Monster Math Squad

Bad Mood Monster needs the Monster Math Squad to walk his pet monster Woofy while he attends his nephews 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. The Squad use their knowledge of SHAPES to get the right door, but they end up with Sticky, Monstrovias stickiest little monster instead! A wacky chase ensues, which ends at the park where Sticky wreaks havoc on the party balloons. Fortunately, they meet up with Bad Mood Monster, and he sets the record straight on which pet is Woofy. The day ends happily, when Goo saves the party by filling in for the burst balloons!

Miss Murkly cant 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 to the Number Muncher Monster as the culprit, and the Monster Math Squad has to COUNT in order to find out what numbers are missing. With the help of Smooth Moves Monster, the Squad catch up with the Number Muncher Monster just before he is about to steal numbers from the town clock! Using the last slimy grimy monster muffin, the Squad convinces him there are better things to eat than numbers!

Mrs. Huge Horn Monster is missing her monster house! Its up to Smooth Moves Monster to set the Monster Math Squad on the right trail, but first the Squad need to learn about size! Learning the difference between SMALL, MEDIUM and LARGE, help the Squad follow the right tracks to the park and past a Gate Monster so Lily can climb the jungle gym for a birds eye view of the park. After Lily spots the house, they find out the house ran away because Mrs. Huge Horn Monsters little pet Fuzzy was tickling him constantly! Mrs. Huge Horn gives Fuzzy a quick hair cut, and they all live happily ever after!

Mr. Cranky Pants Monster is crankier then ever! Mess Monster has been in Mr. Cranky Pants Monsters store and turned the place upside down! The call comes into the Monster Math Squad to help sort things out while Mr. Cranky Pants Monster chases away Mess Monster! At the store, the Squad learns all about PAIRS as they sort out the sock supply and then head out to match up the Horned Hoots and get them back into their cages.

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. Sorting by colour and shape, the Squad help Garbage Monster separate the stinky monster slime sauce containers from the slimy monster sauce containers. Before long, all the monsters are getting just the right garbage!

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 floating away. The Monster Math Squad drop by and help them out by knowing all about things being LIGHT!

Mr. Cranky Pants Monsters last customer mistakenly left with the wrong scooter! The Monster Math Squad has to learn all about PATTERNS to follow the trail of the missing scooter! It was Uncle Gloop who mistakenly took the wrong scooter. He would love to return it if he could just remember the combination to the lock monster that is holding the scooter tight! Fortunately, the Squad remembers the combination as its a pattern of repeating colours!

The Monstrovia library is being shaken to its foundation as Big Burp Monster searches for a book! The Monster Math Squad has to learn about NUMBERS to help Miss Shush Monster, the librarian, find the book Big Burp Monster is looking for in the library. Just as the Squad gets close, Big Burp Monster nearly burps the numbers off the shelves! The Squad has to get everything straightened out before he can finally get his book, How to Burp Really Loud" Yikes!

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! By removing a chair, the Squad gets the game going until the Monstrocopy chairs duplicate themselves and suddenly there are more chairs than monsters! The Squad isn't sure what to do until the music stops and the Monstrocopy chairs switch things around and sit on the little monsters!!

Picky Eater Monster is at Barks and Stench General Store trying to figure out exactly how many items are needed for the picnic he is planning for his brother Persnickety Eater Monster! The Monster Math Squad helps out and makes sure they have the exact number of items on the grocery list by learning all about ADDING!

Miss Murkly is all in a tizzy. She claims she will never bake again! A customer, Mrs. Half Monster, wants to return one of Miss Murklys famous Heavenly Half Muffins. This has never happened before; the muffin was perfect, half slime and half grime! But Mrs. Half Monster claims her order is 'Wrong! All wrong!' By learning all about HALF, the Monster Math Squad unravels the mystery of why Mrs. Half Monster doesn't like Miss Murkly's famous Heavenly Half Muffin!

