Math for the real world

Simple text and photos show that bigger containers can hold more contents than smaller ones, using apples, books, water, and other items in examples.

Discusses how to tell time within the context of a baker's day at work, covering the process of making bread and cookies.

Teaches children how to add dollars and cents up to ten dollars without regrouping through a story about a trip to the grocery store.

Simple text and photographs introduce how a thermometer works.

Photographs and simple text discuss greater than, less than, and equal to through examples of ticket cost, scores, players, and time left at a football game.

Photographs and simple text teaches early readers about the values of the basic forms of American currency.

Examines the unique combinations of numbers that make up magic squares, and describes an ancient magic square and one developed by Benjamin Franklin.

Uses a timeline of a frog's life cycle to teach children sequential order and about frogs.

Explores the value and importance of the number zero throughout history around the world. Discusses early counting systems and explains how the Babylonians were the first people to use a place-value system and to invent the concept of zero. Also examines Greek math, Hindu math advances, the Mayan number system, and how zero is used in the modern world.