Reddit reviews Here's Looking at Euclid: From Counting Ants to Games of Chance - An Awe-Inspiring Journey Through the World of Numbers

There’s a great Radiolab about this by Alex Bellos: http://www.radiolab.org/story/love-numbers/

Alex has written a couple books about math and numbers: https://www.eamazon.com/Heres-Looking-Euclid-Counting-Awe-Inspiring/dp/1416588280/ref=la_B00K042IJC_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522425983&sr=1-2

https://www.amazon.com/Grapes-Math-Reflects-Numbers-Reflect/dp/1451640110/ref=la_B00K042IJC_1_5?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1522425983&sr=1-5

I enjoyed reading this as an adult, wish I would have read it in my teens or younger.

The best book punnily titled after a great thinker since Here's Looking at Euclid!

This one might be good.

http://www.amazon.com/Heres-Looking-Euclid-Counting-Awe-Inspiring/dp/1416588280

Alex Bello's Here's Looking at Euclid (something different in the UK, I think it's something about Mathmagic Land) is pretty good. Also, some of the videos from TED about math education are very good. Another video where it takes you through the calculations needed to find the number of pennies in a pyramid.

I'll try to find the links:

http://www.amazon.com/Heres-Looking-Euclid-Counting-Awe-Inspiring/dp/1416588280#

http://www.ted.com/talks/dan_meyer_math_curriculum_makeover?language=en

Also, Dan Meyer has a website that's pretty good (http://blog.mrmeyer.com) and you can find good videos on Youtube about real world math problems.