Countries: CA

  • Yet Another Tree Problem / The Romeo and Juliet Problem

    Yet Another Tree Problem / The Romeo and Juliet Problem

    Yet Another Tree Problem

    Peg’s Neighborhood
    The tables are turned! Peg is stuck up in the tree and Cat must figure out how to get her down…by making a ladder out of found objects.

    • Primary Content: Up, down
    • Secondary Content: Horizontal, vertical

    The Romeo and Juliet Problem

    Verona, circa 1500
    Peg and Cat help their poetic pal Romeo reach Juliet’s balcony using a series of horizontal and vertical lines.

    • Primary Content: Horizontal, vertical
    • Secondary Content: Parallel
  • The Perfect Ten Problem / The Long Line Problem

    The Perfect Ten Problem / The Long Line Problem

    The Perfect Ten Problem

    TV Show Set
    Peg and Cat are judging a singing competition in which all performers must get a rating of exactly ten stars.

    • Primary Content: Adding to 10
    • Secondary Content: The number 0

    The Long Line Problem

    The Purple Planet
    While waiting in a long line, Peg and Cat try to help Richard realize his dream of being first in line for the first time.

    • Primary Content: Ordinal numbers, using a number line
    • Secondary Content: Positional relationships (in front of/behind), counting to 20
  • The Christmas Problem

    The Christmas Problem

    The North Pole
    When Santa Claus is in trouble, Peg and Cat have to solve their biggest problem ever: how to make 7 and wrap presents for all the children of the world, and then deliver them using 100 sleighs.

    • Primary Content: Solving a multi-step problem
    • Secondary Content: Counting to 100
  • The Big Dog Problem / The Three Friends Problem

    The Big Dog Problem / The Three Friends Problem

    The Big Dog Problem

    Peg’s yard
    When Peg and Cat need to mail some important letters for Peg’s Mom, they find their path to the mailbox blocked by a really big dog.

    • Primary Content: Height
    • Secondary Content: Direction, sets that can’t be divided equally

    The Three Friends Problem

    Peg’s yard
    When Peg and Cat are playing with their new friend the Big Dog, Cat suddenly becomes strangely quiet. Using a graph, Peg attempts to figure out what’s wrong with Cat.

    • Primary Content: Bar graphs
    • Secondary Content: More, less
  • The Arch Villain Problem / The Straight and Narrow Problem

    The Arch Villain Problem / The Straight and Narrow Problem

    The Arch Villain Problem

    Mathtropolis
    When the Arch Villain wreaks havoc on the city of Mathtropolis by turning everything into arches, Super Peg and Cat Guy come to the rescue.

    • Primary Content: Arches, finding arches in other shapes
    • Secondary Content: Counting backwards from 9, counting by threes

    The Straight and Narrow Problem

    Mathtropolis
    Super Peg and Cat Guy trail the Arch Villain, who has given up his arch ways and gone on a rampage with straight and narrow shapes instead.

    • Primary Content: straight, narrow, curved
    • Secondary Content: Counting sides to determine shapes (rectangles, triangles, squares), counting by tens to 100
  • The Clown Problem / The Ninja Problem

    The Clown Problem / The Ninja Problem

    The Clown Problem

    The Circus
    Peg and Cat help Mac achieve his dream of being a clown in the circus, by teaching him how funny it can be when things are exactly the wrong size.

    • Primary Content: Adding 1
    • Secondary Content: Size correspondence

    The Ninja Problem

    Japan
    Peg and Cat help their young Ninja-wannabe friend Aki find the fifteen missing cherry blossom trees by using Ninja skills and math skills.

    • Primary Content: Subtraction
    • Secondary Content: Counting to 15
  • The Birthday Cake Problem / The Doohickey Problem

    The Birthday Cake Problem / The Doohickey Problem

    The Birthday Cake Problem

    Peg’s Pizza Place
    Peg and Cat make a rockin’ birthday cake for Jonah and his friends the Teens, but first they need to figure out how old he is going to be.

    • Primary Content: The teen numbers
    • Secondary Content: Patterns

    The Doohickey Problem

    The Purple Planet
    When their space ship is smashed, Peg and Cat must reassemble its variously shaped parts, and retrieve sixteen stolen doohickeys.

    • Primary Content: Patterns
    • Secondary Content: Shapes, the number 16
  • The Tree Problem / Another Tree Problem

    The Tree Problem / Another Tree Problem

    The Tree Problem

    Peg’s Neighborhood
    When Cat is stuck in a tree, Peg needs to figure out how to get him down using three giant gifts.

    • Primary Content: Spatial sense, solving a puzzle
    • Secondary Content: Direction, position

    Another Tree Problem

    Peg’s Neighborhood
    When Cat is stuck in a tree again Peg has to find a different way to get him down.

    • Primary Content: Ordering objects by height
    • Secondary Content: Ordinal numbers
  • The Dinosaur Problem / The Beethoven Problem

    The Dinosaur Problem / The Beethoven Problem

    The Dinosaur Problem

    Prehistoric Valley
    When Peg and Cat get lost riding dinosaurs through a prehistoric forest, they use a diagram to find their way to safety before the Baby T-Rex catches up to them.

    • Primary Content: Following diagrams
    • Secondary Content: Patterns

    The Beethoven Problem

    Vienna, circa 1800
    When Peg and Cat are helping their pal Ludwig Van Beethoven write a symphony, Cat laughs in a certain pattern that gives Beethoven a great idea.

    • Primary Content: Patterns
    • Secondary Content: Ordinal Numbers
  • The Honey Problem / The Penguin Problem

    The Honey Problem / The Penguin Problem

    The Honey Problem

    Peg’s Pizza Place
    The 3 Bees will produce honey for Peg and Cat’s super-popular honey cake – but only if Peg and Cat will dance for the Bees in a certain pattern!

    • Primary Content: Weight
    • Secondary Content: Patterns

    The Penguin Problem

    The South Pole
    Peg and Cat coach a team of skiing penguins, who would have a shot at the Olympic gold medal if only they knew “over”, “under”, and “in between”.

    • Primary Content: Over, under, in between
    • Secondary Content: Balance