| If You Hopped Like a Frog Contributor(s): Schwartz, David M. (Author), Warhola, James (Illustrator) |
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ISBN: 0590098578 ISBN-13: 9780590098571 Publisher: Scholastic Press OUR PRICE: $16.19 Product Type: Hardcover Published: September 1999 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: A frog can jump 29 times its body length. Also, an ant can lift an object 50 times its weight. By applying these ratios and proportions to their own bodies, readers will discover what they could do if they had the amazing abilities of animals. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Nonfiction | Mathematics - General |
| Dewey: 513.24 |
| LCCN: 98046546 |
| Lexile Measure: 740 |
| Series: If You... |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 8.8" W x 11.24" (0.89 lbs) 32 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 2482 Reading Level: 3.4 Interest Level: Lower Grades Point Value: 0.5 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: If you hopped like a frog.... you could jump from home plate to first base in one mighty leap If you lifted like an ant...you could lift a car If you grew as much in your first nine months of life as you grew in the nine months before you were born...you would weigh more than 2 1/2 million elephants and would be taller than a mountain Did you know that a frog can jump 20 times its body length? Or that an ant can lift 50 times its weight? Or that a baby's weight increases 3 1/2 billion times during the nine months before it is born?These are but a few of the outrageous ratios that will amaze everyone Students and teachers alike will have hours of fun exploring these delightful comparisons -- and inventing endless others of their own David Schwartz has written the book in simple statements. And with a stretch of his imagination, artist James Warhola takes off on these wacky what if situations as he literally depicts the super-humans that would exist if people had the same super qualities as animals. For more serious math buffs, the author provides pages at the back of the book with equations and scientific facts that show just how these wacky but fascinating ratios are measured. As with How Much Is a Million?, this is another math book with endless possibilities for involving and exciting math lessons. Teachers will love this as much as their students will |