28 August 2009

Maths with Literature

We tend to use anything that will suit for math, blame it on the years of using Miquon Maths, and so the next week or so we are diverting off on a math tangent {grin} using the books below to tie in with our recent study of Archimedes and the Door of Science.
Sir Cumference and the First Round Table.
Sir Cumference and The Dragon of Pi.
both By Cindy Neuschwander
(Here are some extras from Homeschoolshare for anyone interested)

Fractals, Googols & Other Mathematical TalesBy Theoni Pappas
PG 28-29 the Story of Pi

What's Your Angle Pythagoras?
By Julie Ellis

Eratosthenes: The Librarian who Measured The Earth
By Kathryn Lasky

Sir Cumference and the Great Knight of Angleland
By Cindy Neuschwander

A Place for Zero – A Math AdventureBy Angeline Sparagna LoPresti

Fractals, Googols & Other Mathematical TalesBy Theoni Pappas
PG 34-35 The Story of Zero












Bobbi’s current reader, and telling us the interesting bits, is
Murderous Maths – Vicious Circles and other Savage Shapes
By Kjartan Poskitt

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