How Big Is a Foot?
by Rolf Myller | 
Millions to Measure
by David M. Schwartz |
On Beyond a Million
by David M. Schwartz | 
What Is Mathematics? An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
by Richard Courant |
The Mathematical Universe
by William Dunham | 
An Introduction to Mathematics
by Alfred North Whitehead | 
How to Cut a Cake
by Ian Stewart | 
Anno's Magic Seeds
by Mitsumasa Anno | 
Letters to a Young Mathematician
by Ian Stewart |
Murderous Maths
by Kjartan Poskitt | 
Fractals, Googols, and Other Mathematical Tales
by Theoni Pappas | 
The Mathematical Tourist
by Ivars Peterson |
What's Your Angle, Pythagoras?
by Julie Ellis | 
Mathematics
by Timothy Gowers | 
The Grapes of Math
by Alex Bellos |
Spaghetti And Meatballs For All!
by Marilyn Burns | 
The Penny Pot
by Stuart J. Murphy |
Full House
by Dayle Ann Dodds | 
The King's Chessboard
by David Birch |
A Remainder of One
by Elinor J. Pinczes |
Lisa has an important homework assignment--to measure something in several different ways. She has to use standard units like inches and nonstandard units like paper clips to find out height, width, length, weight, volume, temperature, and time. Lisa decides to measure her dog, Penny, and finds out ...