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Genre/Form: | Sophisticated picture books Literature Juvenile works Juvenile literature Fiction |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Neuschwander, Cindy. Sir Cumference and the dragon of pi. Watertown, MA : Charlesbridge, 1999 (OCoLC)894797008 |
Material Type: | Elementary and junior high school, Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Cindy Neuschwander; Wayne Geehan |
ISBN: | 1570911665 9781570911668 1570911649 9781442014428 1442014423 9781570911644 9780613352284 0613352289 9780756951764 0756951763 |
OCLC Number: | 40762506 |
Description: | 32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm |
Series Title: | Charlesbridge math adventures |
Responsibility: | by Cindy Neuschwander ; illustrated by Wayne Geehan. |
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A math myth to teach pi
I am such a math nerd--I love this book! I love the names of the characters (Sir Cumference and his son Radius, Geo Metry and his brother Sym, Lady Di of Ameter, etc.) and the way the author tells a fairy tale about a knight turning into a dragon when he drinks a potion, and really it's a funny...
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I am such a math nerd--I love this book! I love the names of the characters (Sir Cumference and his son Radius, Geo Metry and his brother Sym, Lady Di of Ameter, etc.) and the way the author tells a fairy tale about a knight turning into a dragon when he drinks a potion, and really it's a funny way to explain the meaning of the mathematical value/symbol "π." ("pi"--in case my inserted symbol doesn't translate in cyberspace)
My only real quibble with this picture book, well, I have two: the reverse potion poem has problems with its meter and is a little hard to read out loud, and the illustrations look a little pixelated as though someone scanned images of paintings and then tried to blow them up a little too far. But otherwise, I think this book is great! Perfect for reading to elementary age kids, and I think it could even work (with the right group of kids) in a math class about to embark upon the new and strange world of irrational numbers. Woohoo! (Hey--I already admitted to being a math nerd.)
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