PowerMath

Provides information about different aspects of creating a park in a vacant city lot, and looks at how division is used to help accomplish various tasks.

Explains what latitude and longitude are and how they work, showing how to find global address coordinates on maps.

Provides an introduction to money management, and offers an opportunity to work with decimals and integers through a look at budgets, banks, and savings and checking accounts.

Photographs and text describe how math was used to solve problems relating to the Hoover Dam including how much concrete and other building materials were needed and the environmental issues that arose as a result of the dam.

Introduces the concept of expanded notation by providing facts about dinosaurs and the periods in which they walked the earth millions of years ago.

Looks at how temperatures are measured, and provides an introduction to positive and negative numbers through visits to places throughout the world that experience temperature extremes.

Explains how to make models of geometric solids as a means of understanding the history of pyramids around the world, and their construction.

Discusses the design and construction of the Mayan, Aztec, and Native American calendars.

Photographs, illustrations, and text describe how math is used in comparing and analyzing charts, graphs, and tables while learning how America's electoral system works.

Examines the history and buildings of Washington, D.C., and uses that study to explain how to measure the areas of rectangles.