Murphy, Stuart J.

At the picnic on the last day of school, James, his friends, and the cafeteria lady make a variety of ice cream sundaes, using mathematics to figure out how many different kinds they can create.

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.

Uses a story of a three-way competition for votes to explain percentages to children.

When the 21st Street Sluggers, a baseball team, have a car wash to raise money, they learn to keep careful track of their dollars and cents.

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.

Presents a children's story for young readers on telling time and follows the daily activities of a young boy from waking up in the morning, going to school, and bedtime.

A drive to recycle cans on Earth Day teaches the children of the Maple Street School Save-the-Planet Club about place value.

Molly loves to play with her big brother's toy cars. As the red cars vroom and the yellow cars beep, readers can learn to recognize patterns, an early and essential math skill.

Jenny and Jeff are driving their little sister nuts with their contest fighting over who is best, and now that they are moving into a new house, they are arguing over whose room is bigger, so the children work together to calculate area to settle the debate.

Two squabbling siblings learn about symmetry when their babysitter helps them build and fly a kite.