Geometry - General & Miscellaneous, Size & Shape, Mathematics - Recreation & Games
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Overview
Mathematics comes alive with Circles, a comic, full-color activity book. By playing with a flying disk, a geodesic dome, psychedelic designs, and more, kids teach themselves such concepts as pi, ellipses, and parabolas. Circles reveals the geometry of life in mazes, magic, pinwheels, pickles, and more. Full color.Uses a variety of activities to introduce the many types of circles and spheres we encounter in everyday life.
Editorials
Children's Literature -
Do you know why a circle is made up of 360 degrees or why a clock is divided into 60 minutes? Do you know why plants have radial symmetry and animals have bilateral symmetry? The answers to those questions and more can be found in Catherine Sheldrick Ross' Circles. In a conversational style, Ms. Ross writes about and provides instructions for hands-on activities involving the circles we encounter everywhere-in disks, cones, cylinders, and spirals, to name a few places. Bill Slavin's cartoon-like illustrations contribute to the non-threatening tone that will attract children, even those with little or no interest in math or geometry.Book Details
Published
May 30, 1993
Publisher
Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1993.
Pages
80
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9780201622683