Barss, Patchen
Summary: Encourages readers to examine and question the patterns that arise in nature, exploring such patterns as branching, spinning, and spiraling.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Owlkids Books 2018
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 516 BARDevadoss, Satyan L.
Summary: An authoriative guide to the mathematical shapes around us: how they're formed, how they're studied, and how they're applied to our everyday lives. With these lectures presented in three parts you will discover the intricate relationship between mathematics and nature, get a pointed introduction to the language mathematicians use to study shapes and dimensions, and learn how to finally make...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 516 SHARoss, Catherine Sheldrick
Summary: Collects three volumes introducing the basics of geometry, with a variety of activities illustrating the many types of circles, triangles, and squares encountered in everyday life, from the natural world to the one humans have engineered.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Kids Can Press 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 516 ROSFlatt, Lizann
Summary: As young readers journey into the natural world, they discover that numbers, patterns, shapes, and much more! These can be found in everyday plants and animals. What if animals and plants knew math, just like us? Would spiders draw pictures in their webs? Would narwhals sort blocks of ice by shape? Would insects know what's above and what's below? In Shaping Up Summer, the final title in the...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014