How far could you hop? If you hopped like a frog...you could jump from home plate to first base in one mighty leap! Did you know that a frog can jump 20 times its body length? Or that an ant can lift an object 50 times its own weight? Read this book and find out what you could do -- if you had the amazing abilities of animals! And there are endless possibilities for making more hilarious comparisons of your own. Get ready for ratio and proportion like you've never seen them before!
Explains the meaning of mathematical terms which begin with the different letters of the alphabet from abacus, binary, and cubit to zillion.
This is a new kind of holiday book -- a Halloween book for November instead of October.
Explores the many different ways of looking at the number one-thousand through estimation rather than actual counting to help children develop an understanding of numeracy. Reprint.
This book reveals how big a bowl would be needed to hold a million goldfish, or how many years it would take to count to a million.
Introduces, in simple text and photographs, the stems or roots of radishes, oaks, blackberries, peas, milkweed, corn, and strawberries.
Briefly describes the physical characteristics and behavior of the ladybug, from the egg to the adult beetle.
Revenge edition. The original story, a hapless French translation, and Twain's hilarious "retranslation" from the French. 12 illustrations.
Explores counting by powers of ten all the way up to the largest numbers that exist.
If You Made a Million Have you ever wanted to make a million dollars?
With rapidly increasing numbers of frogs coming out of her basement, Nana Quimby asks assorted neighborhood children for help, but finally it is up to her to come up with a solution.