Neil, who is not good with numbers, faces the possible ruination of his birthday when he uses a magic watch to make all the numbers in the world disappear and then realizes how important they are in everyday living.
This book explains the basic concepts of numbers, discussing the idea of zero, adding one more to three, and saying how many if there were one fewer than three.
Introduces children to mathematical ideas, such as the difference between odd and even, place value, patterns, skip counting, ordering, estimation, and others.
