Text and pictures try to make possible the conceptualization of a million, a billion, and a trillion.
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The amazing transformation of Jack from grinning pumpkin to mold-mottled wreckage to hopeful green shoot tells the story of decomposition. Features a teacher guide.
Describes the various forms which money can take, including coins, paper money, and personal checks, and how it can be used to make purchases, pay off loans, or build interest in the bank.
Introduces the concept of ratio by comparing what humans would be able to do if they had bodies like different animals.
Explores the concepts of ratio and proportion by growing or shrinking various objects by the same amounts, for example if the moon were the size of a marble Earth would be the size of a baseball.
A sixty-six-year-old grandfather, barred from entering the 1000-mile Tour of Sweden because of his age, unofficially joins the bicycle race and, to the delight of his countrymen, emerges victorious.
Describes the various forms which money can take, including coins, paper money, and personal checks, and how it can be used to make purchases, pay off loans, or build interest in the bank.
Photographs, rhyming text, and gatefold pages illustrate how animals use camouflage to blend in with their natural environments and hide from predators.
Read along with four stories featuring counting. Chicka chick 1, 2, 3: When one hundred and one numbers race each other up the apple tree, bumblebees come buzzing. Which number will save the day? Emily's first 100 days of school: School begins and as the days and weeks go by, Emi...
Marvelosissimo the Magician explains the development of standard units of measure, and shows the simplicity of calculating length, height, weight, and volume using the metric system.
Explores counting by powers of ten all the way up to the largest numbers that exist.
Explains the meaning of mathematical terms which begin with the different letters of the alphabet from abacus, binary, and cubit to zillion.
Introduces, in simple text and photographs, the feathers or fur of a yellow warbler, porcupine, skunk, white-tailed deer, flying squirrel, owl, and dalmatian.
Introduces, in simple text and photographs, the mouths of a puffin, child, housefly, dragonfly nymph, butterfly, chameleon, and alligator or caiman.