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How many mice make an elephant? : and other big questions about size and distance
—Turner, Tracey, author.
2020

Book

Compares the relative sizes of and distances between animals, people, and objects on Earth and in space to provide children with basic understandings of related math principles.

Item Details

ISBN:

  • 9780753475652
  • 0753475650

Description: 48 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm

Notes: Includes index.

Contents:

  • Say hello to big numbers
  • How many. Mice make an elephant? ; Flights of stairs to the top of Mount Everest? ; Swimming pools in the ocean? ; Giraffes make the tallest skyscraper? ; Sandboxes in the Sahara Desert? ; High jumps to the moon? ; Kangaroo hops to cross Australia? ; Ice cubes make an iceberg? ; Christmas trees make a Coast Redwood? ; Planet Earths fit inside the Sun? ; Soccer balls fill the world's biggest stadium? ; Microraptors make a titanosaur? ; Central Parks make the Amazon Rain Forest? ; Astronauts fit inside the International Space Station? ; Goldfish make a blue whale? ; Soccer fields to cover planet Earth?
  • Jetpack journeys
  • Measuring in metric.

LCCN: bl2020018666

Control Number: 2910155

Publisher: London ; New York : Kingfisher, 2020.
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