MathStart level 2

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

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

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

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

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

At the picnic on the last day of school, James, his friends, and the cafeteria lady make a variety of ice cream sundaes, using mathematics to figure out how many different kinds they can create.

On a car trip to the beach, the O'Malley family children compete by playing games together. Annotation. The O'Malleys are off to the beach! But it's a long, hot, boring drive. What can Eric, Bridget, and Nell do to keep busy? Play tally games, of course -- counting up all the gray cars or green T-shirts they see. Whoever has the most marks at the end wins the game. Eric wins the first game. Bridget wins the second. It seems like poor Nell will never...