Math and nonfiction

"Provides lessons that link mathematics with nonfiction. Topics include collecting and analyzing data; using proportional reasoning; and exploring linear and exponential growth, probability, and relationships between two- and three-dimensional objects, pi, and more. Each lesson includes an overview of the nonfiction title, a discussion of the lesson's mathematical focus, a description of the activity, and samples of student work"--Provided by publisher.

Includes blackline masters.

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.

200% of nothing: an eye-opening tour through the twists and turns of math abuse and innumeracy -- 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 pi -- 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 -- Mat…