mathematics

Uses real-life situations in arcades, stores, and restaurants to teach the value of coins and paper money; how to write money amounts with numbers, symbols, and decimal points; how to estimate and compare; and how to give and receive correct change.

Introduces children to the terms, components, and methods of fractions, relating fractions to problems encountered in everyday life.

Introduces students to concepts in geometry, covering solids, shapes, and attributes, and including real-life examples.

Presents an introduction to graphing data, explaining how surveys, observations, amd experiments can be used to create diagrams that tell a story, from school lunch preferences, to following plant growth.

Contains music videos of positive rap songs that introduce multiplication facts from zero through twelve.

A super-creative collection of math activities based on skills and concepts that correlate with NCTM standards.

Food is cut into halves, quarters, and thirds to illustrate how parts make a whole. Simple recipes included.

An introduction to data analysis and probability that describes how wildlife scientists such as Ian Stirling and Jane Goodall use graphs and charts in their work, and includes a time line and problem-solving activity.