A math journey through the human body

A math journey through the human body

Anne Rooney

Book - 2015

"Fun pictograms and infographics about the human body make learning about math topics such as bar charts, percentages, averages and fractions easy and fun. In this book, readers go on an amazing mission inside the human body and use their mathematical skills to check their diet, test their strength, and chart their growth. Math puzzles and exercises help children build confidence in their math skills."--

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Subjects
Mathematics > Juvenile literature.
Human body > Juvenile literature.
Anatomy > Juvenile literature.
Published
St. Catharines, Ontario ; New York, New York : Crabtree Publishing Company 2015.
©2014
Language
English
Main Author
Anne Rooney (-)
Item Description
Includes index.
Physical Description
32 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
ISBN
9780778707349
9780778714590
  • Your whole body
  • Eating well
  • Breathe in, breathe out
  • Heavy lifting
  • Body measurements
  • Comparing bodies
  • Skin surfaces
  • Bare bones
  • Tooth trouble
  • Bigger and bigger
  • Triangles inside you!
  • Sharing data
  • Go figure! answers.
Review by Booklist Review

For students who wonder when they'll ever use the math skills they learn, check out the Go Figure! series. Each title introduces a challenge that requires real-world math. Twelve missions explain a math concept, followed by related word problems. In A Math Journey through the Human Body, readers gather data as they study the human body. Interpreting tables and bar graphs to monitor healthy eating and using decimals and fractions to measure skin surface are some of the math skills covered. With each book featuring a different set of concepts, the series offers a wide range of activities (as well as concluding answers).--Leeper, Angela Copyright 2015 Booklist

From Booklist, Copyright (c) American Library Association. Used with permission.
Review by School Library Journal Review

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. (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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