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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.

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

Circus animals and performers getting ready for a show form basic geometric shapes.

A little girl goes through the day counting her "buddies" which include one hamster, two sisters, three kittens, etc.

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

Introduces simple addition through a rhyming text about animals being delivered for a merry-go-round.

Readers are introduced to the concept of probability in a story about a boy who has a day in which nothing goes right.

At a family reunion, the cousins line up in order of their ages to get their pictures taken, introducing the concept of numerical order.

Explains through the use of rhyme the concepts of timelines and addition as a girl gets ready for school with the help of her smart dog.

As they consider sorting their rock collection by color, size, type, and hardness, Josh and Amy learn that the same objects can be organized in many different ways.

Introduces pattern recognition as a sock searches the house for its lost mate.

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

Four students arrive on the first day of school looking cool and their teacher challenges them to keep it up as they count down one hundred days to a cool celebration.

Lisa keeps a journal of her new kitten's first year.

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

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.

Uses a dialog between two friends, one who estimates, one who counts precisely, to show estimation at work in everyday life.

On a car trip to the beach, the O'Malley family children compete by playing games together.

The guppy in the pet store ripples through the water as he swims, so Carlos names him Ripley. Carlos wants to buy Ripley, though first he needs to set up a fish bowl at home with a little help from big sister Ana. He pours a cup of water into the bowl, but it isn't nearly enough. Then another cup, which makes a pint. But he needs more. How many pints make a quart? How many quarts in a half-gallon? In a gallon? It sure takes a lot of water to keep a little fish happy!

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.

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

Kangaroo and his Australian animal friends divide themselves up into different groups for the various field day events at camp.

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

As six monsters play a wild game of musical chairs, readers learn to subtract--one chair at a time.

While performing an energetic gymnastic routine, Zoe demonstrates such spatial opposites as on and off, inside and outside, and over and under.

Calendars and clocks keep track of passing time as the Huskies prepare for and compete in the championship soccer game against the Falcons.

Introduces the concept of halves using a simple rhyming story about a brother and sister who do not want to share their food.

A simple story about four dogs at a dog show introduces the ordinal numbers: first, second, third, and fourth.

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.

As members of a swim team do laps to qualify for swim camp, readers can practice subtracting two-digit numbers to see how many laps are left to go.

A group of animal friends have fun at a pajama party while demonstrating activities that happen in a particular order or sequence.

An old map leads the members of the Elm Street Kids' Club to a buried time capsule.

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

The face painting booth at the school fair provides plenty of opportunities to count combinations of coins adding up to fifty.