Helen Plum Library

A boy has trouble deciding how to spend the quarter he gets from the Tooth Fairy

Introduces pattern recognition as a sock searches the house for its lost mate

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

A series of rhymes illustrates different ways to count to 100 such as by adding the ten toes of ten children or ninety-nine train cars plus one caboose

Patterns are found in math, reading, science, music, art, dance, and poetry--and in the world all around us.

As a farmer tries to find the correct number of mittens for his various farmyard animals, the reader is introduced to odd and even numbers

On the last day of school Brad keeps running into bad luck, but by the end of the day he realizes that there is always a chance things will get better Brad is ready for summer vacation, but on his last day of school he discovers an important lesson. His chances of getting what he wants may not be based on luck. By estimating and calculating before making choices, he can increase the likelihood of those choices being the ones he wants. This title...

In recent years, neuroscientists have discovered that the heart has its own intelligence, a complex independent nervous system that is referred to as 'the brain in the heart.' Getting the heart into a positive rhythm can directly send a signal to the brain, allowing the two to synchronize and literally transform anger, frustration, and irritation into compassion, empathy, and calm. From Transforming Anger, learn how thoughts and feelings get stored...

This book illustrates how to understand and represent numbers in the billions through learning about the Hubble Space telescope. Includes a concise explanation of how telescopes operate, a brief history of telescopes, along with colorful photographs accompanied by word problems and explanations.

Kids learn the ingredients in multiplication number sentences--factors, products, multiplication signs and equal signs--and master multiplication tips including ordering factors, fact families, multiplying by one and zero, skip counting, and using patterns. Physical arrays of everyday objects, place value blocks, and hundreds of charts help students easily visualize and solve multiplication problems. The concepts of prime and composite numbers are...