Math Counts
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Photographs of familiar objects introduce basic shapes of squares, circles, rectangles, and triangles.
This series looks at how and why we measure, encouraging children to discover for themselves how standard measuring sytems have developed. Children can make their own measuring tools, based on authentic ancient and modern instruments. There are experiments to try and a list of important events shows the history of measuring. The book is suitable for National Curriculum Science, Maths and History at Key Stage 2. This book examines size, from the ancient weighing machines to weightlessness in space, including the history of measuring volume, capacity and weight.
Children can become mathematical problem solvers, learning to communicate and reason mathematically, by using the Math Counts series.