With fun and engaging activities, Collecting Data outlines the steps to properly gathering and organizing data, which include observation, assessing the reliability of sources, and critically assessing data in order to draw reliable conclusions. Readers begin their journey toward data literacy by developing their sense of curiosity, and then conducting investigations, just like solving a mystery.
The massive volume of information available in the world today makes clarity a key component of data literacy. Using engaging activities and relevant, real-life examples, both digital and online, Bar Graphs is an important stop along the information highway of the 21st century. Visual representations of data are the quickest and clearest way to share information. This title teaches young readers how to organize and present data using bar graphs, and explains how to interpret data in this form.
In Line Graphs, readers will discover how to organize, present, and interpret data in this useful visual form. Relying on critical thinking to assess data, readers will learn how to recognize patterns and predict outcomes. Imaginative activities and meaningful, real-world examples, both digital and online, will stimulate young minds to “get in line” with the benefits of data literacy.
This informative book goes to great lengths to explain how scientists around the world use the metric system and related tools to help them compare, contrast, and analyze the measurement data they collect. Opportunities for hands-on learning make the content meaningful to readers as they refine their measuring skills.
This intriguing title will help children learn the importance of earning, saving, raising, and spending money. They will gain an understanding of how money can make a difference in peoples’ lives.
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.
Friends identify the shapes of things in their neighborhood, create new shapes by joining and separating existing ones, and discover why certain shapes are useful for building structures.
Friends learn different ways to construct sets of ten and find it helps them get better at working with numbers and place value.
Everything in nature has an opposite, or at least, that is the way people describe things that are the most unlike. This engaging book shows these extreme differences in sizes, colors and light, texture, smell and taste, the states of water, landforms, positions and directions on Earth, seasons, and even in people. An activity spread asks children to find opposite characteristics in a group of animals.
Leo is confused! Money is everywhere, but he never actually sees any. Then on his birthday, his aunt sends him some cash. What will Leo do with it?
Ava has inherited some money, and she can't wait to spend it! She wants a pair of cool new sneakers, but does she really need them? And where is the best place to buy them?
Marek wants a new kick scooter but he’s got to save up for it! Will Marek manage it—or will he be tempted by new clothes, toys, and treats?
Maya wants some extra money but her parents tell her she has to earn it! So Maya helps tidy up her neighbor’s garage. But it’s harder work than she thought. Will Maya finish the job and earn the money?
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.
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.
During recess, friends learn about place value by working together to add and subtract by tens on the playground at school.
Join a group of friends as they spot 3-D shapes around them, and learn how the shapes are used in different and exciting ways.
This title introduces basic concepts related to exchange and markets, including how communities meet challenges caused by scarcity, and factors that influence pricing. Readers are encouraged to look for examples of the goods and services produced and provided in their local communities.
Five dogs are together on a quilt until they leave one by one. Where do they go? Learn to subtract as the five Danny dogs disappear one by one.
Beginning readers identify things that are rectangles in this very simple 20-page reader. This book is a step-up from the paired book in the Discover Shapes series, RECTANGLE.
Beginning readers identify things that are diamonds in this very simple 20-page reader. This book is a step-up from the paired book in the Discover Shapes series, DIAMOND.
Beginning readers identify things that are triangles in this very simple 20-page reader. This book is a step-up from the paired book in the Discover Shapes series, TRIANGLE.
Beginning readers identify things that are ovals in this very simple 20-page reader. This book is a step-up from the paired book in the Discover Shapes series, OVAL.
Beginning readers identify things that are polygons in this very simple 20-page reader. This book is a step-up from the paired book in the Discover Shapes series, POLYGON.
