| Title | The Best Vacation Ever (MathStart series) |
| Author | Stuart M. Murphy |
| Date Published | 1997 |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Overall content | The story is about a family planning for a vacation and making choices about where to go, how far to go, etc. The choices are organized and recorded in a tally chart. |
| Mathematics content | The story is useful for collecting data, and organizing and recording data (making a chart). |