Cory Doran

Monster Math Squad stars MAX, LILY and GOO. While they may not be the biggest, or bravest (or even the brainiest) monsters on the block, the Squad love nothing better than to put their monster minds together and use their math skills to overcome any obstacle they face… even ones with two left feet or ten thumbs. Each story features a job for the Squad, helping a monster with a unique problem.

Comparing objects enables the Squad to determine if one has less than an amount of something than another. In this case, it's if the amount of water given to a plant is less than the amount given to another. // The Squad help a sleepy monster follow a recipe for making a compost 'bed' by learning that 'sum' indicates the total of two or more objects added together.

In the town of Monstrovia, the Garbage Monster delivers garbage to everyone's house! Garbage Monster can't figure out how to get the garbage orders correct. The Monster Math Squad needs to learn about SORTING in order to get the correct garbage into the correct bins. // A call comes in over the Scream Screen - its Mrs. Mopely, the Monster Day Scare teacher. Her little monsters are having trouble playing with their scary face balloons as they keep...

The Monster Math Squad help a group of little monsters figure out a game of musical chairs by knowing all about MORE. When the Squad arrives, the little monsters are trying to play, but they have the same number of chairs as monsters - no one can seem to win! // Even Stevie and Even Evie need the Monster Math Squad's help. These twins like everything to be EVEN. The Squad drop by and help show the twins how to play a game of bowling and keep all the...

The Squad use their knowledge about 'next' numbers in order to put Number Line Monster back together after he falls apart, and also when playing a counting game. // The Squad are enlisted by Maker Monster to help count and package up large numbers of toys quickly and accurately.

The Squad get a cranky call from Mr Cranky Pants Monster: he's trying to pack up orders of Slime Cubes, but can't figure out the proper size of boxes in which to pack them! The squad observe Mr CPM putting boxes of varying lengths beside slime cubes of varying numbers. With the help of a Math monitor, they learn to make a number line 'ruler' out of slime cube cups to help with the job. // Monstrous romance is in the air as Nervous Nelly Monster calls...

Mr Googly Eyed Monster needs help to get his Wally Ball-y rolling again, so he calls on the Monster Math Squad! They learn that what Wally Ball-y needs is to be on a slope, which will help him get rolling. Goo makes himself into a slope, but they discover that for this slope to work, Wally Ball-y needs to go to the top of it, not the bottom! // Hoppity Monster loves the game Monster Hopscotch, with its ten squares, but he wants MORE squares to hop...

Three monsters of different weights learn which of three different-sized Honkers are the right match for them. // Muddle Monster wants to play Whack-a-Monster-Ball with Double Monster, but the Squad have to learn how to make everything double before DM will play!

Bad Mood Monster needs the Monster Math Squad to walk his pet monster Woofy while he attends his nephew's party in the park. The Monster Math Squad has never met Woofy, and Bad Mood Monster rushes off only telling the Squad that Woofy is behind "the round door with the square door knob". // Miss Murkly can't bake her slimy grimy monster muffins! She has no way to measure the ingredients as someone has taken the numbers off her scale. All clues lead...

The Squad help Farmer Monster, who grows Toothy Plants with differing numbers of teeth. First, they learn how to mark the individual teeth of each plant to count them, then they learn to mark the number of teeth each plant has on its pot. This way, Farmer monster can easily identify the number of teeth each closed-mouth plant has! We did the math! // The shape of an object doesn't determine how much it can hold. The Squad help a clumsy sculptor complete...