If You Hopped Like a Frog

by David M. Schwartz

Book Overview

If you hopped like a frog.... you could jump from home plate to first base in one mighty leap If you lifted like an ant...you could lift a car If you grew as much in your first nine months of life as you grew in the nine months before you were born...you would weigh more than 2 1/2 million elephants and would be taller than a mountain Did you know that a frog can jump 20 times its body length? Or that an ant can lift 50 times its weight? Or that a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0590098578
• ISBN13: 9780590098571
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Scholastic Press
• Length: 32 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.8" x 11.2"
• Age Range: 7 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 2 to 5

Customer Reviews

Great for Middle School Math Class

I use this book to introduce proportional reasoning. I've created activities that extend the ideas. Great book...even for older kids.

Wonderful

I am a high school math teacher and I use this book to help my freshmen learn about ratios and proportions. They use the proportions to calculate how much they could swallow, how far they could jump, etc. They're astonished at the results!

This Is An Amazing Book

This book offers a look at the wonders of the natural world by comparing the capabilities of many different animals and birds in human terms. The concept, together with the large and vivid illustrations hooked me from the beginning. This book really challenges a child to think and causes an adult to marvel at God's creations. "If you hopped like a frog...you could jump from home plate to first base in one mighty leap!...If you grew as fast in your first nine months as you did in the nine months before you were born...you would have been...heavier than 2 1/2 million elephants!" Just imagine that!

If You Hopped Like a Frog

This book was so enjoyable! The pictures were great!It gave you facts, and then expanded on those facts to give you information how it would affect you. As a teacher, I could use this book as an introduction and then have my students make a spin-off class book.