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Math is everywhere when you're traveling! See who's on the move inside this bookand how we need math to finish the trip! You'll need your math smarts to calculate time, distance, and speed, choose the best route and type of transit, figure out time zones, plan travel expenses; and more. It all adds up to a lot of fun!
4) 9 kilometers
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"As a young boy walks nine kilometers to school, he travels through the mountain and rain forest landscapes of southern Chile"--
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"Did you know that a colossal squid's eyeball is bigger than a basketball, or that your sneeze shoots out faster than a hurricane? 'How big is big? How far is far? All around me' moves through the world to find creative ways of explaining size, distance, weight, and speed to help introduce measurements to young children."--Back cover.
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The ancient Romans certainly had a hand--and foot--in the way we measure distance today, but modern technology has advanced measuring techniques considerably. Scientists have used nanotechnology to make the study of even minuscule distances more tangible. Readers discover this information and much more through text and illustrations as they learn about the concepts involved and the tools used to measure distance.
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This entertaining and educational title helps familiarize young readers with distance measurements. From yards, to miles, to leagues, the easy-to-read book offers engaging pictures and simple sentences to illustrate each type of measurement fully. In no time, young readers will be able to use each measurement system for themselves. Fun facts and a quick quiz give young readers additional reading and learning. Sandcastle is an imprint of ABDO Publishing...
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"The scale of things means how one thing compares in size to another. In this book, appealing illustrations help kids understand scale by taking them around the world--and even into space--to compare the distances that people have traveled on well-known journeys."--
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Much of our contemporary understanding of space systems dates back to Isaac Newton. It's surprising to think that the underpinnings of astronomy are centuries old. While for a time it seemed as though major discoveries in the field had stagnated, in the early twentieth century, scientists like Albert Einstein and Max Planck redefined our understanding of light waves. And in 1948 scientists developed a theory about how our entire universe came to be,...
12) Near or far
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Short passages about different habitats and locations introduce the concepts of near and far, from a boat near a beach to a mountain far away.
13) Lejos =: Far
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A country boy leaves home to visit the far-off city and the seashore even farther away as he enjoys a vacation with his father.
14) The planets are very, very, very far away: a journey through the amazing scale of the solar system
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"The solar system unfolds before your eyes in this cheeky, myth-busting book (grounded in real math)!"--
16) Racing around
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Mike proves he can ride his bike 15 kilometers as he participates in a race around the park's perimeter.
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"If you go out and simply look up, everything - from the Moon to the planets to the stars to the band of the Milky Way - appears to be pasted on the two-dimensional surface of the dome of the sky. Yet, the story of astronomy as a science is how, over time, astronomers have discovered the cosmos in depth. It is the story of the measurement of position and distance, and how our 2D view of the sky above us evolved into a more sophisticated comprehension...
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