Grade levels: Primary (1-3)

The Ring Problem

Giant land
When the Giant drops the diamond ring he’s about to give Giantess, it bounces into a pipe. He needs his very small friends Peg and Cat to get it back.

• Primary Content: Ordinal numbers
• Secondary Content: Adding on to find a difference

The Wedding Problem

Giant land
When Peg and Cat are chosen to organize the Giants’ wedding, they must get the twelve steps for a giant wedding in just the right order.

• Primary Content: Ordering events over time
• Secondary Content: Ordinal numbers

The George Washington Problem

Delaware River
Peg and Cat use a map to help George Washington and his team cross the Delaware River.

• Primary Content: Mapping / position
• Secondary Content: Balance / number recognition

The High Noon Problem

Wild West
Peg and Cat agree to face Bad Jack in a show down at high noon. But they have no idea when noon is!

• Primary Content: Associating activities with time of day
• Secondary Content: Making predictions

The Pizza Problem

Peg’s Pizza Place
When Peg and Cat get orders for halves of pizzas, they must learn about fractions to keep their patrons pleased.

• Primary Content: Fractions (whole, half)
• Secondary Content: Circles

The Pizza Pirate Problem

Peg’s Pizza Place/Giant Land/Prehistoric Valley/Ancient Egypt
As Peg and Cat deliver pizzas far and wide, they are menaced by the flying Pizza Pirates who are determined to “take away one!”

• Primary Content: Taking away 1
• Secondary Content: Adding 10

The Potty Problem

Viv’s house
Peg and Cat must teach Big Mouth the 6 steps for making on the potty, or his visit to Viv’s house will be ruined – as will Viv’s carpet!

• Primary Content: Ordering steps
• Secondary Content: Pattern recognition

The Butter Problem

The Farm. To compete in a butter sculpting contest, Peg and Cat must learn certain math skills by doing farm chores.

• Primary Content: Applying prior knowledge
• Secondary Content: Following diagrams

The Pirate Puzzle Problem

The Pirate Ship
Peg and Cat must help the pirates put together a puzzle, and then the four sections of their sinking ship.

• Primary Content: Composing and decomposing puzzles
• Secondary Content: Recognizing the attributes of shapes

The Scrap of Map Problem

Pirate Island
When the Pirates’ treasure map is torn and carried off by the wind, Peg and Cat and friends from far and wide put their scraps of map together to find the treasure.

• Primary Content: Working together to solve a problem, one-to-one counting
• Secondary Content: Using a map, fair sharing

The Sushi Problem

Japan
Peg and Cat help Aki pursue a tricky thief through the Japanese countryside, making use of their Ninja skills and three mysterious clues.

• Primary Content: Increasing and decreasing height and length
• Secondary Content: Deductive reasoning (using clues)

The Highlight Zone Problem

Peg’s Room/the Highlight Zone
Peg and Cat find their world turned black and white! They must identify ten things that are the wrong size or shape, before they will be allowed to leave…the Highlight Zone.

• Primary Content: Shape and size
• Secondary Content: Comparing

The Cold Camel Problem

Peg’s Neighborhood
While Cleopatra is visiting Peg, her camel wanders off in search of a comfortable climate. Peg and Cat search the neighborhood with a giant thermometer to find him.

• Primary Content: Doubling
• Secondary Content: Temperature (hot and cold)

The Einstein Problem

The Mega Mall
When Cat gets lost in the mall, Peg and her pal Al (Albert Einstein) track him down with the help of a metronome, many equations, and a surprise appearance by Marie Curie.

• Primary Content: Writing as a step in problem solving
• Secondary Content: Using a number line

The Wonderland Problem

Wonderland
Landing in Wonderland, Peg and Cat eat berries to grow bigger or smaller, in their quest to get back Peg’s stick from the Queen of Hearts.

• Primary Content: Height and length
• Secondary Content: Comparing amounts

The Bat Mitzvah Problem

Peg’s Pizza Place
Peg and Cat help Tessa’s Bat Mitzvah run smoothly by keeping an eye on Uncle Phil, who thinks he can do ten more of everything than he actually can.

• Primary Content: Seeing a 10 in teen numbers
• Secondary Content: Adding on

The Allergy Problem

Peg’s house/Inside a Whale
When Peg is told she’s allergic to Cat, Cat leaves home! Ramone flies Peg around the world in his flying machine that runs on 100 pebbles, in search of her friend.

• Primary Content: The value of mistakes, adding to 5
• Secondary Content: Counting by 10’s to 100

I Do What I Can: The Musical!

Radio City Music Hall
Peg and Cat present a Broadway musical about the amazing Ramone, who became a hero by doing 30 great things, 5 at a time.

• Primary Content: Counting to 30 by 5’s
• Secondary Content: Counting to 30 by 1’s

The Bermuda Triangle Problem

Bermuda
While on their beach vacation, Peg, Cat and the Pig tumble through a portal to a bizarre triangular universe.

• Primary Content: Triangles
• Secondary Content: Points and lines

The Breeze in the Branches

Idyllic glade
The Toad brings Peg and Cat to the forest where he grew up and introduces him to his old friends, and his old patterns.

• Primary Content: Identifying, creating and extending simple patterns
• Secondary Content: Recognizing cubes