Math English

A mango...is just one thing. But if I chop it in two, then chop the half in two, and keep on chopping, I get more and more bits, on and on, endlessly, to an infinity I could never ever reach. In 1887 in India, a boy named Ramanujan is born with a passion for numbers. He sees numbers in the squares of light pricking his thatched roof and in the beasts dancing on the temple tower. He writes mathematics with his finger in the sand, across the pages of his notebooks, and with chalk on the temple floor.

Brian Cleary brings his trademark sense of humor to the subject of measuring length. A rhyming text filled with funny examples explains how to use and compare metric and US customary units of length. Listeners are also introduced to the tools they need to measure length - rulers, metersticks, and more.

In this wacky look at weight, Brian P. Cleary introduces essential measurement units - from grams to pounds to tons. The comical cats of the wildly popular Words Are CATegorical® series show how to measure trucks, trains, ducks, cranes, and more. Peppy rhymes and kid-friendly examples make light work of this heavy topic.

These simple bedtime stories are filled with number sequences and repetitive counting poems to help with early counting and number skills. These fun audiobooks will have your children counting in no time.

This fantastic audiobook contains over 100 puzzles and brainteasers designed to really test that grey matter. From cunningly worded traps to seriously tricky lateral thinking problems, narrator Kent Harris will likely have you scratching your head...until he reveals the answer, at which point - of course - you’ll claim you knew it all along!

Eva Walker is a 17-year-old math genius. And if that doesn't do wonders for her popularity, there's another thing that makes it even worse: When she touches another person or anything that belongs to them - from clothes to textbooks to cell phones - she sees a vision of their emotions. She can read a person's fears and anxieties, their secrets and loves...and what they have yet to learn about calculus. This is helpful for her work as a math tutor, but it means she can never get close to people. Eva avoids touching anyone and everyone.

Ma has made a dozen delicious cookies. It should be plenty for her two children. But then the doorbell rings - and rings and rings. Each ring of the doorbell brings more friends to share the delicious cookies Ma has made.

In this playful look at patterns, Brian P. Cleary and Brian Gable provide many examples of repeating sequences of shapes, colors, objects, and more. The comical cats of the wildly popular Words Are CATegorical® series show how patterns can be found all around us. Peppy rhymes and kid-friendly examples make pattern practice fun!

Nan surveys her class to find out what types of pets they have. See how she creates a bar graph to share her results.

This fun and colorful book will help your child to easily learn about their numbers like never before. Each page contains different types of sea animals that will surely keep your children imagination riveted while learning about numbers.

Dan, Emma, and Ron want to compare how many apples they picked. Listen and learn how to use a picture graph to tell who picked the most.

Rub-a-dub-dub! Chub the fish loves to scrub in his tub. One day his friends come to call. They want to splish and splash too. Can a tub so small hold them all?

Flatland, like our own world, is on the verge of the millenium. On the last day of the year 1999, a Square—hitherto undistinguished from the other shapes of his two-dimensional world—receives the Gospel of Three Dimensions, revealed to that world's flat inhabitants only once every a thousand years. Transformed by a truth he is unable to conceal, he is promptly condemned as a heretic.

Part motivation, part preparation, SAT Prep Talk gives you the tools and techniques to conquer the new SAT. Best of all, it's downloadable, so you can take it anywhere!

With the help of Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician, the concepts of a million, a billion and a trillion are not quite so intimidating. This book reveals how big a bowl would be needed to hold a million goldfish, or how many years it would take to count to a million.

The wacky fun continues as a young boy awakens to find a half head of hair. After chugging down his glass of milk that's two-thirds gooey paste, he and his friend are off to camp for a day of fraction fun and an out-of-this world soccer game. The first two books in the series, One Odd Day and My Even Day, won Learning Magazine's 2008 Teachers' Choice Award for Children's Books.

Ben needs to find out what food to grill at the cookout. Examine his tally chart to see how many people want hot dogs, hamburgers, or chicken.