Will she be late for school?Not if her trusty dog helps her along and keeps track of time by building time lines.Any child with a morning routine can learn how to build a time line, a concept thatcombines several important early math skills. Now, if only everyone had a dog likeSammie, no one would ever be late for school.

FOR ADULTS AND KIDSf you would like to have fun with the math concepts presented in The Best BugParade, here are a few suggestions:Read the story with the child and describe what is going on in each picture. Askquestions throughout the story, such as "Do the bugs look the same or do they lookdifferent?" and "How do they look different?"

“Kids, young and old, fall in love with math when they see how real-life and effortless it becomes thanks to these books.” --Kimberly D. Mueller, Ed.D., First Grade Teacher, Ashbrook School, Lumberton NJJack the Builder is perfect for teaching counting on, a step toward mastering addition, to pre-K through kindergarteners. Jack stacks up blocks high. Two make a robot, five make a boat, and fifteen make . . . whatever you can imagine!Kids will love ...

A visual-learning expert races up the charts and graphs math success with kid-friendly content sure to help with homework.Want to find the most popular meal in the cafeteria? Compare town sports enrollments? Or maybe you just want to know who burps the most in your family! Learn what line graphs, bar graphs, pie charts, and pictographs are and how and when to use them to represent data.Each project shows how to build a chart or graph and ties it all togethe...

The LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 Idea Book explores dozens of creative ways to build amazing mechanisms with the LEGO MINDSTORMS EV3 set. Each model includes a list of the required parts, minimal text, and colorful photographs from multiple angles so you can re-create it without the need for step-by-step instructions.You’ll learn to build cars with real suspension, steerable crawlers, ball-shooters, grasping robotic arms, and other creative marvels. Each model demonstrates simple...

Meet best pals Monkey and Robot. “Good-humored silliness prevails” (Publishers Weekly) in this snappy collection of four stories!Monkey and Robot are friends—the best kind. They simply belong together, and it never matters that silly Monkey is furry, or that gentle Robot can rust. What matters is their sharing: movies and popcorn, games of hide-and-seek, a fish tank for…a hippopotamus?Joining the ranks of such noteworthy pairs as Bert and ...

Super Turbo begins to suspect that Wonder Pig may not be so wonderful in the sixth Super Turbo book!You know Turbo as the hamster sidekick from the Captain Awesome books. But ever wonder what actually goes on when the last school bell rings and Turbo is left to his own devices? He’s SUPER TURBO and he’s here to fight evil in and out of the classroom!When Wonder Pig starts to act strange, Super Turbo gets suspicious. Is it possible that the superher...

A PICTURE BOOK STORY ABOUT FOOD ALLERGIES, JUST FOR KiDS- from a little robots perspective..."The Robot That Loved Chicken Soup" by Don Swann II which is a picture book story about food allergies from a little robot's perspective. The story is about a little robot named "Chip" who loves chicken soup but cannot eat it because robots cannot eat food.The book is intended to help small children understand about food allergies in a fun way

Monkey and Robot are the best of friends—and they have the best of adventures! This chapter book includes four (more!) playful stories.Monkey always gets in the wildest messes. And Robot is always there to help him out. After all, what are best friends for?“Readers looking for funny friendship stories but who think that Frog and Toad and other early readers are a tad too easy will find this unlikely duo just right,” says Horn Book Magazine about th...

Curious Pearl and her brother don't really like to do chores. They'd rather play with their kitten. But Dad looks serious, so Pearl and her brother come up with a solution. They build a contraption to help them with their chores. As they build, Pearl teaches her brother all about simple machines.