Charlesbridge Math Adventures: What's Your Angle, Pythagoras? (Paperback)

from mapalumbo

What's your Angle, Pythagoras? is a great book for young learners to discover the mathematical properties of the right angle. Young Pythagoras discovers the right angle and right triangle while on a trip to Alexandria, Egypt and returns home to help the town builders solve a few problems. The boo...

from Skaide1

I had mixed feelings about this book after reading it. I liked the book because it is a good way of implementing literature into a mathematics lesson. The book pushes readers to think about perspectives like math equations, without reading it directly from a textbook. For example, when the two wo...

from kgeorge

"What's Your Angle, Pythagoras?" discusses the concept of the Pythagorean Theorem. The author tells the story of Pythagoras, a young boy, who is very inquisitive about the problems encountered by those around him and is determined to find a solution. He uses patterns to develop the Pythagorean Th...

from BethWal94

In this historical fiction book, a boy named Pythagoras sees all these different issues in a different light than other people. As he goes out to Crete with his father to see a master builder, the builder tells him about how he makes things straight and level when he builds. Because of this, Pyth...

from TaraKennedy

This was a fictional account of how a young Pythagoras discovered the Pythagorean Theorem regarding right triangles. There are some really awesome pictures illustrating the theorem in a visual way as well that were great! It had a nice story line that was interesting with a conflict (different pr...