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Level 1 algebra

The doubling duo, by Calvin Irons

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Australia      ISBN: 0732726182
This book may no longer be available for purchase.
DescriptionNumber patterns are introduced in many ways. Here two performers introduce doubling.
MathematicsNumber patterns.

Level 2 algebra

One is a snail, ten is a crab: A counting feet book, by April Pulley Sayre and Jeff Sayre

Publisher: Walker (2004)     ISBN: 1844281647
Activity based on this book.
Description
When you are counting by feet then 1 is a snail and 2 is a person and 4 is a dog! This book uses the number of feet on various animals to be the units by which numbers can be expressed.
MathematicsNumber patterns.

Wild Fibonacci - Nature's secret revealed, by Joy Hulme

Publisher: Tricycle Press      ISBN: 9781582463247
Activity based on this book.
DescriptionAn introduction to the Fibonacci number sequence and its presence in the animal world, such as in the curve of beaks and claws.
MathematicsNumber patterns.

Level 3 algebra

Fifty-five feathers, by Ben BrownBy a New Zealand author.

Publisher: Reed      ISBN: 9781869486839
Activity based on this book.
DescriptionPukeko goes searching for donations from the other native birds to make a cloak for her friend Gecko.
MathematicsSums of number sequences.

The rabbit problem, by Emily Gravett

Publisher: Macmillan      ISBN: 9781442412552
DescriptionThe Fibonacci sequence is explored by a family of rabbits over the course of one year.
MathematicsNumber patterns.

Level 4 algebra

The rabbit problem, by Emily Gravett

Publisher: Macmillan      ISBN: 9781442412552
DescriptionThe Fibonacci sequence is explored by a family of rabbits over the course of one year.
MathematicsNumber patterns.