If someone handed you a big bowl of jelly beans, how would you figure out how many there are? You could count them, one by one―or you could estimate. Do you see more than five jelly beans? Less than a million?
We use estimation in Math when the exact answer to a problem is not required. The said problem can be resolved with an approximately realistic value. Estimating also helps us get the answer to a calculation faster.
Young readers will enjoy discovering all of the different spirals in nature in this book.
What makes the tiny snail shell so beautiful? Why does that shape occur in nature over and over again—in rushing rivers, in a flower bud, even inside your ear?
Whether it’s “wishes + frosting = birthday” or “birds + buds = spring,” each equation is a small delight. This proves that life’s total experience is always greater than the sum of its parts.
This book can be used to introduce equations or even some basic life lessons. Its warm and amusing tone invites readers to come up with their own life equations
Parents will surely appreciate this one: blaming + eye rolling =/sincere apology
Recognized as the father of analytic geometry, René Descartes was a French mathematician and philosopher. Kids will love this funny and very accessible tale – based on one of math’s greatest myths – about the man who popularized the Cartesion system of coordinates.
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