Math All Around

Reinforces both sorting and reading skills, stimulates critical thinking, and provides students with an understanding of math in the real world.

Mila's cat, Muffin, can't tell time. Muffin wakes her up early every morning! Tired of having her sleep interrupted, Mila attempts to teach Muffin how to tell time. She tells her about the hour hand, the minute hand, and hour and half-hour units. Will Mila's teaching work? Will she ever get a full night of sleep? In Math All Around, narrative-driven stories introduce foundational math concepts to young readers in creative ways. Each title combines an interesting story with an important math concept from the Common Core curriculum, while simple language helps build readers' confidence in reading. This title corresponds to CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.MD.B.3.

When Nova helps her grandfather weed the garden, she earns five dollars for the work. What exciting things can she buy with five dollars? Using everything she knows about dollars, quarters, dimes, and nickels, Nova explores her options at the store and finds that getting what she really wants might mean saving the money rather than spending it. In Math All Around, narrative-driven stories introduce foundational math concepts to young readers in creative ways. Each title combines an interesting story with an important math concept from the Common Core curriculum, while simple language helps build readers' confidence in reading. This title corresponds to CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.C.8.

Reinforces both pattern identification and reading skills, stimulates critical thinking, and provides students with an understanding of math in the real world.

Introduces the concept of measuring to record height, weight, volume, time, and temperature, including the use of measuring tools. Stimulates critical thinking and provides students with an understanding of math in the real world.

Reinforces number identification, counting, and reading skills, stimulates critical thinking, and provides students with an understanding of math in the real world.

While his grandmother makes burritos for dinner, Adrian works on homework for a lesson on shapes. At first, he does not have a fun time with it. Then his grandmother asks him a simple question: What does a circle taste like? Her question leads to a series of delicious discoveries as Adrian tastes all sorts of different shapes. In Math All Around, narrative-driven stories introduce foundational math concepts to young readers in creative ways. Each title combines an interesting story with an important math concept from the Common Core curriculum, while simple language helps build readers' confidence in reading. This title corresponds to CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.A.1, 2, and 3, and CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.G.B.4.

Reinforces graphing and critical thinking skills, and provides a better understanding of the use of real-world math through examples involving desert life.

Ava loves building sandpiles with her toy trucks. Levin enjoys climbing the sandpiles with his toy dinosaurs. Both friends are convinced their toys are the best. But when they start directly comparing Ava's trucks and Levin's dinosaurs, they find that "the best" depends on which measurement they take. In Math All Around, narrative-driven stories introduce foundational math concepts to young readers in creative ways. Each title combines an interesting story with an important math concept from the Common Core curriculum, while simple language helps build readers' confidence in reading. This title corresponds to CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.MD.A.3.

Reinforces calculator, budgeting, and critical thinking skills, and provides a better understanding of the use of real-world math through examples involving grocery shopping.

Reinforces division and critical thinking skills and provides a better understanding of the use of real-world math through examples involving toys.

Reinforces the reader's ability to recognize and create fractions, stimulates critical thinking, and provides students with an understanding of math in the real world.

Promotes recognition of shapes on the road, including street signs and bridges; stimulates critical thinking; and provides an understanding of math in the real world.

Reinforces multiplication and critical thinking skills, and provides a better understanding of the use of real-world math through examples involving the running of a farm.

Uses a trip into the woods to teach basic arithmetic. Describes addends, sums, the commutative property of addition, and the associative property of addition. Also includes color photographs and a glossary of words found in the text.