The hungry Pig family learns about money and buying power as they turn the house upside down looking for enough money to buy dinner at the local restaurant.

Concepts of price and quantity enter the picture when Mrs. Pig wins a five-minute shopping spree at the supermarket on Halloween night.

Borrows themes from famous poems and flips them on their head to create humorous verses and riddles in a collection of math-based problem-solving parodies.

Introduces young readers to the sciences, with a creative twist. Math and science educational pages are interspersed with cool structure activities that offer practical applications of the information students learn in class.

A trickster dumped a complicated concoction of chemicals from the science lab into the school's fountain, and now the fish are in danger! Stacy and her friends must use multiplication and division to solve the who, what, and when behind . . . The Fishy Fountain.

The three most basic shapes -- squares, triangles and circles -- are all around us, from the natural world to the one we've engineered. Shapes in Math, Science and Nature introduces young readers to the basics of geometry and reveals its applications at home, school and everywhere in between. Includes puzzles and activities.

"Inquisitive mammoths . . . [cover] the basics of numbers, operations, geometry, measurement, and . . . more"--

Discusses young Per taking a mathmatical adventure.

Uses charts and recipes for bear milk prepared for two baby polar bears born in a zoo to teach about fractions.

Growing up in Hungary during WWI, Erdos tried school but chafed at the rules and convinced his mother that he should study at home. He was fascinated by numbers from an early age, and by the time he was 20, he was known as The Magician from Budapest. Unable to do common tasks such as cooking, laundry, or driving, he spent his adult life flying around the world, staying with other mathematicians, and working collaboratively on challenging math problems....