A take-away race with a surprising finish · Ages 4–7

Max Counts Back Home

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• Ages 4–7
• 32-page softcover

Max is careful. Tilly is quick. Along a twisting race route, counters disappear two, three and two at a time. When the finish gate will not open, Max notices what speed has hidden: the difference between five and three. A lively maths story about taking away, comparing and finding more than one route to an answer. Max Counts Back Home turns subtraction as removal, comparison, and difference into the central problem: A race can be finished only by noticing a mathematical relationship hidden in the route; the slow character spots it and transforms the finish line into the solution. A final spread replays the story with manipulatives, a labelled visual model, and one open question with multiple defensible answers.