measurement

Photographs and simple text introduces young readers to different ways to measure things.

Explains the metric system and shows how people all over the world use this system of measurement for a variety of purposes.

Chronicles how men and women over the course of two and a half millennia have attempted to measure the universe, looking at the context in which their discoveries were made; and explores how their adventures have changed ideas about the shape and nature of the universe and man's place in it.

Compares size, using body parts as units of measurement for comparison.

Compares distances, using familiar geographical distances as units of measurement for comparison.

Compares size, using familiar plants as the units of measurement for comparison.

Combines games and projects to describe how to measure length, area, and volume.

Explains how things are measured, with directions for making counting sticks, a growth chart, a sand-clock timer, water-glass chimes, and other projects.

Examines the ways that knowledge and measurement are interrelated by looking at what, why, and how we measure aspects of the world.

Surveys the history of measurement, exploring the meaning of measuring, with discussion of the metric system, customary units, number and mathematics, and instruments and techniques, and looking at measurements related to nature and man.