A Math Journey Through the Human Body

by Anne Rooney

Overview

Go on a mission to record the unique characteristics of your body, and use your math skills to check your diet, test your strength, and chart your growth. Math puzzles and exercises help you use the power of bar charts, percentages, averages, and fractions to guide you on your own personal checkup.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780778714590
Publisher:	Crabtree Classics
Publication date:	09/19/2014
Series:	Go Figure! Series
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	8.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.20(d)
Lexile:	930L (what's this?)
Age Range:	8 - 11 Years

Table of Contents

Your Whole Body 04

Eating Well 06

Breathe in, Breathe Out 08

Heavy Lifting 10

Measure Me 12

Comparing Bodies 14

Skin Surfaces 16

Bare Bones 18

Body Ratios 20

Bigger and Bigger 22

Triangles Inside You! 24

Sharing Data 26

Answers 28

Math Glossary 30

Learning More and Index 32

Editorial Reviews

11/01/2014
Gr 5–8—Readers are invited to apply varied math lessons to hypothetical life or work situations, such as heading up an ecological expedition or space mission, working as an animal scientist, or conducting a study of the human body. Page one of each colorful entry features a section called "Learn About It," with explanations and examples of math operations, including addition and subtraction, fractions and decimals, time, quadrants and coordinates, an assortment of tables and graphs, and much more. On the second page, "Go Figure!" poses several questions or problems for applying the lesson. Varying in difficulty level, these are introductions that could also work as review exercises or enjoyable explorations for students who like math. They might even invite further thinking about interesting possibilities for future careers. Fun, sometimes challenging additions.

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