Talking Hands teaches beginning readers basic American Sign Language in a fun and informative way. Photographs and illustrations help the audience to view signing as easy and exciting. Days and Times introduces kids to signs associated with simple scheduling.
How did August get it's name? What are some famous holidays celebrated during this month? Were any famous people born in August? Such questions and more are answered in this trivia-packed book.
Strategic Statistics digs into the statistics and analytics of sports and how they're used to help make major decisions, professional careers based on sports statistics, and records held as a result of examining sports statistics and analytics. Using colorful and engaging infographics, the Sports-Graphics series breaks down the STEM concepts behind a range of popular sports. Includes charts, graphs, and maps to provide key content in an appealing and accessible way.
Infographics: Angles of Achievement covers the angles and arcs in sports as well as records held as a result of utilizing the optimal angles. Uses engaging infographics to break down the STEM concepts behind a range of popular sports for developing readers.
Infographics: Every Second Counts covers the timing of sports, including: timing of each sport, speed and velocity, and how shaving off time can win the game. Uses engaging infographics to break down the STEM concepts behind a range of popular sports for developing readers.
In Guess It!, early fluent readers learn about the usefulness of estimating by exploring a variety of real-world examples. Vibrant, full-color photos and carefully leveled text encourage young readers to look around them for opportunities to practice estimating.Infographics illustrate key concepts, and an activity offers kids an opportunity to extend discovery. Children can learn more about estimating using our safe search engine that provides relevant, age-appropriate websites. Guess It! also features reading tips for teachers and parents, a table of contents, a glossary, and an index.
Math can be fun, fantastic, and even magical. Fun, hands-on activities bring STEAM learning to life. Simple, step-by-step instructions paired with colorful photos makes learning fun. Follow along with five magical math tricks. Then, learn how mathematicians make magic just like you!
During recess, friends learn about place value by working together to add and subtract by tens on the playground at school.
Friends share their strategies for figuring out how many objects remain as some are taken away.
A group of friends play a game on their way to school by counting forward and backward by twos, fives, and tens.
Follow a group of friends as they discover when it is time for meals and activities using a clock with a face as well as a digital clock.
How many of your classmates like to eat apples? This is information we call data. Read along as friends gather data at school and organize it to show the information in helpful ways.
Friends learn different ways to construct sets of ten and find it helps them get better at working with numbers and place value.
Class 301 is holding a school sale to buy a super-calculator. The class uses subtraction to find out how many items have been sold. They use column subtraction to figure out differences in different ways, as well as a number line. Simple sentences and easy-to-understand exercises help make learning about subtraction understandable and fun.
The students of Class 301 are counting how many vegetables they have grown in the garden. They use counting in groups to speed up the process, and a number line to help. They count small numbers in ones, then larger groups in twos, fives, tens, and hundreds. The kids save so much time that they have a picnic! Simple sentences and easy-to-understand exercises help make learning about groups understandable and fun.
Class 301 has won a real truckload of number cubes. Fractions Frank, the caretaker, has found some boxes that hold different amounts of cubes--ones, tens, hundreds, and thousands. The children see how the smaller boxes can all fit into the larger ones. They put these groups in columns to create a numeral. And just when they think they are done, another truck pulls up and they have to start again! Simple sentences and easy-to-understand exercises help make learning about place value understandable and fun.
Professor Tangent is very forgetful and has accidentally put the lunch orders for the class in the paper shredder. The class collects all the little strips, and they add up all the different sections to make sure the total equals the number of kids in the class. They create a number line to get the total. But Chef Addie just made them all pizza instead! Simple sentences and easy-to-understand exercises help make learning about addition understandable and fun.
In this rhyming counting book, young readers will venture alongside a young boy as he climbs a tree. When he gets to the top, he's excited to take in the view. But an unexpected encounter with a buzzing beehive sends him back down more quickly than he went up!
Jesse is having problems with her bike, but luckily, there's a local contest to win a bike taking place. To win, Jesse must use math skills to guess how many jelly beans are in a big jar. Find out how Jesse uses math skills to create a secret formula to solve The Secret in the Jelly Bean Jar.
How does trade work? In the Econo-Graphics Jr. series, young readers will examine economy-related issues from many angles, all portrayed through visual elements. Income, budgeting, investing, supply and demand, global markets, inflation, and more are covered. Each book highlights pandemic-era impacts as well. Created with developing readers in mind, charts, graphs, maps, and infographics provide key content in an engaging and accessible way. Books include an activity, glossary, index, suggested reading and websites, and a bibliography.
Why is the stock market important? In the Econo-Graphics Jr. series, young readers will examine economy-related issues from many angles, all portrayed through visual elements. Income, budgeting, investing, supply and demand, global markets, inflation, and more are covered. Each book highlights pandemic-era impacts as well. Created with developing readers in mind, charts, graphs, maps, and infographics provide key content in an engaging and accessible way. Books include an activity, glossary, index, suggested reading and websites, and a bibliography.
How do supply chains work? In the Econo-Graphics Jr. series, young readers will examine economy-related issues from many angles, all portrayed through visual elements. Income, budgeting, investing, supply and demand, global markets, inflation, and more are covered. Each book highlights pandemic-era impacts as well. Created with developing readers in mind, charts, graphs, maps, and infographics provide key content in an engaging and accessible way. Books include an activity, glossary, index, suggested reading and websites, and a bibliography.
Why is it important to understand supply and demand? In the Econo-Graphics Jr. series, young readers will examine economy-related issues from many angles, all portrayed through visual elements. Income, budgeting, investing, supply and demand, global markets, inflation, and more are covered. Each book highlights pandemic-era impacts as well. Created with developing readers in mind, charts, graphs, maps, and infographics provide key content in an engaging and accessible way. Books include an activity, glossary, index, suggested reading and websites, and a bibliography.
Why is it important to understand scarcity? In the Econo-Graphics Jr. series, young readers will examine economy-related issues from many angles, all portrayed through visual elements. Income, budgeting, investing, supply and demand, global markets, inflation, and more are covered. Each book highlights pandemic-era impacts as well. Created with developing readers in mind, charts, graphs, maps, and infographics provide key content in an engaging and accessible way. Books include an activity, glossary, index, suggested reading and websites, and a bibliography.
How does inflation work? In the Econo-Graphics Jr. series, young readers will examine economy-related issues from many angles, all portrayed through visual elements. Income, budgeting, investing, supply and demand, global markets, inflation, and more are covered. Each book highlights pandemic-era impacts as well. Created with developing readers in mind, charts, graphs, maps, and infographics provide key content in an engaging and accessible way. Books include an activity, glossary, index, suggested reading and websites, and a bibliography.
