Math matters

Jen learns about closeness and the measurement of distance in inches, feet, yards, and miles when she has to share a room with her little sister Lucy.

When Oscar enters a number of contests he learns to divide both the costs and the rewards with his friends.

When Max misplaces his digital watch, he replaces it with an analog watch that he does not know how to read and finds himself late for everything.

Eight messy bunkmates try to figure out how to divide themselves into equal teams to clean up their cabin at camp.

On a family car trip, Molly uses mathematics to convince her younger brother that she has x-ray vision.

Ivy and Jessica's play date must be postponed again and again until finally, a week after it was originally planned, they are able to get together.

Two children search their apartment building from the first floor to the tenth, but their pet rabbit stays one hop ahead of them.

Henry wants to make sure that his older sister Harriet never gets more of anything than he does so he carefully keeps score until Harriet gets a cavity and he gets none and Henry discovers that sometimes zero is better than one.

When bossy Mia starts a newspaper, she refuses to publish Amy's survey results unless they are in pictograph form, which challenges Amy's math skills as well as their friendship.