Explore Shapes and Angles!: With 25 Great Projects
By Jeanette Moore and Matt Aucoin
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In Explore Shapes and Angles! With 25 Great Projects, readers ages 7 to 10 will have fun identifying the shapes and angles in their world. They’ll also learn how these shapes and angles are used in different situations and in different jobs, such as construction, engineering, and art.
A kid’s world is made of shapes and angles—by encouraging readers to become savvy at identifying and using the different shapes, this book serves as the perfect introduction to geometry and a way to build a strong foundation in math skills that will serve them well as they are exposed to increasingly more complicated concepts. Hands-on, design-minded projects, such as designing a tree house, offer opportunities to discover how engineers and designers use shapes and angles to create strong structures. Readers are encouraged to use blocks, bodies, and yoga to mimic geometric shapes and find combinations so strong they’ll even hold up heavy weights.
Links to online resources, fun facts, cartoon illustrations, and compelling content drive this introduction to basic geometry that will help children begin to establish a spatial relationship with real-world math and make it fun!
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Explore Shapes and Angles! - Jeanette Moore
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CONTENTS
Timeline
Introduction
Geometry through History
Chapter 1
Moving, Bending, Stretching Geometry!
Chapter 2
Angles in the Classroom
Chapter 3
Measuring Your Home and Yard
Chapter 4
Ship-Shapes in the Neighborhood
Chapter 5
A Wide World of Geometry
Glossary * Metric Conversions
Resources * Essential Questions * Index
Interested in primary sources? Look for this icon.
Use a smartphone or tablet app to scan the QR code and explore more! You can find a list of URLs on the Resources page.
If the QR code doesn’t work, try searching the Internet with the Keyword Prompts to find other helpful sources.
KEYWORD PROMPTS
TIMELINE
3000–500 BCE
Egyptians use geometry to measure amounts of crops. They also use math to build pyramids, tombs, and other structures.
1680–1620 BCE:
A scribe named Ahmes writes math documents about area and volume.
2000–500 BCE:
Ancient Babylonians make a list, since called Plimpton 322, that has geometric ideas on it about cubic measurement.
1500–200 BCE:
Indian mathematics is written in the ancient text of the Sulbasutras, including many measurement problems and methods for finding out the dimensions of circles.
1100-600 BCE:
Ancient Chinese mathematicians study right angles and triangles.
570–560 BCE:
Pythagoras of Samos travels the world to discover information about math and science. He is noted to be the Father of the Right Triangle,
though other people had discovered this before him.
400 BCE:
Euclid writes his famous book, The Elements, which is the foundation of the geometry we learn in school today.
350 BCE:
Hypatia is one of the first known female mathematicians. She studies geometry and translates classical mathematics books.
250 CE:
Liu Hui uses a polygon with 384 sides to figure out pi! He writes it in the book, Nine Chapters.
1637:
Rene Descartes writes Discourse on the Method and studies Euclid’sdimensions.
1776-1831:
Sophie Germain studies geometry and is the first woman to win a prize from the French Academy of Sciences.
1815-1852:
Ada Lovelace works with Charles Babbage on patterns in math. She writes what is considered to be the world’s first computer program.
1800-1900:
Fractals are known as shapes found in clouds and fem plants. Once computers are invented, fractals are understood more.
1882-1935:
Emmy Noether is called a mathematical genius by Albert Einstein. She creates the general foundation for Einstein’s theory of relativity. She earns a PhD in math, but cannot get a job because she is female and Jewish.
1905:
Albert Einstein creates the theory of relativity. There are many curves, spheres, and shapes in this theory.
1963:
Paul Cohen studies the continuum hypothesis, which states that numbers can go beyond infinity! This means they can go without limit.
2014:
Maryam Mirzakhani becomes the first woman to be awarded the prestigious fields Medal, awarded every four years to a young mathematition.
INTRODUCTION
GEOMETRY THROUGH HISTORY
Did you know you have been doing math since you were born? Geometry can be found everywhere in our world and we begin noticing it even as babies! Geometry was there in the bars of your crib, the round bowl of mushed peas you threw on the kitchen floor, and even within the space taken up by the liquid in your cup.
WORDS TO KNOW
geometry: the math related to shapes, surfaces, points, lines, and solids.
point: a spot in space or on a line.
lines: many points in a row that make one length.
length: the measure of something from one end to the other, or how long something is.
mathematics: the study of ideas related to numbers. Mathematicians study mathematics.
Geometry is a type of mathematics that we find all around us. In fact, geometry shows us the size of the earth and the size or amount of everything that’s on the earth. Wherever you are right now as you read this, you are surrounded by geometry!
GE-OM-ET-RY
The word geometry
has four syllables. Try saying it: Ge-om-et-ry. Let’s take a look at all the parts of this word. Ge is an ancient Greek word meaning Earth.
The syllables -metry
are an ending, or suffix. It shows that the word geometry
has to do with a system. It comes from the ancient Greek word metria. That word is similar to the word measure,
which is one of the definitions of metria. When you measure something, you are figuring out how big something is, how much space it takes up, or how much it weighs.
Look across the room at an object. What do you see? How far away do you think it could be? Think about that object’s shape. What is the size? These questions and thoughts are about geometry. You see—you are a mathematician, a person who studies math! Let’s learn how geometry was part of our past.