A broken air conditioner can make summer a bummer, but that’s a breeze compared to living above Yellowstone’s supervolcano! In this information-rich volume, readers will meet plants and animals that call the world’s most extreme habitats home. This high-interest topic will attract even reluctant readers and those who might be a bit wary of math. Gorgeous photographs and interesting fact boxes illuminate the text, and engaging quiz questions throughout the text provide math challenges that feel like a g

A broken air conditioner can make summer a bummer, but that’s a breeze compared to living above Yellowstone’s supervolcano! In this information-rich volume, readers will meet plants and animals that call the world’s most extreme habitats home. This high-interest topic will attract even reluctant readers and those who might be a bit wary of math. Gorgeous photographs and interesting fact boxes illuminate the text, and engaging quiz questions throughout the text provide math challenges that feel like a g

Mutant frogs, paralyzing wasps, adventurous sea turtles and many other extreme creatures will amaze readers in this action-packed volume. They’ll also encounter fun math challenges as they learn about the weirdest life cycles in the plant and animal kingdoms. A helpful key is located at the end of the book for readers to check their answers. Stunning full-color photographs and fact boxes bursting with cool information will capture readers’ interest. The high-interest topic makes this cross-curricular text perfect for any library.

The plant kingdom isn’t all sunshine and daisies – some plants pack a punch with poison, stingers, sap, and other dangerous qualities! This thrilling volume will introduce readers to a wide variety of Earth’s weirdest and deadliest plants while incorporating fun math questions. Quiz bubbles make the math feel like a game, and a handy answer key at the back of the book allows readers to check their progress, encouraging an independent learning experience. Fact boxes teeming with cool information and vivid photographs will further captivate readers in this fun, cross-curricular text.

Bigger, faster, stronger, better! This information-rich volume teaches readers all the different ways creatures adapt to survive in their environments. Beautiful full-color photographs will attract readers and illuminate key concepts. Quiz questions pop up throughout the text to challenge readers with fun animal-related math problems. Even readers who are wary of math will enjoy the game-like structure of this text, and a helpful answer key lets readers check their answers at the end of the book to assess what they’ve learned.

Like Douglas Hofstadter’s Gödel, Escher, Bach, and David Berlinski’s A Tour of the Calculus, Euclid in the Rainforest combines the literary with the mathematical to explore logic—the one indispensable tool in man’s quest to understand the world. Underpinning both math and science, it is the foundation of every major advancement in knowledge since the time of the ancient Greeks. Through adventure stories and historical narratives populated with a rich and quirky cast of characters, Mazur artfully reveals the less-than-airtight nature of logic and the muddled relationship between math and the real world. Ultimately, Mazur argues, logical reasoning is not purely robotic. At its most basic level, it is a creative process guided by our intuitions and beliefs about the world.