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Galileo's leaning tower experiment

a science adventure
Galileo, having observed a young boy dropping food from a bridge into his uncle's boat, conducts several experiments to study gravity.

A frog's life

learning sequential order using a timeline
Uses a timeline of a frog's life cycle to teach children sequential order and about frogs.

Click it

Teaches facts and skills about mathematics, while helping the reader to become comfortable with using a computer.

Sir Cumference and the Fracton Faire

a math adventure
Discovering "Fracton numbers" at a fair where items keep disappearing, Sir Cumference and Lady Di learn an important lesson about the comparative size of fractions while setting a numberic trap fo a thief.

Powerful place value

Rhyming text introduces the concept of place value in mathematics and teaches how to read and write numbers in standard and expanded notation form.

Why pi?

[how math applies to everyday life?]
Explores the history of mankind's use of mathematics to explain the world and its processes and outlines an assortment of ways in which math is put to use in real-world situations in the present.

How to Make and Use an Abax

"Thousands of years ago, people used pebbles and sand to do simple math. Read How to Make and Use an Abax to learn how to do addition and subtraction with a tool made out of beans and clay.".

Reading a Graph

All about reading graphs and the kinds of things that we can put in them.

Babymouse

An imaginative mouse who likes to read heroic fantasy novels finds herself on the school math team as it prepares to compete for the coveted Golden Slide Rule.

Graphing favorite things

Introduces graphing through a story about neighborhood children planning a summer block party.

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