Yazoo County High School has been selected to receive the fifth annual Mathical Collection Development Award to expand its library’s collection of literary fiction and nonfiction books to encourage kids to discover a love of mathematics.
The local high school is one of 36 libraries in K–12 Title I schools nationwide to be presented with this $850 grant to purchase award-winning titles from the Mathical Book Prize list. The grant is awarded by the Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute (SLMath) in partnership with School Library Journal (SLJ).
Mathical titles encourage students to explore the joy, beauty, and power of mathematics in the world, through books spanning topics from magic, sports, art, music, and poetry, to biographies, adventure, graphic novels, and picture books. Mathical titles are chosen every year by a committee of math teachers, language arts teachers, mathematicians, librarians, early childhood experts, and others to support students’ pleasure reading.
The Mathical Book Prize is presented by SLMath in partnership with the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), and in coordination with the Children’s Book Council (CBC). For more information, visit mathicalbooks.org.
