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How do we measure matter?

Lynn Peppas (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427191083

This innovative title supports both math and science standards. Readers learn to identify different tools used to measure matter, such as balances, rulers, and thermometers. Easy to follow text helps readers gain hands-on experience measuring, collecting and recording data, and graphing their results.

I eat a rainbow / Me como un arco iris

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427195890

By introducing young readers to the colors of food, they also learn about healthy eating. Eating fruits and vegetables in as many colors of the rainbow everyday ensures that we get all of the important vitamins and nutrients we need to stay healthy.

How are they the same?

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427196637

This fascinating book challenges children to identify similarities and differences in the patterns, textures, and body parts of animals, as well as in the way certain animals begin life, such as hatching from eggs. A fun activity asks young readers to compare illustrations of dinosaurs and identify how they are the same.

I eat a rainbow

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778791836

By introducing young readers to the colors of food, they also learn about healthy eating. Eating fruits and vegetables in as many colors of the rainbow everyday ensures that we get all of the important vitamins and nutrients we need to stay healthy.

My toys have shapes

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778791843

Children will discover that two-dimensional shapes are all around them even inside their toy boxes! Young readers will learn about nine different shapes, and an activity asks them to find shapes in a page full of toys.

Polygons

Marina Cohen (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427195036

Polygons are shapes with a number of sides joined together. They are everywhere! A baseball field is a diamond-shaped polygon. Join Emily at a baseball game and look for different shapes. She discovers that the field is full of much more than baseball players - it's filled with polygons, too.

Area

Dorianne Nardi, Marsha Arvoy (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9781427194992

What is area? It is a measure of space or of a place! The kids in Mrs. Jacksons class are learning all about area, and you can, too. See why area is important, what it is used for, and how to measure area in meaningful ways. Soon you will be measuring area in your own everyday experiences.

Slides, Flips, and Turns

Claire Piddock (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778791621

Sofia makes a special birthday card for her Grandma by sliding, flipping, and turning shapes. Using the same simple steps, young children will learn about transformations as well as concepts such as diagonal, horizontal, and vertical.

Symmetry

Lynn Peppas (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778797692

Simple text and colorful photos make learning important concepts easy. Familiar two- and three-dimensional geometric shapes and their properties from home and school are used to introduce children to symmetry and asymmetry, lines of symmetry, and congruence.

Lines, Segments, Rays, and Angles

Claire Piddock (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778791577

Grace and Ethan are going to the fair with their Aunt Sarah. Lines and angles are everywhere they look. Young readers will love to follow along with them and learn what lines and angles are.

Math Words and Symbols

Lynn Peppas (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778797654

Through real-life situations, children will be introduced to the vocabulary of math words and symbols. Fundamental vocabulary such as "greater than" and "less than," and the meaning of symbols such as +, /, =, are all explained with engaging photographs and easy-to-understand text.

Sorting

Lynn Peppas (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778797678

In this book, young readers will grasp how to count, sort, classify, and organize various sets of items through engaging, everyday activities that kids can relate to. Through simple text and colorful photographs children are introduced to systems for sorting sets of shapes, colors, sizes.

Measurement

Penny Dowdy (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778790211

Colorful photographs of measuring tools show the reader how they can measure using common tools at home. This book offers the young reader a clear insight into understanding length, weight, capacity, and temperature.

Geometry

Penny Dowdy (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778790204

Colorful photographs show the reader how they can understand the properties and relations of points, lines, surfaces, solids, and higher dimensional analogs.

What shape is it?

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778789413

The sun, moon, and Earth are circles and spheres, and the wings of butterflies contain triangles. This book shows amazing examples of shapes found in nature.

Is it big or small?

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778789376

This introductory book uses brilliant, close up images of plants, animals, and people to help children compare the relative sizes and weights of natural objects.to describe these properties.

What color is it?

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778789390

This entertaining new book shows examples in nature that correspond with each color in the rainbow. Children will also learn how to combine certain colors to make new colors.

Is it the same or different?

Bobbie Kalman (author)

Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company ISBN: 9780778789383

Classification is one of the first skills that children need to learn. This fun book asks children to observe different creatures to see what makes them the same and different.