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: 1887028145
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #575,637 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 #5, Geometry, the Monsters decide to create a model of their town and call it Mini-Monster Land. But in order to make an accurate model they need to take a good look at the different shapes and sizes of neighborhood buildings. At first they go to the roof of their castle to get an overview and wonder why buildings so far away are so tiny. “My thumb is bigger than Aunt Two Lips Flower Shop,” says Multiplex. The Monsters explore concepts of perspective and then visit the town to see buildings up close. They encounter a triangular prism, cube, cylinder, and octagonal prism and discover information about the characteristics of these shapes. Our field trip is to an architect who shows us his process for drawing, computerizing and modeling his new constructions.

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