Douglas Alford

Numbers are important to our everyday lives.We count money, tell time & do math. We havetwo eyes. Cars have four tires. Cubes have sixfaces. Stop signs have eight sides. Like magic,zero to nine make up every number we need.With simple math, we move our money. Weadd accounts, subtract at stores, multiply ourmakings and divide desserts. Shape mathshows us how lines make objects all around us.

With this book, I learn the basics of counting numbers and beginning math. Numbers tell me how many and how much. Numbers count 1 to 9. Before I count to 10, a number for nothing is needed. It is called zero or a not. This is the story of numbers from not to nine. Once I learn numbers, what do I do with them? Funky Fairy shows me in the second book, Money Math. I see how useful numbers are. I add up bills before I buy things. I take away or subtract when I pay. Like, how I use ABC`s to make word

This book teaches us why shape math is important! We learn that points, lines and shapes are not scary. We see shapes everywhere We also see that shapes are in computers and smartphones too. See inside for more main points and how they connect in useful ways!