Brooklyn Center Community Schools has been selected to receive the Mathical Book Prize Collection Development Award. This grant will go toward expanding our collection of literary fiction and nonfiction books to encourage kids to discover a love of mathematics.
Jane Gottfried, Library and Media Specialist at Brooklyn Center Middle and High School STEAM, is always looking for ways to grow and expand literary resources for students.
“I strive to purchase books that reflect the diversity in our student population, make our library collection relevant, and support our content areas… this grant ticked all the boxes,” said Gottfried.
This grant is awarded by the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute in partnership with School Library Journal and provides selected schools $700 to purchase new math-related literature.
“It is exciting to have these additional funds to purchase books specifically supporting our math curriculum – every little bit helps!” said Gottfried.
Students will soon find a new selection of literature among the bookshelves.
New Nonfiction titles will include:
- Grasping Mysteries: Girls Who Loved Math by Jeannine Atkins
- Hedy Lamarr’s Double Life: Hollywood Legend and Brilliant Inventor by Laurie Wallmark
- Hidden Women: The African-American Mathematicians of NASA Who Helped America Win the Space Race by Rebecca Rissman
- If the World Were 100 People by Jackie McCann
- Secret Coders: Volume 1 by Gene Luen Yang and Mike Holmes
- Can You Crack the Code?: A Fascinating History of Ciphers and Cryptography by Ella Schwartz
New Fiction titles will include:
- The Great Trouble: A Mystery of London, the Blue Death, and a Boy Called Eel by Deborah Hopkinson
- Nearly Gone by Elle Cosimano
- Slay by Brittney Morris
- Binti by Nnedi Okorafor
- The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-Kiss by Amy Noelle Parks
The Mathical Book Prize Collection Development Awards are made possible with funding from the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation.
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