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  • The Sundae Scoop

    Stuart J. Murphy, Cynthia Jabar

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Dec. 24, 2002)
    Lauren, James, and Emily are helping Winnie the cafeteria lady serve up ice-cream sundaes at the school picnic. (Winnie's cat Marshmallow is helping, too.) With 2 flavors of ice cream, 2 different sauces, and 2 kinds of toppings, they can make everybody's favorite sundae. That is, until Lauren spills the sprinkles, and Marshmallow licks up the caramel! How many different combinations can you make from a certain number of items? This important math skill is easy to understand in a story kids will absolutely eat up.
    K

  • Missing Mittens

    Stuart J. Murphy, G. Brian Karas

    Library Binding
    Missing MittensEvery animal on Farmer Bill's farm is missing one mitten.Readers can investigate odd and even numbers as they unravel this mitten mystery!
    F

  • Super Sand Castle Saturday

    Stuart J. Murphy, Julia Gorton

    Library Binding (Paw Prints 2009-07-10, April 9, 2009)
    One Saturday at the beach, Laura, Juan, andSarah decide to have a sand castle contest. As the tide rises,the walls get longer, the towers get taller, and the moats getdeeper. The friends measure their sand castles with spoons,shovels, and bare feet until Larry the lifeguard and his tapemeasure surprise them all.
    K

  • Treasure Map

    Stuart J. Murphy, Tricia Tusa

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Sept. 14, 2004)
    Matthew has found a treasure map, and soon the Elm Street Kids' Club is off on a quest. The map guides them into a wonderful, magical world, but it's the real-life math skills of understanding distance, scale, direction, and symbols that will help Matthew, Sheri, Meg, Danny, and Jed -- with some assistance from Petey the parrot -- find a treasure hidden fifty years ago.
    K

  • 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.
    L

  • 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!
    K

  • 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.
    K

  • The Grizzly Gazette

    Stuart J. Murphy, Steve Bjorkman

    Library Binding (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!
    M

  • Room for Ripley

    Stuart J. Murphy, Sylvie Wickstrom

    Library Binding (HarperCollins, Sept. 8, 1999)
    Carlos can't wait to get his very own fish, a guppy named Ripley. But first he has to make Ripley a good home, and that includes filling up the fish bowl with water. Readers will learn about cups, pints, quarts, and gallons as they find out just how much water it will take before there's room for Ripley.
    L

  • Safari Park

    Stuart J. Murphy, Steve Bjorkman

    Hardcover (HarperCollins, Dec. 18, 2001)
    It's 4 tickets for the Treetop Coaster! Just 2 for the Elephant Twirl! five cousins each have 20 tickets to spend at Safari, and a little algebra will tell them how many rides they can try. But who will dare the death-defying Terrible Tarantula?
    M

  • 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

  • Betcha!: Estimating

    Stuart J. Murphy, S. D. Schindler

    Library Binding
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