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Creature Melody Factory is one of three interactive storybooks, along with Creature Birthday Surprise, and Creature Frog Pond, brought to you by Professor Ginsboo's Magical Math Production Company. Based on a decade of research at Teachers College, Columbia University, the interactive storybooks are a playful approach to early math learning. Creature Melody Factory is designed to assist young kids, roughly ages 4 to 6 years, learn about number, specifically, various ways for determining the number of objects in a collection. Monster Melody Factory is the story of how three charming monsters-Oona, Tigga, and Marluk-are asked by other hero, Zoller, to send musical instruments to the popular band, the Whirling Wailers, who are about to give a concert. The creatures are thrilled by the possibility to assist the Whirling Wailers, their favorite band. The creatures' task is to determine the number of the musical instruments that emerge from a chute in the Melody Factory and then choose the written numeral that shows the correct number. Once the kid succeeds at doing this, a box with the correct numeral appears and the instruments pop into the box, which is then taken away to be sent to the Whirling Wailers. The first set of instruments are tambourines. Oona says there are three, but she is wrong. Tigga helps her to receive the right answer-four-by counting carefully, one by one. Next, Oona (and the kid) could press the 4 on the machine, which causes a box with 4 written on it to pop up and keep the instruments for shipping to the band. After this, the kid is shown a few various numbers of tambourines and can practice counting them, checking, and choosing the correct written numeral. Trumpets are next on the list. But a complication arises! The trumpets come out in a pile so messy that it is hard to see how a lot of there are. What to do? Tigga shows how to count the trumpets by pushing aside one at a time until they are all counted. After that, more trumpets emerge and the kid has the possibility to drag and count one by one. After the trumpets are all boxed and sent off, kazoos are next on the list. They do something fresh: as they emerge from the chute, they stay on the screen for only a second or two before descending into a box. To determine the number, you have to see it; you can't count. Psychologists call this "subitizing," seeing quickly ("subito" in Italian). This is hard to do. Young kids might learn to see 3 or 4 and maybe even 5. Adults can subitize up about 7 or even 8 or 9. The kid is given a few opportunities to learn to subitize flying kazoos. Next come ukuleles, the final instrument. There are more of them than the another instruments. But when they come out of the chute, they arrange themselves in a row of 5 and then other row beneath that. So if the number is 7, the kid will see the row of 5 on top, and then a row of two just below on the left, like this: X X X X X X X To solve the trouble, the kid can count, "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and now 6, 7. There are 7 altogether." After doing this, the kid is likely to see that a simpler way is possible. Just begin with 5 and count on from there: "5, and now 6, 7. There are 7 altogether." In this tactic, the row of 5, which the kid can learn to see, is a type of foundation for the numbers 6 through 10. Other method of looking at it is that the kid begins with 5 and then adds on some more to receive the result. After the kid loads the boxes, in number order onto a truck, everyone goes to a concert given by the Whirling Wailers, who sing some unbelievable original melody by Chris Cerf. The another two ebooks in the series, Creature Birthday Surprise, and Creature Frog Pond, also assist the kid to learn primary ideas about number and tactics for solving easy, daily life math issues.