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  • Game Time!

    Stuart J Murphy, Cynthia Jabar

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Game Time!Keep an eye on the clock as the Huskies and the Falcons gear up for their championship soccer match. Weeks, days, hours, minutes, and seconds--it's all game time!
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  • Coyotes All Around

    Stuart J. Murphy, Steve Bjorkman

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Aug. 14, 2003)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. A pack of coyotes tries to determine how many roadrunners and other creatures are in their vicinity, and while some count different groups and add their totals together, Clever Coyote rounds off and estimates.
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  • Dave's Down-To-Earth Rock Shop

    Stuart J. Murphy, Cat Bowman Smith

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, Feb. 1, 2000)
    As they consider sorting their rock collection by color, size, type, and hardness, Josh and Amy learn that the same objects can be organized in many different ways.
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  • More or Less

    Stuart J Murphy, David T Wenzel

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, March 1, 2005)
    Is your age more than 5? Is it less than 10? Eddie's got to guess. And he doesn't want to be wrong! Eddie has a booth at the school fair, guessing people's ages. He hasn't guessed wrong yet, but if he does, he gets dunked. Can Eddie keep guessing right -- and keep from getting wet? Comparing whole numbers and understanding what's more and what's less are a big part of Eddie's strategy, and an important math skill for young readers to learn.
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  • Too Many Kangaroo Things to Do!

    Stuart J Murphy, Kevin O'Malley

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Aug. 1, 1996)
    It's Kangaroo's birthday, but no one will play with him--not the emu, the platypuses, the koalas, or even the dingos. They all have too many things to do. They're using multiplication to figure out just how many things they have to do to plan a big surprise for Kangaroo.
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  • The Penny Pot

    Stuart J Murphy, Lynne Cravath

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Sept. 1, 1998)
    Stuart J. Murphy travels all over the United States talking to thousands of kids. And you'll never believe what they talk about: MATH! Stuart shows kids that they use math every day -- to share a pizza, spend their allowance, and even sort socks. Stuart writes funny stories about math -- andif you read his books, you'll start to see the fun in math, too.

  • Elevator Magic

    Stuart J. Murphy, G. Brian Karas

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Aug. 16, 1997)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Explains the concept of subtraction through a rhyming text about a descending elevator.
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  • Less Than Zero

    Stuart J. Murphy, Frank Remkiewicz

    Library Binding (Harper, April 9, 2009)
    Perry the Penguin needs 9 clams to buy an ice scooter -- but he's not very good at saving. As Perry earns, spends, finds, loses, and borrows clams, a simple line graph demonstrates the concept of negative numbers.
    K

  • Super Sand Castle Saturday

    Stuart J. Murphy, Julia Gorton

    Hardcover (Harpercollins Childrens Books, Jan. 1, 1999)
    Introduces new readers to the concept of nonstandard measurement as three friends--Laura, Juan, and Sarah--compete in a sand castle building contest and measure their castles with spoons, shovels, and bare feet.
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  • Let's Fly a Kite

    Stuart J Murphy, Brian Floca

    Library Binding (Perfection Learning, Sept. 1, 2000)
    Let's Fly a KiteWhen Bob and Hannah split something, the two pieces had better be symmetrical--exactly the same. BUt to fly their kite, they'll have to learn something new--cooperation!
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  • Captain Invincible And The Space Shapes

    Stuart J. Murphy, Stuart Murphy

    School & Library Binding (Turtleback Books, Aug. 21, 2001)
    FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. Captain Invincible, accompanied by loyal space-dog, Comet, battles his way through outer space, relying on his knowledge of three-dimensional shapes, including cones, cubes, cylinders, and spheres, to make it safely back to Earth.
    K

  • Room for Ripley

    Stuart J. Murphy, Sylvie Wickstrom

    Hardcover (Harpercollins Childrens Books, Sept. 1, 1999)
    Uses a story about a young boy who is getting a fish bowl ready for his new pet to introduce various units of liquid measure
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