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  • The Baby Problem / The Sparkling Sphere Problem

    The Baby Problem / The Sparkling Sphere Problem

    The Baby Problem

    Peg’s Room
    Babysitters Peg and Cat rescue the precocious Baby Fox from the top of his elaborate block tower.

    • Primary Content: Solid shapes
    • Secondary Content: Diagrams

    The Sparkling Sphere Problem

    Magical Forest
    Knights of the Round Table Peg and Cat search for the Wizard Ramone, who has floated away in a sparkling sphere.

    • Primary Content: Rectangular prism and rhombus
    • Secondary Content: Counting by twos
  • The Parade Problem / The Halloween Problem

    The Parade Problem / The Halloween Problem

    The Parade Problem

    Park
    Peg and Cat need to sort out recyclables to clean up the park in time for the nursery school’s Halloween Parade.

    • Primary Content: Sorting
    • Secondary Content: Estimating

    The Halloween Problem

    Peg’s Neighborhood
    While trick or treating, Peg and Cat find themselves pursued by a metal monster. Later they teach fair sharing to a “friend” who turns out to be a real tiger!

    • Primary Content: Fair Sharing
    • Secondary Content: Positional relationships (in front
      of/behind)
  • The Blockette Problem / The Tulip Problem

    The Blockette Problem / The Tulip Problem

    The Blockette Problem

    Radio City Music Hall
    When their demanding pal Richard is directing the Radio City Music Hall Blockettes, Peg and Cat find a way to make the set perfectly symmetrical.

    • Primary Content: Symmetry
    • Secondary Content: Associate events with hot and cold temperatures, height

    The Tulip Problem

    Peg’s Neighborhood
    When Neighbor Ladies Connie and Viv have a tiff, Peg and Cat make peace by making sure each has the same number of flowers.

    • Primary Content: Subtraction, greater than/less than
    • Secondary Content: The equals sign
  • The Mega Mall Problem / The Cleopatra Problem

    The Mega Mall Problem / The Cleopatra Problem

    The Mega Mall Problem

    The Mega Mall
    Peg and Cat search the enormous Mega Mall for the teens so they can all enter the Zebra Guy dance contest.

    • Primary Content: Attributes of objects
    • Secondary Content: Maps

    The Cleopatra Problem

    Ancient Egypt
    When Peg and Cat are playing marbles among the pyramids with Queen Cleopatra, Peg’s marble is stolen by a mysterious man with an orange triangular beard.

    • Primary Content: Using a pan balance to compare weight
    • Secondary Content: Triangles
  • 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