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Books in Mathstart, Level 3 series

  • Get Up and Go!

    Stuart J Murphy, Diane Greenseid

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Aug. 1, 1996)
    Brrring!! An alarm clock rings. It's time to get up and go! A smart dog builds timelines to keep track of the time going by as he helps a second grader get ready for school. There's not a moment's rest until her school bus is out of sight. Full color.
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  • The Best Bug Parade

    Stuart J. Murphy, Holly Keller

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, March 27, 1996)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Comparing and contrasting sizes is fun and easy in a basic math skills book that uses different and amusing drawings of bugs to teach and retain interest.
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  • Dave's down-to-earth rock shop

    Murphy, Stuart J.,, Cat Bowman Smith

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Jan. 5, 2000)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After gathering their rock collection for their rock expert friend, Dave, Josh, and Amy must separate the rocks using a classification system, in a brightly illustrated concept book for young readers.
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  • Sluggers' Car Wash

    Stuart J. Murphy, Barney Saltzberg

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, Aug. 20, 2002)
    The 21st Street Sluggers have a problem: Their team T-shirts are worn-out and dirty. They need new ones, but they have no money. How can they raise some? A car wash!The team gets to work. Lilly is scrubbing, Julia is squirting, Will is polishing, and CJ is kicking back and counting the dollars and cents. Pretty soon everyone is wet and tired -- except for CJ. But his teammates have a surprise in store for the master of the cash!Learning how to count money and make change are important real-life math skills -- but teamwork is the most valuable player in this sports story.
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  • Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do: Multiplying

    Stuart J. Murphy, Kevin O'Malley

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, Aug. 1, 1996)
    Disappointed when no one will play with him on his birthday, young Kangaroo is unaware that all of his friends are using multiplication to figure out how many things they have to do to arrange a big surprise party for him.
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  • Lemonade for Sale

    Stuart J. Murphy, Tricia Tusa

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, Jan. 1, 1998)
    Beginning readers are introduced to bar graphs as a group of children and their pet parrot go into business selling lemonade and keep a bar graph to track their sales.
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  • Animals On Board

    Stuart J. Murphy, R. W. Alley

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Aug. 8, 1998)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Introduces simple addition through a rhyming text about animals being delivered for a merry-go-round.
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  • A Fair Bear Share

    Stuart J. Murphy, John Speirs

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, Jan. 1, 1998)
    All the bears must gather their share of ingredients in order to make a Blue Ribbon Blueberry Pie, but when one bear does not do his fair share, the others wonder if they will ever be able to make their special dessert.
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  • Ready, Set, Hop!

    Stuart J. Murphy, Jon Buller

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, May 31, 1996)
    Frog friends, Matty and Moe, are off with a "Ready, Set, Hop!"They both made it to the rock, but who's in the lead? If Matty hopped 5 hops and Moe hopped 2 more hops than Matty, then the score is 5 to 7. But then they're off again. Any child who can add or subtract can build a simple equation, and Matty and Moe make it fun. As readers count along with Stuart J. Murphy and Jon Buller they will sharpen their problem solving skills and find out which frog is the better hopper.
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  • Just Enough Carrots

    Stuart J. Murphy, Frank Remkiewicz

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Aug. 16, 1997)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. 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.
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  • 100 Days Of Cool

    Stuart J. Murphy, John Bendall-brunello

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Dec. 23, 2003)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Four students arrive on the first day of school looking cool and their teacher challenges them to keep it up as they count down 100 days to a cool celebration.
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  • Dinosaur Deals

    Stuart J. Murphy, Heather Henson, Kevin O'Malley

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Aug. 21, 2001)
    Lets Make a Deal!Mike and his little brother, Andy, are headed for the Dinosaur Card Trading Fair. They're ready to wheel and deal. It's, 4 Stegosaurus for 1 Triceratops, and 2 Triceratops for 1 Allosaurus. But can they get what they really want: the tremendous, gigantic, ferocious, Tyrannosaurus rex? The math concept of equivalency -- understanding when values are equal -- is introduced in this fast-paced story as two brothers try to beat the clock and make the ultimate trade.
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