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: 0970823010
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #653,327 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 #7, Mapping, the Monsters are throwing a party and have sent out invitations. One of their guests, Binary Bill has no idea how to get to their castle from his computer shop. Multiplex draws a free form map with just a curving line and emails it to him. This doesn’t work and Binary asks for landmarks. Multiplex quickly adds a few things that can be seen on route – but he doesn’t draw them in the right order. This leads to confusion and a further refining of the map. Ultimately the Monsters leave the castle and go on site to label all the streets in their neighborhood. Then Mina flies up above Monster Land to compare the map to the actual territory. Our field trip visit is with a school bus driver who explains how he works with maps in order to pick up children.

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