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Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Marilyn Burns
Contents Chart
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Lessons
Scholastic Book of Lists: Fun Facts, Weird Trivia,
and Amazing Lists on Nearly Everything
You Need to Know!
Chocolate: Riches from the Rainforest
Cubes, Cones, Cylinders, and Spheres
Everybody Loves Ice Cream: The Whole Scoop
on America’s Favorite Treat
Fantastic Feats and Failures
Go Figure! A Totally Cool Book About Numbers
G Is for Googol: A Math Alphabet Book
If You Hopped Like a Frog
The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens:
Eight Steps to Having More Money Than
Your Parents Ever Dreamed Of
A Negro League Scrapbook
One Thousand Paper Cranes: The Story of
Sadako and the Children’s Peace Statue
Telling Time
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Additional Ideas
200% of Nothing: An Eye-Opening Tour
Through the Twists and Turns of Math Abuse
and Innumeracy
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The All-New Book of Lists for Kids
The Breakfast Cereal Gourmet
Gutsy Girls: Young Women Who Dare
The History of Everyday Life
If the World Were a Village: A Book About
the World’s People
If You Made a Million
The Joy of p
Leonardo’s Horse
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
The Man Who Made Parks: The Story of
Parkbuilder Frederick Law Olmsted
Made You Look: How Advertising Works
and Why You Should Know
Mathematical Scandals
The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical
Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems,
and Personalities
Numbers: Facts, Figures and Fiction
The Popcorn Book
What Happened to the Mammoths? And Other
Explorations of Science in Action
Blackline Masters
Attribute Block Probabilities Record Sheet
Chipping Away at Chocolate Chips Record Sheet
Centimeter Square Dot Paper
Isometric Dot Paper
Everybody Loves Ice Cream Record Sheet
Centimeter Grid Paper
Go Figure! Record Sheet
Instructions for Wreath and Pinwheel Origami
Polygons
G Is for Googol; S Is for Symmetry Record Sheet
If You Hopped Like a Frog Task List
The Motley Fool Investment Guide for Teens
Record Sheet
A Negro League Scrapbook Record Sheet
Coordinate Axes Grid Paper
How to Make a (Basic) Origami Bird
Telling Time Record Sheet
Venn Diagram Template
Toy Prices Record Sheet
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Inch Grid Paper
Cereal Box Evaluation
If the World Were a Village Topic Cards
Approximating Pi Record Sheet
The Joy of ␲ Additional Circles
Leonardo’s Horse Record Sheet
The Librarian Who Measured the Earth
Record Sheet
Made You Look Record Sheet
Princess Dido’s City Record Sheet
Guidelines for Favorite Number Report
What Happened to the Mammoths?
Record Sheet
References
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