Grade levels: Primary (1-3)

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 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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

The Race Car Problem

Junk Yard/Race Track Stadium
Peg and Cat rebuild their homemade race car, “Hot Buttered Lightnin’”, to compete in the Talla-peg-a 20 race.

• Primary Content: More than, less than
• Secondary Content: Solid shapes

The Big Gig Problem

The Farm
Peg and Cat need to round up the missing members of their touring band, the Electric Eleven, in time for their big gig for 100 chickens.

• Primary Content: Counting backwards from 11
• Secondary Content: Deductive reasoning, the 20s