Parent guides
When Math Feels Scary
A Parent's Guide to Math Anxiety, Patient Practice, and Helping Your Child Try Again
A plain-language parent guide to math fear, missing foundations, home practice, and asking a tutor or school for help.
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Books for grown-ups and kids to share.
For children about ages 4 to 11, with a grown-up.
Start with the parent guide, explore IdeaSteps books, then find a coloring or activity book.
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The parent bookshelf
Find a book for your day. Each title has a details page and sample pages.
10 titles
Tier one · POPR Books
Parent Guides
Helpful reading for the grown-ups.
Tier two · IDEASTEPS Learning Series
IdeaSteps Books
One big idea in every book.
Every page starts with a picture. Look closely.
One small question. Count it, compare it, finish it.
Color your answer. Colors are free.
Tell a grown-up how you know. This is the best part.
IDEASTEPS Learning Series
Groups, Arrays & Equal Shares
An IdeaSteps Coloring and Activity Book on Equal Groups, Arrays and Fair Shares
Twenty-four coloring and thinking pages about equal groups, arrays and fair shares, with a grown-up guide and answers.
What is the idea?
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Equal groups. Three baskets with four apples each. The picture idea behind multiplication and sharing.
IDEASTEPS Learning Series
Balance & Forces
An IdeaSteps Coloring and Activity Book on Equal Sides and Fair Pulls
Twenty-four coloring and thinking pages on equal sides, fair pulls and balancing scales, with a grown-up guide and an answer page.
What is the idea?
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Equal sides. A scale, a tug of war, a seesaw. Count each side and compare.
IDEASTEPS Learning Series
Patterns, Codes & Clever Rules
An IdeaSteps Coloring and Activity Book on Repeating Patterns and Simple Codes
Twenty-four coloring and thinking pages on repeating patterns, rules and simple codes, with a grown-up guide and an answer page.
What is the idea?
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The rule that repeats. Spot it, say it, then make your own.
For the grown-up
Every IdeaSteps book has a page just for you. It names the idea in plain words, tells you what to say, shows a common mix-up, and gives you one question to ask afterward. Answers are in the back. There is no timer and no grade.
Tier three
Coloring & Activity Books
Easy-to-pick pages for a little learning break.
Coloring books
My First 10 Numbers: Count, Color, Learn
A low-prep, 24-page counting and coloring book for parents and caregivers. Two short activities for each number from 1 to 10, plus a friendly note for grown-ups.
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Learning activities
Turtle Times! Multiply, Color, Learn
A 24-page multiplication and coloring activity for parents and caregivers. Count turtle groups, work with rows and columns, and practice repeated addition together.
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Learning activities
Nebula Noodles: Count, Draw, Add
A space adventure for early addition. Count noodle comets, draw the missing noodles, and add to 10 with a grown-up.
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Skill practice, one step at a time.
Workbook-style pages for a grown-up and a child to do together. Each book builds one skill in small steps. No particular learning result is promised.
Learning activities
Take Away Time
A Subtraction Coloring and Practice Book
Twenty pages of subtraction practice with cross-out pictures, ten frames, number lines, a color-by-answer page, fact families and story problems, with a grown-up page and an answer key.
Next step after Nebula Noodles.
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Learning activities
Times Tables Trail
A Multiplication Coloring and Practice Book
Twenty-four pages in three trails: equal groups and arrays, facts for 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10, and bigger numbers split into tens and ones, with a grown-up page and an answer key.
Next step after Turtle Times!
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Learning activities
Say It Out Loud
A Basic English Speaking and Words Coloring Book
Twenty-one pages for saying English words out loud: greetings, first words, sentences, question words, feelings, rhymes and short stories, with a grown-up page.
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