"Properties aren't magic! They are special rules that numbers follow so you can solve problems quickly in your head. Using detailed instructions and rhyming text, students gain understanding of when and how to use mathematical properties. This book will allow students to apply properties of operations as a strategy to add and subtract, or multiply and divide"--Back cover.

Includes glossary.

Numbers, numbers everywhere! - Properties - Commutative property - Associative property - Distributive property - Identity property of addition - Multiplication property of one - Zero property of multiplication - Name the property.