Through a broad framework of reflective situations, children learn:
- to classify and arrange materials,
- to compare and relate objects,
- to understand simple spatial and temporal relationships and reproduce patterns,
- to use arbitrary or conventional measuring units,
- to use, organize, and expand their knowledge of numbers,
- to recognize and name simple solid and straight line shapes,
- to recognize symmetrical shapes as axes,
- to perform simple mathematical operations,
- to solve small problems.

On the last pages of the book are provided:
- ideas for games, crafts, personal expression, and creation.