Toby's Boat, Car and Tower: Block Questions

Toby the Toolbox builds a sailboat, a car and a tower out of pattern blocks, and kindergarten students ask and answer math questions about them. They pick the question that counting can answer, count the blue and green blocks, and tell which color there is more of or fewer of. Then they solve Toby's put-together and take-away stories, choose the equation 4 + 2 = 6 for his car, count out 12 blocks and build with them, and check Toby's count of his robot. Every direction is read aloud, and a wrong answer gets a spoken hint and another try.

• 13 narrated scenes with Toby the Toolbox, voiced throughout
• Notice and wonder about a pattern-block sailboat
• Counting and more-or-fewer questions about block designs
• Two two-part story problems (put together and take away)
• Count out 12 blocks, then build with them
• Spoken hints and another try on every question

• Find a question about a block design that counting can answer, then answer it.
• Count the blocks of one color in a design, and tell which color there is more of or fewer of.
• Solve put-together and take-away stories about block shapes, and pick the equation for one.
• Count out 12 blocks for a shape, and check how many blocks a shape uses.