Math matters

When Kit, Jay, and their grandma take a train trip across the country, Kit learns the importance of being on time.

Upon moving to their grandfather's house, two boys discover a treasure map in the attic and must learn how to use it in order to find their surprise.

While pondering how to buy her mother a birthday present with no money, Deena finds a penny and follows a process of discovery about how pennies add up to nickels, which add up to dimes, all the way up to four quarters making a dollar.

Tom, Anne, and Gordon learn about shape and measurement when they try to find the right spot for their chicken pen.

Before he can go fishing, a boy has to figure out how to get himself, his dog and all his gear out to an island in a boat that can only carry 100 pounds.

When she spills her grandmother's button box, Kelly and her cousins try to sort them by size, color, and shape and they earn Grandma's gratitude.

Marco surveys his friends and uses bar graphs to convince his father to raise his allowance.

On the last day of school Brad keeps running into bad luck, but by the end of the day he realizes that there is always a chance things will get better.

Anna uses household objects to build a structure to keep her cat's newborn kittens from getting underfoot.

When some classmates come down with chicken pox, Kip uses tables and charts to help determine if there will be enough students to put on the planned Holiday Show.