When a quick guess is needed to count something, rounding can make math faster and fun! Read about two friends who are helping at a school fair. They learn that measuring, adding, and subtracting is easier if the numbers are rounded to whole numbers first. The children figure out ways to use rounding to estimate the amount of money raised at the fair, too!
Polygons are shapes with a number of sides joined together. They are everywhere! A baseball field is a diamond-shaped polygon. Join Emily at a baseball game and look for different shapes. She discovers that the field is full of much more than baseball players - it's filled with polygons, too.
Betsy helps out at Aunt Essie's Downtown Diner. Supplies, such as straws, are packed in groups of ten. Betsy breaks up tens and make tens as she helps set up and clean up. Read about the restaurant where Betsy learns about regrouping. See how regrouping helps in addition and subtraction.
One dog in a teacup; two caterpillars on a leaf; three horses having a conversation. Fun photographs and simple text help introduce young readers to counting numbers from zero to ten. A fish-counting activity encourages young readers to practice their counting skills.
Have you ever built something really big with building blocks? Did you need to use hundreds of blocks? Read about an after-school center, where the toys are counted in ones, tens, and hundreds, and it's easy to see place value in the numbers. Learning about place value is all fun and games at this play center!
Find out how to add and subtract cents when buying or selling something. Brian wants to make a lemonade stand to raise money for the local food bank. How much should he charge for a glass? How much change will customers receive? How much money will Brian raise?
What is area? It is a measure of space or of a place! The kids in Mrs. Jacksons class are learning all about area, and you can, too. See why area is important, what it is used for, and how to measure area in meaningful ways. Soon you will be measuring area in your own everyday experiences.
A pet store is not only a good place to learn about animals, its also a fun place to learn about math! Follow Luis on his pet store adventure and learn about decimals. The animals get involved, toothed goldfish even act out math problems!
Kids will learn about position and direction by following along with Sam in his family's new home. Where will he put things in his room - top, bottom, inside, outside, behind, in front, above, or below? Other concepts include left and right, and north, south, east, and west.
Ella is trying to decide who to invite over to play. This fun book helps teach children how likely it is that a certain result will happen. Simple activities performed by Ella include flipping a coin, rolling a number cube, and playing a game with a spinning wheel.
Ann's grandfather is teaching her how to use a calculator. This simple, engaging book describes the parts of the calculator, what the math symbols on the buttons mean, and how to do simple equations. Concepts explained include addition, subtraction, division, mulitplication and patterns.
Sofia makes a special birthday card for her Grandma by sliding, flipping, and turning shapes. Using the same simple steps, young children will learn about transformations as well as concepts such as diagonal, horizontal, and vertical.
All of the clocks at the amusement park have roman numerals instead of numbers. Young readers will learn how Abby and Ben figure out how to read roman numerals as well as the order of the rides they want to go onfirst, second, and third.
This fascinating book takes young readers on a trip to a science lab where they will learn about the metric system. Simple text shows ways of measuring length (meters and centimeters), temperature (Celsius), and weight (grams and kilograms). Comparisons between key metric measurements and similar U.S. customary measurements, such as yards, inches, and Fahrenheit, help children understand the two systems.
Simple text and colorful photos make learning important concepts easy. Familiar two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes and their properties from home and school are used to introduce children to symmetry and asymmetry, lines of symmetry, and congruence.
Grace and Ethan are going to the fair with their Aunt Sarah. Lines and angles are everywhere they look. Young readers will love to follow along with them and learn what lines and angles are.
The world of division is explored in the setting of a hardware store. Through modeling, readers will explore the meaning of division, the connection between division and subtraction, and the relationship between division and multiplication. Appealing photographs and helpful diagrams provide readers with a clear understanding of division.
Through real-life situations, children will be introduced to the vocabulary of math words and symbols. Fundamental vocabulary such as "greater than" and "less than," and the meaning of symbols such as +, /, =, are all explained with engaging photographs and easy-to-understand text.
In this book, young readers will grasp how to count, sort, classify, and organize various sets of items through engaging, everyday activities that kids can relate to. Through simple text and colorful photographs children are introduced to systems for sorting sets of shapes, colors, sizes.
Through vivid photographs, simple illustrations, and clear text, young readers will discover the basics of multiplication. In the setting of a bakery, readers will explore the relationship between multiplication and addition, the properties of multiplication, and models of multiplication.
This exciting new book helps budding mathematicians discover how to use subtraction. Come along with a museum curator as he prepares a butterfly exhibit. Concepts of taking away, comparing, difference, key words, modeling, and using the algorithms of subtraction are all explained in a fun and real-life setting.
Colorful photographs of measuring tools show the reader how they can measure using common tools at home. This book offers the young reader a clear insight into understanding length, weight, capacity, and temperature.
Understanding the place value system is a foundation to all operations as children progress in mathematics education. This book introduces readers to the whole number place values, comparing, and ordering numbers using colorful, engaging images and simple text.
This book is filled with full color artworks and images, introducing the young reader to the concepts of currency. Money explains the many concepts of money to primary readers, including understanding the value of unique coins and bills, counting money, and checks.
This book introduces the concepts of surveys, data, pictographs, and bar graphs with excellent visuals and engaging text. In this book, young readers will understand how numerical data is communicated through graphs.
