Engaging story lines and relatable contexts assist readers in understanding the fundamentals of numbers and operations in base ten. Students will learn how to extend the count sequence and gain an understanding of place value in order to apply that understanding to addition and subtraction equations. Age-appropriate text and eye-catching visuals make these concepts easy to understand for beginning math students. Readers will use the concepts of tens and ones to determine which number in a set of pairs is greater than, lesser than, or equal to. This volume meets CCSS Math Standard 1.NBT.B.3. This book should be paired with "The School Track Meet" (9781477720400) from the Rosen Math Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.