MathStart

While a bunny and his mother shop in a grocery store for lunch guests, the reader may count and compare the amounts of carrots, peanuts, and worms in the grocery carts of other shoppers.

Teaches division as a group of friends goes on different carnival rides.

The Elm Street Kids' Club decides to sell lemonade to earn money to fix up their clubhouse and they use a graph to keep track of their sales.

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

In the Monkey Day Parade, monkey majorettes, cyclists, tumblers, and band members create a spectacle as they move along in groups of two, three, and four.

Introduces the concept of nonstandard measurement as three friends compete in a sand castle building contest.

Readers learn how to estimate as two friends guess how many passengers are on a bus, cars are in a traffic jam, and jelly beans are in a jar.

A surprise birthday party planned for a kangaroo by his friends provides many opportunities for the reader to add and multiply various things.

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.

Four bear cubs collect ingredients for a blueberry pie, counting and recounting them as their supply grows.