Meet Zoe and Max — six-year-old twins with a puppy named Pip and a math-loving Grandma Rose — as they turn every part of first grade into a small adventure. This read-aloud guide covers the full Common Core standard: counting past 120, place value with tens and ones, addition and subtraction within 20, telling time to the half hour, comparing lengths, and naming plane and solid shapes. Every chapter closes with a "Story Corner" that answers where the math came from (Egyptian counting cords, the invention of the number one, the shepherd who tallied his sheep) and an optional "Around the World Challenge" pulled from how China, Singapore, and Israel teach the same idea. Sixteen chapters, thousands of practice problems with complete answer keys, and a warm recurring world that lets a first grader watch mathematics grow the way a story does. First book in a full grades 1–12 series.

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