Best Selling Books by Stuart J. Murphy

A visual-learning expert races up the charts and graphs math success with kid-friendly content sure to help with homework. Want to find the most popular meal in the cafeteria? Compare town sports enrollments? Or maybe you just want to know who burps the most in your family! Learn what line graphs, bar graphs, pie charts, and pictographs are and how and when to use them to represent data. Each project shows how to build a chart or graph and ties it all together with a creative infographic that really puts the A in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, ARTS, and Mathematics). Whether used as an introductory aid or to underscore previous knowledge, the book prepares today''s visually savvy children to succeed in school and life by analyzing the world around them.

Readers are introduced to the concept of probability in a story about a boy who has a day in which nothing goes right.

Lets Make a Deal! Mike and his little brother, Andy, are headed for the Dinosaur Card Trading Fair. They''re ready to wheel and deal. It''s, 4 Stegosaurus for 1 Triceratops, and 2 Triceratops for 1 Allosaurus. But can they get what they really want: the tremendous, gigantic, ferocious, Tyrannosaurus rex? The math concept of equivalency -- understanding when values are equal -- is introduced in this fast-paced story as two brothers try to beat the clock and make the ultimate trade.

Scream down the Dare-Devil Coaster and whirl around in the Twin Spin cars. Join in the carnival fun as 11 friends divide up to fit on the two-to-a-seat roller coaster and the four-to-a-cup teacups ride. Predivision skills have never been so exciting. Full color.

Jenny and Jeff are driving their little sister, Jill, crazy, and now that the family is moving into their new house it''s worse than ever. Who''ll have the bigger window? Who''ll have the bigger bedroom? How can they measure the space so that they''ll know for sure? Jenny and Jeff must calculate area to settle their debate. This simple geometry concept will prove once and for all whose room is bigger -- but maybe Jill can show her squabbling siblings that bigger isn''t always better!

Yee–hah! It''s rodeo time! Bareback bronc riding, barrel racing, calf roping, the livestock show, the fiddling contest, and don''t forget lunch –– how are Katie and Cameron going to fit it all in and still have time to help their uncle, Cactus Joe, with chores? By making a schedule, of course. But making a schedule and sticking to it turn out to be two very different things!

Explains place value to developing a grasp of large numbers.

Discusses the everyday use of the math concept of tallying with games for children.