Long Tail Monster is trying to lead the Monster Stinkiness Parade, but whenever he starts marching all the other monsters suddenly disappear! By learning all about POSITION, the Monster Math Squad get all the monsters sorted out, so they can march their stinky march without being wiped out by a long tail!

Mrs. Mopely is having a terrible time sorting out all the different size scary face masks the little monsters have made for Scary Face Picture Day. Using the secret monster math word MEASURE, the Monster Math Squad sort out the masks and help the little monsters line up into rows for their scary picture!

Miss Hattie Monster is trying desperately to complete three hats for her next customer, but for some reason the Jingle Monsters and the Puff Monsters keep jumping off the hats! The Monster Math Squad helps Miss Hattie Monster by MATCHING the right number of Jingly Monster to the right number of Puff Monsters on each hat. They finish the three hats just in time as Mister Three Head Monster arrives to pick them up!

The Squad get a call from Slime Cream Monster he needs help counting the Slime Cream Sundaes hes selling from his truck! Mr Cranky Pants Monster is very upset because even though he ordered three sundaes, Slime Cream Monster only gave him one! A little investigation reveals slime Cream Monster has actually made three sundaes, but only handed one over to Mr Cranky Pants Monster. With the help of the Word of the Day ALL - the Squad teach Slime Cream Monster that the last number you count in a group represents the whole group. Soon everyone is getting the number of sundaes they ordered. Yum! We did the math!

The Squad is called by Stinky Feet Monster to help him find the ingredients for his annual footbath. Using the Stinky Feet Manual, they discover the various ingredients are located at the top of a mountain, at the bottom of a bush, etc. Learning about Top and Bottom points them in the right direction, and soon they have put together all the ingredients for one seriously stink foot bath!

Miss Murkly is leaving her nephew, Muddle Monster, in charge of her muffin shop, but he gets everything so mixed up, shes hoping the Squad will come over and make her monster muffins! Theyre always happy to help out, and over they go to Miss Murklys Monster Muffin Shop. She tells them its very important that they follow the order of the recipe, prompting the Word Monster to remind them that ORDER is todays Word of the Day! After a few false starts, they correctly follow the order of the recipe and soon have delicious slimy, grimy monster muffins!

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! Then they learn that the slope cant be too steep, either. Soon they have Little Wally Ball-y rolling, making Googly-Eyed Monster very happy. Yay! We did the math!

Hoppity Monster loves the game Monster Hopscotch, with its ten squares, but he wants MORE squares to hop in, so he calls in the Squad! They discover the problem is that Hoppity cant add more squares to his board because he cant count higher than ten. With the help of a Math Monitor, the Squad and Hoppity learn the next five numbers after ten, and draw more squares. Then they count on another Math Monitor to show them how to correctly number those squares. Hoppity is Happity he has more squares to hop in! Yay! We did the math!

The Abominable Fridge Monster has a real problem: he needs to be full of food for his picnic with Mr Cranky Pants Monster, but he cant fill himself up! The Squad help him out by putting food back inside his fridge, but until his nose lights up, hes not full! They learn that FULL means having no empty space left inside, so they find one more thing to fill the empty space inside the Abominable Fridge Monster. It does the trick his nose lights up, meaning hes FULL! Hes able to go to the picnic with Mr Cranky Pants Monster!

When Garbage Monster wants to take a nap, he climbs on top of his garbage heap and snoozes. But his heap has gotten too high for him to climb onto! He needs the Squad to save the day! They get various things for Garbage Monster to stand on, to help him reach the top, but none of them boost him high enough. Through the concept of GREATER they discover they need to have more than one box stacked up to get Garbage Monster high enough, but then the stack is too high for him to get onto! Again, using GREATER they learn to make stairs out of the boxes. That works! Shhh! Garbage Monster is sleeping!

