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Build A Burrito: 
A counting book in English and Spanish
By Denise Vega
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One round tortilla/ Una tortilla redonda, two scoops of rice/ dos cucharadas de arroz… As they turn the colorful, shaped pages of this book to add ingredients to a burrito, children can practice counting from 1 to 10 in both English and Spanish. Hardcover, 24 pages. Ages 4-8.
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Manufacturer/Publisher:
Scholastic |
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Fruit Salad: A Juicy Fraction Game
From Child's Play International
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While fractions are typically difficult to master, this game makes learning them as easy as eating a fruit salad! Includes four fruit salad plates, a fraction die, and 15 pieces of fruit: 2 pear halves, 3 apple thirds, 4 orange quarters, and 6 melon sixths. One side of each card is marked with its corresponding fraction. Four rules of play are offered: Greedy Guests, A Balanced Diet, Whole Fruit, and rules for beginners, with different objectives to win yet all centered around rolling the fraction die and picking the proper fraction piece and placing it on your salad plate. Provides a simple and fun introduction to fractions in both abstract and concrete form. Prepares players for Vegetable Soup: More Fun With Fractions! Ages 6 and up.
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Manufacturer/Publisher:
Child's Play International |
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Vegetable Soup: More Fun with Fractions!
From Child's Play International
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You think you know your fractions? Try one of the many games that Vegetable Soup offers and see how well you know your stuff! Includes 48 cards representing fractions of onions, tomatoes, pumpkins and cabbages. There are 12 cards for each vegetable, as follows: 1 half, 4 quarters, 2 thirds and 5 sixths. Three rules for practice games will get players ready for one of the following three games: Know Your Onions, Soup of the Day, and Super Soup. These games provide experience in understanding that a whole can be made from different combinations of fractions. Players who master Vegetable Soup will be familiar with fractions of concrete objects and are ready to handle fractions as abstract numbers. Ages 6 and up.
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Manufacturer/Publisher:
Child's Play International |
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Eating Pairs: Counting Fruits and Vegetables by Twos
By Sarah L. Schuette
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Eating Pairs is full of colorful fruits and vegetables just waiting to be counted by twos. Learning how to count is especially fun when you have vivid photographs and colorful foods to interest young children. Hardcover, 32 pages. Ages 2-5.
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Manufacturer/Publisher:
Capstone Press
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Just Enough Carrots
By Stuart J. Murphy
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While grocery shopping, rabbit encourages mom to buy more carrots, fewer peanuts and NO worms. As mom compares what she is buying to what the other animal customers buy, this clever book clearly introduces early math concepts including more, less and same. Includes tips and activities to extend the concepts. Softcover, 40 pages. Ages 2-6.
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Manufacturer/Publisher:
Harper Collins
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Groceries for Grandpa
(A Read-It! Readers Book)
By Susan Blackaby
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Mom puts Meg in charge of doing the shopping and draws her a map of the grocery store, labels the aisle's and puts symbols where things are that they need - like strawberries, butter, and milk. Using the key, Meg finds everything and realizes how easy it is to read a map! Intended to improve geography and map skills, this Read-It! Reader combines simple sentences with useful illustrations. Library Binding, 32 pages. Ages 4-8.
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Manufacturer/Publisher:
Picture Window Books |
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A Star in My Orange: Looking for Nature's Shapes
By Dana Meachen Rau
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Colorful, well-focused photos of scenes in nature and simple text explain how various shapes and patterns can be found all around in nature. From a star in the sky, to one in an orange half, a starfish, and snowflake, Rau looks to nature for inspiration. A great read-a-loud presenting fundamental forms that children can observe in nature. Softcover, 32 pages. Ages 4-8.
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Manufacturer/Publisher:
Lerner Books
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Each Orange Had 8 Slices
By Paul Giganti, Jr.
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If you had two juicy oranges and each orange had eight slices, and each slice had two small seeds, how many oranges...slices...and seeds would you have in all? This idea fills the pages of this multiplication, counting and adding activity storybook. Colorful illustrations of kids on tricycles, fat cows, clowns with balloons and more will get young readers excited about math. Explore the many math puzzles hiding in the world around us! Softcover, 32 pages. Ages 5 and up.
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Manufacturer/Publisher:
Harper Collins
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Mary Clare Likes to Share
(A Math Reader)
By Joy Hulme
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This lyrical lesson not only helps young readers with basic reading skills, but they sharpen their counting skills and are introduced to basic fractions as Mary Clare reluctantly divides her snacks to share with all her friends. Softcover, 32 pages. Ages 3-7.
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Manufacturer/Publisher:
Random House
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Bean Thirteen
By Matthew McElligott
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Flora and Ralph, two little bugs, are out picking beans for dinner when Flora goes to pick their thirteenth bean. "Don't do it!" shouts Ralph - insisting that thirteen is an unlucky number. Flora picks it anyway and splits the beans into two equal piles but there is one left over – “the unlucky bean thirteen!” Ralph insists. Flora invites some friends over, but even in three equal piles, four, even five equal piles - there is still one left over! Will Flora and Ralph ever figure out the mystery of bean thirteen? A great story for practicing math! Hardcover, 32 pages. Ages 4-8.
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Manufacturer/Publisher:
Penguin Putnam
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