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Frostbound Express
Juniper, a kind snowshoe-hare conductor with a brass lantern, needs an assistant for the overnight run to the North Village. Children seat passengers in rows, stoke the firebox and share cocoa fairly, keep the timetable on a pocket watch across a moonlit frozen lake, set the junctions in a glacier canyon and find lost parcels under the aurora. Everything they solve lights up the village and its giant tree at the end of the line.
ages 7–10 · about 20 min
What you'll learn
- Multiplication as equal groups and arrays, with skip counting
- Division as sharing and grouping, including remainders
- Telling time, elapsed time and arrival times on an analog clock
- Place value to 1000, comparing numbers and rounding to estimate
- Two-step word problems: choosing the operation