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If : a mind-bending new way of looking at big ideas and numbers / (Record no. 350584)

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CONTROL NUMBER
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CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
control field CaOOAMICUS
DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
control field 20131202091929.0
FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION
fixed length control field 131121s2014 onca j 000 0 eng
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHIC AGENCY CONTROL NUMBER
Record control number 20139074988
CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency CaOONL
Language of cataloging eng
Description conventions rda
Transcribing agency CaOONL
CLASSIFICATION NUMBERS ASSIGNED IN CANADA
Classification number Q163
Item number S65 2014
DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number j500
Edition number 23
INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781894786348 (bound)
AUTHOR NAME
AUTHOR NAME Smith, David J.
TITLE STATEMENT
Title If : a mind-bending new way of looking at big ideas and numbers /
Statement of responsibility, etc written by David J. Smith ; illustrated by Steve Adams.
PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Toronto, ONT.
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Kids Can Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2014
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 40 pages :
Other physical details colour illustrations ;
Dimensions 24 cm.
SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc Some things are so huge or so old that it's hard to wrap your mind around them. But what if we took these big, hard-to-imagine objects and events and compared them to things we can see, feel and touch? Instantly, we'd see our world in a whole new way.? So begins this endlessly intriguing guide to better understanding all those really big ideas and numbers children come across on a regular basis. Author David J. Smith 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). Accompanying each description is a kid-friendly drawing by illustrator Steve Adams that visually reinforces the concept.

By simply reducing everything to human scale, Smith has made the incomprehensible easier to grasp, and therefore more meaningful. The children who just love these kinds of fact-filled, knock-your-socks-off books will want to read this one from cover to cover. It will find the most use, however, as an excellent classroom reference that can be reached for again and again when studying scale and measurement in math, and also for any number of applications in social studies, science and language arts. For those who want to delve a little deeper, Smith has included six suggestions for classroom projects. There is also a full page of resource information at the back of the book.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Astronomy.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element World History.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Population.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Natural Resources.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Natural History.
SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Children's Literature
-- Math
-- Measurement
-- Size
-- Time
-- Explanatory Text
-- Perspective
ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Adams, Steve,
Relator term Illustrator.
ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type 01. English Non Fiction
EQUIVALENCE OR CROSS-REFERENCE-PERSONAL NAME [LOCAL, CANADA]
Personal name Smith, David Julian,
Dates associated with a name 1944-
LOCAL PROCESSING INFORMATION (OCLC)
d 500 SMI
c 221
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