Product Details

• Directors: John Burstein
• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Number of tapes: 1
• VHS Release Date: January 1, 2001
• Run Time: 15 minutes
• ASIN: 0970823002
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #649,281 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Parent's Choice

"Appealing characters, lively music, gentle humor, and educational themes all add up to another winning series from PBS."

Product Description

Math Monsters™ is a brand new, beautifully animated public television series that is designed to help students, grades K through 2nd, learn mathematics at home and in the classroom. The series was produced in cooperation with The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics to meet and support their newly released national standards for K-2 math instruction. Math Monsters is an entertaining gateway to in-depth mathematical thinking and reasoning involving meaningful real world problems.

In Episode #6, Doubles and their Neighbors, the Monsters are going to perform in a circus. This provides a context for exploring doubles and their neighbors. One Monsters practices juggling and doubling the balls. Another Monster lifts a barbell with equal, and sometimes unequal, weights placed on both sides. Yet another Monster does magic, doubling birds and currency in her “doubling hat” Our field trip is to a shop keeper who explains how she uses mental math to help in her calculations.

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