Picky Eater Monster is afraid he doesnt have enough time to make loot bags for his brother Persnickety Eater Monsters birthday party just the way he likes them. Can the Squad help? You bet they can using MATH! They arrive at the party site and start to assemble the loot bags, but quickly discover their scoops are all the same size, and Persnickety Eater Monster wants DIFFERENT amounts of each treat in his loot bags. How can they get the job done quickly if their scoops hold the SAME amounts of treats? The Word CAPACITY teaches them that different-sized scoops can hold different amounts of treats, so they find different-sized scoops. That works! Happy Birthday, Persnickety Eater Monster!

Sydney Squid Monster is having a pink ink tea party, but she doesnt know if shes ordered enough mucky-ucky marshmallows for the party each time she counts them, she gets a different number! The Squad say theyll be right over to help her. At Sydneys house, they notice that she is counting the marshmallows by putting them in a circle, and possibly counting each one more than once! Using the concept of ROW, they figure out to start counting at the beginning of the row, and stop at the end. They also learn that this applies even when there is more than one row. Sydney reveals that shes giving the tea party for the Monster Math Squad. Yay! We did the math!

Falls Apart Monster is missing his nose after bumping into another monster, and he needs the Squad to help him find it! The first thing they do is use a Math Monitor to make a sketch of the mystery monster, based on FAPMs description. Except the sketch is very silly-looking! But they learn this is because they havent put the parts in the right places. Using the concept of FRONT, BACK and SIDE, they make another sketch with the Mystery Monsters parts in the right places, and discover its Junk Monster! Again, using FRONT, BACK and SIDE they find Junk Monster at the back of Barks and Stench. And he has Falls Apart Monsters nose! Yay! We did the math!

The Squad offers to help some little monsters to get a bucking monster toy bucking! They learn that the ride requires three coins to make it start, but the little monsters are only putting in two. Thats not enough! So they put in enough coins, but the bucking monster still wont buck! Now whats the problem? It turns out that three monsters trying to ride is too many. But one monster is not enough the rides bucks like crazy! So if three is too many and one is not enough, the correct number is TWO! Soon the monsters are taking turns having fun on the bucking monster. Howl!

The Squad are asked to be judges at the famous Fang Festival, and they quickly make their way to the local park where the Festival is taking place. They first use a Measure Monster to determine which monsters fangs are the longest, then count to see which monster can hang from its fangs the longest. Except those two contests end with a tie, so they have to figure out which monster wins the Golden Fang Brush. They get the monsters to choose bristles from the Brush, and the monster with the longest bristle wins!

Garbage Monster calls the Squad and says he needs help making the teams for Monster Road Hockey. They scoot over to where he is, and, using the word DIVIDE, make two teams out of four players by putting two players on each team. But then Mr Cranky Pants Monster wants to play! And that means one team has an extra player! The solution can be found with DIVIDE again only this time, Goo divides in two, making an extra player for the team that was short-handed. They shoot, they score.they do the math!

The Squad need to help Mr Cranky Pants Monster deliver some fungus fingers, and to do that, theyll use math! They find him with his scooter stuck against the curb of the road, and its because the line hes following on the road leads him there. It turns out the line is straight, but the road is curved! They meet the Road Maker Monster thats been painting the lines and use the concept of straight and curved lines to get him to re-paint the road lines. Then they get him to smooth out a speed bump so that it has curvier-lined edge, and soon Mr Cranky Pants Monster is on his way to deliver fungus fingers. Harrumph! We did the math!

Mr. Cranky Pants Monster needs the Squad to finish putting away some toys for him, but he warns them the toys can be very fussy and hard to put away properly. The y soon discover that Monster Marbles are very particular about how they are put into a container if theyre not placed in a particular order, they jump out of their container! Luckily, the squad use place to first put the container in its correct pace on the shelf, and then second, put the marbles in their container correctly. But just when the marbles are happy, a Mr Cranky Pants Monster Toy gets very fussy! Fortunately, they are able too use place to determine the toy just wants to be in its box. Thats the place for that!