Books in Math in Our World Level 3 series

On Game Day at Valley Elementary School, the students toss coins or two-color counters and number cubes, and use spinners to discover which outcomes are most likely to occur, and make up their own games using these devices.

The campers at a sports camp use division to make up teams, to schedule playing times, and to plan the heats in the hundred-meter race.

When a young girl makes a trip to the zoo with her aunt, she amuses herself by comparing the numbers of different groups of animals that she sees.

The students in the King School computer club look for pictures of buildings shaped like different geometric solids to put on their Web site.

A simple story of a trip through the city shows common urban objects for young readers to count.

On Game Day at Valley Elementary School, the students toss coins or two-color counters and number cubes, and use spinners to discover which outcomes are most likely to occur, and make up their own games using these devices.

For an article on national parks in the school paper, Sarah makes a timeline of their founding dates, and tables of the heights of mountains in different parks and waterfalls at Yosemite, and of the types of animals in two different parks.

The children in the neighborhood are planning a party and use graphs to decide which drinks, food, and games their guests will enjoy most.

When it starts to rain while they are playing in the park, four children decide to make a model of the park with objects of similar shape that they find at home.

The students in Mr. Kent's class divide into teams to prepare for a party to celebrate the hundredth day of school and use their counting and adding skills to get everything ready.

The busy children of Park Street have things to do at every hour and half hour from 7:00 in the morning to 8:30 at night, and analog and digital clocks in the corners of the illustrations reveal the times for all their activities.

In order to put a fence around their school garden, members of the Lewis School garden club use their division skills to figure out how much wood they need.