MathStart

While trying to save enough money to buy a new ice scooter, Perry the Penguin learns about managing his money and about negative numbers.

The face painting booth at the school fair provides plenty of opportunities to count combinations of coins adding up to fifty.

A young girl uses data-collecting and problem-solving skills to determine where her family should go for a vacation.

A variety of different bugs compare their relative sizes while going on parade.

A group of lizards are late for their big performance, until then start arriving in groups of five. Presented in simple rhyming text and illustrations and introduces the basic math concept of counting by five.

A pack of coyotes tries to determine how many roadrunners and other creatures are in their vicinity, and while some count different groups and add their totals together, Clever Coyote rounds off and estimates.

As he asks more and more friends to join him for lunch, Turtle must make up sets of dishes to accommodate them.

As a farmer tries to find the correct number of mittens for his various farmyard animals, the reader is introduced to odd and even numbers.

Explains, through the use of rhyme, the concepts of time lines and addition as a girl gets ready for school with the help of her smart dog.

Explains the concept of subtraction through a rhyming text about a descending elevator.