A teddy bear uses flags, presents, buttons, balls, and coins to teach different shapes.
Three mice make a variety of things out of different shapes as they hide from a scary cat.
Winner of the Mathical Book Prize for books that inspire children to see math all around them. "This is one shape book that will both challenge readers' thinking and encourage them to think outside the box."--Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review
We are shapes! We balance, we stack, and best of all, we work together! -- cover
They push and pull and tumble and cry for help. Who will save them? One special shape can set the others free. Can you guess which one it is? This charming story makes learning the names of sixteen shapes as easy as a day in the park.
Can ancient Greek proportions predict the stock market? (Sorry, no.) What should your kids learn in school if they really want to learn to think? All these are questions about geometry. For real.
"The soul never thinks without an image," claimed Aristotle. Indeed, as Angeles Arrien displays in this reissued edition of Signs of Life, shapes have significant psychological and mythological meanings embedded...
Diana Murray's richly crafted yet playful verse encourages readers to discover shapes in the most surprising places, and Bryan Collier's dynamic collages add even more layers to each scene in this ode to city living.
This book should be paired with "Shapes at the Store" (9781477719732) from the InfoMax Math Readers Program to provide the alternative point of view on the same topic.
1.13: What shape is a pebble? would seem to be stumped: it's no good saying it is 'round all over', since the same is true of an egg. But, geometrically, we can say that it is 'a line in a flat plane that is everywhere an equal distance ...
Teaching children about shapes is the first step in understanding geometry. As children build their knowledge of shapes, open and closed shapes, identifying shapes bynameand appearance, shapecomparisons, solid versus planar surfaces, ...