Describes what length is and how it can be measured. Includes audio, videos, activities, weblinks, slideshows, transparencies, maps, quizzes, and supplementary resources.
"Introduce pre-readers to the math concept of length with eight goofy, non-standard measuring units, including kittens, toy airplanes, and gumballs. . . . composite photos and a sprinkling of text illustrate the length of a shark, a lemur tail, a crayon, and more"--Provided by publisher.
A humorous introduction to measurement, providing a definition of length, and discussing inches, feet, yards, millimeters, centimeters, decimeters, meters, and rulers.