Measuring Up!: Experiments, Puzzles, and Games Exploring Measurement

By Sandra Markle

Book Overview

How big would a bed have to be to accommodate the NBA's tallest player, Manute Bol? How does cold weather affect a baseball's performance? Questions like these make math fun, as Sandra Markle demonstrates in this collection of hands-on brainteasers and activities that involve measuring distances, size, weight, quantities and temperature. Measuring Up! is proof that knowing how to figure measurements is useful in everything we do. Full-color photos.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689319045
• ISBN13: 9780689319044
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 8.3" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 9 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 4 to 7