Measurement Mania

Don't Just Learn Measurement.Master It!

Brimming with fun and educational games and activities, the Magical Math series provides everything you need to know to become a master of mathematics! In each of these books, Lynette Long uses her own unique style to help you truly understand mathematical concepts as you play with everyday objects such as playing cards, dice, coins, and paper and pencil.

Inside Measurement Mania, you'll learn to take the mystery out of mea-surement! Once you've mastered the basic forms of measurement—length, volume, weight, temperature, and time—you'll learn how to measure the length of an ant in millimeters, the height of a telephone pole in feet, the volume of a bathtub in ounces, the weight of one spaghetti noodle in grams, and the temperature inside a refrigerator in Celsius.You'll discover how to tell time with a candle, create optical illusions, and measure the tallest tree in your neighborhood without climbing an inch!

So why wait? Jump right in and find out how easy it is to become a mathematics master!

Don't Just Learn Measurement.Master It!

Brimming with fun and educational games and activities, the Magical Math series provides everything you need to know to become a master of mathematics! In each of these books, Lynette Long uses her own unique style to help you truly understand mathematical concepts as you play with everyday objects such as playing cards, dice, coins, and paper and pencil.

Inside Measurement Mania, you'll learn to take the mystery out of mea-surement! Once you've mastered the basic forms of measurement—length, volume, weight, temperature, and time—you'll learn how to measure the length of an ant in millimeters, the height of a telephone pole in feet, the volume of a bathtub in ounces, the weight of one spaghetti noodle in grams, and the temperature inside a refrigerator in Celsius.You'll discover how to tell time with a candle, create optical illusions, and measure the tallest tree in your neighborhood without climbing an inch!

So why wait? Jump right in and find out how easy it is to become a mathematics master!

Children's Literature

There are lots of things to measure, and this book looks at forty ways to do that. It is important to understand not only the system we use for measurement, commonly known as the English measurement system, but the metric system as well. The English system was originally based on parts of the body, for example a foot. A yard was the measurement from the shoulder to the thumb, and a mile was how far a Roman soldier could walk in 1,000 paces. The French developed the metric system in the 1790s. It is based on units of 10. The first seventeen exercises use English and metric units to measure length and distance. There are nine more activities measuring volume. Exercises in weight, temperature and time complete the forty problems. Get out your running shoes, because you will be running a mile and calculating how fast you ran in miles per hour. Dancing decimal points is a card and dice game for converting from one metric unit to another. 2001, John Wiley and Sons, $12.95. Ages 8 to 12. Reviewer: Kristin Harris

LYNETTE LONG has an M.S. in mathematics and a Ph.D. in psychology. She has taught math and was a professor of education, specializing in mathematics education. She is the author of several children's math books, including Dazzling Division and Marvelous Multiplication, both published by Wiley.