What Are You Figuring Now?: A Story about Benjamin Banneker

by Jeri Chase Ferris

Book Overview

A biography of the Afro-American farmer and self-taught mathematician, astronomer, and surveyor for the new capital city of the United States in 1791, who also calculated a successful almanac notable... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876143311
• ISBN13: 9780876143315
• Release Date: January 1988
• Publisher: Carolrhoda Books
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 8 to 11 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 6

Customer Reviews

An excellent biography for children!

My mother bought me these books when I was in the 3rd grade. They got me through many book reports and biography assignments in elementary school. I had never heard of Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth or Benjamin Banneker before. Even now that I am in college I remember things I learned from these books! I can't listen to a lecture on Washington D.C., slavery or African-Americans and not think about this book! These books are simple enough for any child to understand, and it might just spark they're interest in history too.

What Are You Figuring Now-Teaching History Through Literatur

The story of Benjamin Banneker has been a great addition to my class. I teach 7th,8th grade resource special education students in an economically disadvantaged part of rural east Texas. We read the story and study it with the use of vocabulary and questions which I have developed. The story is well written and easy enough for my slow readers to enjoy. I am very pleased to be able to teach history in this manner. My class is a reading class but we are able to use this simple book as a jumping off place to teach invention, hard work, overcoming obstacles and a myriad of other character building concepts. Highly recommended...