introduces some subtraction and adding problems while the monkeys are off shopping in the mall. fun introduction for math skills.
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This is a story about how five monkeys go shopping with their mother. This is a great story to help teach children about how you should not wonder off from the adult. The monkeys kept wondering off doing different things, whether it was to get a drink, go to the bathroom, going off with friends that are shopping, etc.. Not only does this book teach about how you should stay with the adult you are with, but it is a way that you can use addition and subtraction into the story with what the different monkeys go and do at the shopping center.

I didn't care for it, and neither did my son. The idea is good enough, try to sneak in some addition and subtraction, but the book was just confusing and boring. Or maybe it's just that I don't like shopping at a department store all that much ... ( )

Momma takes her five monkeys to go shopping for school. Those monkeys are always finding away to create trouble. When they get to the store they start trying on clothes. Momma tells them to stay where they are and do not move. But of course the monkeys did not listen. Some of the monkeys go wandering around. Momma comes back to find only three monkeys. She tells her other monkeys to stay there while she goes to find them. Well of course they do not listen. Momma keeps losing her monkeys and she even gains some that are not hers! Will she ever get her all five of the monkeys together? ( )

A fun book to help any young student start understand and practicing the idea of numbers, including addition and subtraction. Hosted by a family of monkeys, they go on a shopping trip involving lots of numbers and fun!