We Keep a Store.

Here is a beautiful story of a family who works together to run a country store. We learn about keeping a store from the young girl's perspective as she describes the many facets of running such a business: we see mother weighing a bag of candy on the big white scale and figuring out what to order from the big grocery company; we see father opening boxes of goods and see his young daughter stacking cans on shelves as well as counting on her fingers to help mother figure the change for a customer.

A lot of mathematical activities are thus represented in the story. However, the mathematics is just a part of the larger story of a family that grows together in love as they …