MathStart level 2

MathStart level 2
MathStart. Level 2

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Description

A young girl uses data-collecting and problem-solving skills to determine where her family should go for a vacation.

3) Elevator magic

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[1997]

Description

Explains the concept of subtraction through a rhyming text about a descending elevator.

4) Animals on board

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Introduces simple addition through a rhyming text about animals being delivered for a merry-go-round.

5) Spunky monkeys on parade

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[1999]

Description

In the Monkey Day Parade, monkey majorettes, cyclists, tumblers, and band members create a spectacle as they move along in groups of two, three, and four.

6) Super sand castle Saturday

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[1999]

Description

Introduces the concept of nonstandard measurement as three friends compete in a sand castle building contest.

7) Let's fly a kite

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Two squabbling siblings learn about symmetry when their babysitter helps them build and fly a kite.

8) Pepper's journal: a kitten's first year

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[2000]

Description

Lisa keeps a journal of her new kitten's first year.

9) Captain Invincible and the space shapes

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[2001]

Description

While piloting his spaceship through the skies, Captain Invincible encounters three-dimensional shapes, including cubes, cylinders, and pyramids.

10) Probably pistachio

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2001

Description

Readers are introduced to the concept of probability in a story about a boy who has a day in which nothing goes right.

11) Bigger, better, best!

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[2002]

Description

Jenny and Jeff are driving their little sister nuts with their contest fighting over who is best, and now that they are moving into a new house, they are arguing over whose room is bigger, so the children work together to calculate area to settle the debate.

12) Racing around

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[2002]

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Introduces the geometry concept perimeter as Mike trains for and then enters a 15-kilometer bike race.

13) Coyotes all around

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[2003]

Description

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.

14) The sundae scoop

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2003

15) 100 days of cool

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Four students arrive on the first day of school looking cool and their teacher challenges them to keep it up as they count down one hundred days to a cool celebration.

16) Tally O'Malley

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Murphy, Stuart J.

17) More or less

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[2005]

Description

Teaches children to compare numbers by telling the story of Eddie, who uses his knowledge of numbers to outsmart the people who come to his game booth at a school picnic.

18) Same old Horse

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[2005]

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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.

19) Mall mania

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