Math for the real world

Tells the story of the California gold rush, covering such topics as how prospectors got there by sea and by land and what life was like for miners, including immigrants, and presents related multiplication and division problems with three- and four-digit numbers.

Uses a timeline of a frog's life cycle to teach children sequential order and about frogs.

Describes the sequential steps of making a breakfast, from going to the kitchen to cleaning the dishes.

Shows how a week's worth of weather can be depicted in pictographs.

Uses an election for class president to show how to read bar graphs, presenting the number of votes each candidate received.

Simple text and photos ask students to identify which item in a group is different than the rest.

Simple text and photos of animals in a forest reinforce such concepts as above, under, in, on, in front of, and behind.

Simple text and photos show several families' activities at different hours throughout the day.

Illustrations and simple text describe how to measure an object using inches.

An introduction to measuring with inches and feet that provides information on different types of snakes while explaining the units of measurement.