Don’t Just Learn Geometry…Master It!
Brimming with fun and educational games and activities, the Magical Math series provides everything you need to know to become a masterof mathematics! In each of these books, Lynette Long uses herunique style to help you truly understand mathematical concepts asyou use common objects such as playing cards, dice, coins, andevery mathematician’s basic tools: paper and pencil.
Inside Groovy Geometry, you’ll find all the geometry basics, plusinformation on how to figure out the height of any object from itsshadow, find distances ’as the crow flies, ’ estimate the area ofany space, and much more. While you play the Name Game and Rectangle Race, you’ll learn how to draw, measure, and identifydifferent kinds of angles, triangles, and quadrilaterals. And withfun activities like Bull’s Eye and Pizza Party, you’ll practiceplotting coordinate points on a graph and measuring the area anddiameter of a circle. Most important, you’ll have a great timedoing it!
So why wait? Jump right in and find out how easy it is to become amathematics master!
Innehållsförteckning
PART I: THE MAGIC OF GEOMETRY.
PART II: ANGLES.
Measure Up.
Draw It!
Name Game.
Angle Pairs.
Color by Angles.
Perpendicular Numbers.
Right Angle Scavenger Hunt.
PART III: TRIANGLES.
Triangle Collage.
Triangle Memory.
Triangle Angles.
Outside the Triangle.
Triangle Area.
Two the Same.
How Tall?
Perfect Squares.
Pythagorean Proof.
PART IV: QUADRILATERALS.
Crazy About Quadrilaterals.
Quadrilateral Angles.
String Shapes.
Double It!
Rectangle Race.
Parallelogram Presto Change-O.
Pattern Blocks.
Shape Storybook.
PART V: CIRCLES.
Around and Around.
Finding Pi.
Bicycle Odometer.
Circle Area.
Pizza Party.
Central Angles.
PART VI: SOLIDS.
Solid Shapes.
Cereal Surfaces.
Cylinder Surfaces.
Cube Construction.
Volume of a Cylinder.
Building Blocks.
PART VII: ODDS AND ENDS.
Shape Comparison.
Bull’s Eye.
Mystery Picture.
Number Symmetry.
Geometry Master Certificate.
Index.
Om författaren
Lynette Long, Ph.D., is the author of several children’s math books, including Fabulous Fractions, Measurement Mania, Dazzling Division, Marvelous Multiplication, and Delightful Decimals and Perfect Percents, all from Wiley. She has taught math and was a professor of education, specializing in mathematics education.
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