This series employs a variety of sentence-combining techniques to help children become better writers. Programs also demonstrate punctuation and capitalization skills and commonly misspelled words. This series is about applied math and science problem solving. The goals of the series is to show math in new light and to help students understand how to solve complex problems. This sequential series strengthens a specific skill, idea, or problem solving strategy.
Young children learn to recognize, solve, and enjoy mathematical problems.
They learn how to reason and communicate mathematically, as programs combine math with a whole language approach. The program is based on familiar tales, as well as traditional multicultural stories. Return to the enchanting mathshop as Mathica, an elf in the Land of Tales, continues to solve the many math-related problems that perplex the inhabitants of this fairy tale land. This series stresses number manipulation, developing ballpark estimates, drawing inferences, predicting consequences and recognizing unreasonable answers. Escalante's tremendous success is based on the fact that students are usually better motivated when they can connect what they are studying now to what they will be doing in the future.