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Game Time: Level 3
Stuart J. Murphy, Cynthia Jabar
Library Binding (HarperCollins, Aug. 1, 2000)Calendars and clocks keep track of passing time as the Huskies prepare for and compete in the championship soccer game against the Falcons.
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Same Old Horse
Stuart J. Murphy, Steve Bjorkman
Hardcover (HarperCollins, Sept. 1, 2005)Hankie always does the same things at the same time. He even sneezes on schedule. The other horses tease him. What a bore! Hankie's determined to prove that he can be unpredictable if he wants to -- but can he? Or will he just end up being the same old Hankie? Horses, humor, and a great big sneeze all combine to explain how to look at past events and make predictions about the future, an important element of logical thinking.
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Henry the Fourth
Stuart J. Murphy, Scott Nash
Paperback (Harpercollins Childrens Books, Jan. 1, 1999)A simple story about four playful dogs at a dog show introduces beginning readers to the ordinal numbers: first, second, third, and fourth.
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Rabbit's pajama party
Stuart J Murphy
Paperback (Scholastic Inc, Jan. 1, 2000)At Rabbit's pajama party everyone is eating pizza, telling scary stories, and curling up in their sleeping bags. And what these friends do first, next, and last demonstrates the math concepts of sequencing -- the logical order of events.
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100 Days of Cool
Stuart J. Murphy, John Bendall-Brunello
Hardcover (HarperCollins, Dec. 23, 2003)Mrs. Lopez wants her class to celebrate 100 days of school. But Yoshi, Scott, Nathan, and Maggie didn't hear her right. They thought she said 100 days of cool!Now Mrs. Lopez says that if the four kids can be cool for 100 days in a row, the whole class can have the coolest party ever. Can they come up with 100 ideas? Cool socks . . . cool jokes . . . cool costumes . . . cool hats . . . cool volunteer projects . . . and all the other cool things that can be done with the numbers 1-100 make this the coolest math book around.
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Shark Swimathon: Subtracting Two Digit Numbers
Stuart J. Murphy
Library Binding (Demco Media, Feb. 1, 2002)As members of a swim team do laps to qualify for swim camp, readers can practice subtracting two-digit numbers to see how many laps are left to go.
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The Penny Pot: Level 3, Counting Coins
Stuart J. Murphy, Lynne Woodcock Cravath
Library Binding (HarperCollins, Oct. 1, 1998)The face painting booth at the school fair provides plenty of opportunities to count combinations of coins adding up to fifty
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Bigger, Better, Best!
Stuart J. Murphy, Marsha Winborn
Library Binding (HarperCollins, Aug. 20, 2002)Jenny and Jeff are driving their little sister, Jill, crazy, and now that the family is moving into their new house it's worse than ever. Who'll have the bigger window? Who'll have the bigger bedroom? How can they measure the space so that they'll know for sure?Jenny and Jeff must calculate area to settle their debate. This simple geometry concept will prove once and for all whose room is bigger -- but maybe Jill can show her squabbling siblings that bigger isn't always better!
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The Grizzly Gazette
Stuart J. Murphy, Steve Bjorkman
Hardcover (HarperCollins, Dec. 24, 2002)It's the last week of Camp Grizzly, and the campers are preparing to elect a mascot. Each day the Grizzly Gazette takes a poll to see who has the biggest percentage of the vote so far. Is it Sophie? Is it Daniel? Or could it be Corey, the new entry in the race? Corey's determined to do her best. But she's got to make up for lost time. Can she win out over Daniel and Sophie? No one will know for sure until the last vote is counted! A lively story about summer camp fun will help young readers understand both percentage and voting!
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The Greatest Gymnast of All: Opposites, Level 1
Stuart J. Murphy, Cynthia Jabar
Library Binding (HarperCollins, Sept. 1, 1998)While performing an energetic gymnastic routine, Zoe demonstrates such spatial opposites as on and off, inside and outside, and over and under
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Less Than Zero
Stuart J. Murphy, Frank Remkiewicz
Hardcover (HarperCollins, Aug. 19, 2003)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.
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Probably Pistachio
Stuart J. Murphy, Marsha Winborn
Library Binding (HarperCollins, Jan. 1, 2001)Readers are introduced to the concept of probability in a story about a boy named Jack who has a day in which nothing goes right. Simultaneous.
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