The author takes the concepts in the National Standards and places them under the microscope where the personalities and great moments of discovery can bring them to life.
18 lessons supplement regular math lessons, extending and enriching the curriculum. Topics include women, Archimedes, Babylonians and Egyptians, the abacus, angles, Pi, the calculator, codes, the decimal point Einstein, longitude & latitude, scientific notation, the missing planet, mean, median, mode, money, symbols of geo