Provides an introduction to maps explaining scale; using a compass; longitude and latitude; measuring elevation, depth, and astronomical units ; and related math concepts.
Explains what maps are and how to read them, identifies the different symbols found on maps, looks at how maps are made, and provides instructions for mapping a classroom, school, neighborhood, town, state, and country. Includes activities.
When a series of mysterious deaths shakes her island community, thirteen-year-old Isabella, daughter to the island's only mapmaker, leads a party of explorers into the forest, where legends Isabella has grown up with show signs of coming to life.
Math has always been key to warfare. From making sure an army has enough supplies to recording casualties and damage, discover how math and calculations lie at the heart of warfare.
The summer before starting middle school, when eleven-year-old Goldenrod Moram sets out to make a very accurate map of the forest behind her home, she discovers a band of troublemakers, a mysterious old lady, and the ghost of her explorer idol.
