Just the Right Size
Find out what keeps big animals (like us) from engaging in astonishing feats of strength and agility, and yet why being tiny and all-powerful might have a downside
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Find out what keeps big animals (like us) from engaging in astonishing feats of strength and agility, and yet why being tiny and all-powerful might have a downside
Milo drives through the phantom tollbooth to discover that life is exciting beyond his wildest dreams.
This book talks about really big numbers in terms of everyday things, such as the number of basketballs needed to cover New York City.
Generations of readers have fallen in love with this humorous tale of things inside-out and upside-down, but mathematicians are particularly fond of the series as it was written by one of their own.
Inside this book, families will find fun, mischief-making math problems to tackle—math that isn't just kid-friendly, but actually kid-appealing.
As a young boy in medieval Italy, Leonardo Fibonacci thought about numbers day and night. He was such a daydreamer that people called him a blockhead
The poet J. Patrick Lewis has reimagined classic poems—such as Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and Langston Hughes’s “April Rain Song”—and added a dash of math.
Logan and Benedict get zapped by a feisty robot on a school trip to the museum and lose their math skills. Being “numbed” teaches them just how useful, and even fun, math can be.
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