Is for Mirror by Birmingham
Buy new: $13.00 / Used from: $0.01 p78. Using mirror included, children try to find hidden pictures.
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 | Which Way, Ben Bunny: A Lift-The-Flap Book about Left and Right by Mavis Smith
Buy used from: $0.01 p78. This book makes if fun to learn left from right.
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