Discovering "Fracton numbers" at a fair where items keep disappearing, Sir Cumference and Lady Di learn an important lesson about the comparative size of fractions while setting a numberic trap fo a thief.
Explores the history of mankind's use of mathematics to explain the world and its processes and outlines an assortment of ways in which math is put to use in real-world situations in the present.
"Thousands of years ago, people used pebbles and sand to do simple math. Read How to Make and Use an Abax to learn how to do addition and subtraction with a tool made out of beans and clay.".
An imaginative mouse who likes to read heroic fantasy novels finds herself on the school math team as it prepares to compete for the coveted Golden Slide Rule.