If...: A Mind-Bending New Way of Looking at Big Ideas and Numbers (Hardcover)

from pataustin

Big ideas and big numbers really are too big to understand, so David Smith scales them down to make them comprehensible. Scale, which is a concept useful for architects, engineers, medical researchers, and model builders, is also is a part of numeracy. In the comparisons the author draws, he enab...

from kvelin

I really like this book! It takes big ideas and data from around the world and puts them into perspective for students. Would be a great read aloud before talking about scales or even how architects draw building plans to scale.

from Booksrme

Useful for explaining matters with Alexandra and Tyler

from paula-childrenslib

Author has found clever devices to scale down everything from time lines (the history of Earth compressed into one year), to quantities (all the wealth in the world divided into one hundred coins), to size differences (the planets shown as different types of balls).

from Sullywriter

Great job reducing difficult concepts and huge numbers to concepts children can appreciate and understand.