Adventures in Mathopolis
4 total works
Elementary-level maths becomes an exercise in fun when children open this humorous, cartoon-illustrated fantasy. As students enjoy the stories, they encounter one maths word problem after another, and they learn to think, calculate, and come up with the right answers. Mayor Lostis Marbles is back again, looking for problem-solving help. This book's superhero and problem solver is the fifteen-year-old, skateboard-riding Kent Clark, also known as Edge Master. He helps the mayor fight the underworld Shiftless gang. In the process, they solve problems involving angles, polygons, triangles, quadrangles, squares, prisms, and pyramids.
Estimating and Measuring
by Karen Ferrell, Cathy Weiskopf, and Linda Powley
Published 1 September 2009
In this brand-new "Adventures in Mathopolis" story, the town's befuddled Mayor Lostis Marbles is having all kinds of trouble dealing with fractions and decimals - and with a new dilemma: how to get out of a locked safe before it's too late! This time superheroes Silver Splitter and Dixie Dot come to the rescue, and readers who follow this fun-filled story will learn how to solve the many mysteries of fractions and decimals along the way. Discover easy ways to: understand proper, improper, and mixed numbers; find the least common multiple in fractions; add, subtract, multiply, and divide fractions; understand decimals; and, convert from decimals to fractions, and back again. This amusing Mathopolis story is enhanced with clever black-and-white illustrations. Kids learn along with Mayor Lostis Marbles and his gang that working with fractions and decimals can be fun.
Elementary-level math becomes an exercise in fun when children open this humorous, cartoon-illustrated fantasy. As students enjoy the stories, they encounter one maths word problem after another, and they learn to think, calculate, and come up with the right answers. Lostis Marbles, the mayor of Mathopolis, loves numbers but usually gets them all mixed up-until two Superheroes come to his rescue. They are Elexus Estimator, who is quick at estimating volume, height, weight, and the like ...and Maverick Measurer, who values accuracy above all else when making maths calculations. As children read the stories, they too will work out answers to the mayor's many problems.