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The Case of the missing zebra stripes

1992
A collection of stories, poems, riddles, games, and hands-on activities focusing on the mathematical aspects of a trip to the zoo.

How do octopi eat pizza pie?

pizza math
1992
A collection of stories, poems, games, and activities, all focusing on food, introduce such basic mathematical skills as number awareness, addition, subtraction, and estimation.

See you later escalator!

mall math
1993
Stories, poems, riddles, games, and hands-on activities introduce early math skills, focusing on the mathematics one might encounter on a trip to the shopping mall.

Play ball

sports math
1993
Uses stories, poems, riddles, games, and hands-on activities, all related to various sports, to teach early math skills.

Mad about math

1992
Presents directions for more than twenty activities that demonstrate concepts of mathematics.

Numbers

1997
With a mixture of facts, experiments, and tricks, shows how we can measure the speed of light, fly to the moon, or buy things in a shop with only ten numbers.

Equal shmequal

2005
In order to have fun at a game of tug-of-war, forest animals balance the teams by using a see-saw.

Counting on Frank

1991
A boy and his dog present amusing counting, size comparison, and mathematical facts.

One grain of rice

a mathematical folktale
1997
A reward of one grain of rice doubles day by day into millions of grains of rice when a selfish raja is outwitted by a clever village girl.

Math for all seasons

mind-stretching math riddles
2002
Contains twelve riddles, each paired with a color illustration, that together pose math puzzles based on the seasons of the year. Includes an answer key.

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