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Mathematicians are People, Too, volumes one and two

Publisher: Pearson Learning Group
Author: by Luetta Reimer and Wilbert Reimer
Review last updated: 2009
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Mathematicians are People, Too

Biographical anecdotes and folklore combine in these stories about mathematicians. Each story uses an incident, discovery, or other such hook to provide the human dimension to some mathematical idea. For example, we read about Pythagoras paying his first student so that he might have the opportunity to teach, then becoming a popular teacher who had some intriguing ideas about numbers and their relationship to the universe.

Among mathematicians introduced in volume one are Thales, Archimedes, Galileo, Newton, Euler, and Evariste Galois. Math concepts that show up in this volume are geometry, number systems and number theory, algebra, computation and estimation, probability and statistics, measurement, and mathematical symbols.

Volume two introduces Euclid, Descartes, Benjamin Banneker, Albert Einstein, and others touching on geometry, algebra, number systems and theory, probability, calculators and computers, and calculus.

Women in mathematics are featured in both books. Some stories will be appropriate for the elementary grades, while others are better saved for junior and senior high when the concepts are more familiar. Each book is 144 pages long, so there are quite a few stories from which to choose. These books help students relate to math, building a bridge from the world of abstractions to the world of real people.

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Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians

Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians

Paperback,Luetta Reimer

Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians

Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians

Paperback,Luetta Reimer

Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians, Vol. 2

Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians, Vol. 2

Paperback,Luetta Reimer

Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians, Vol. 2

Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians, Vol. 2

Paperback,Luetta Reimer

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  • Learning Styles: Wiggly  Willy and Sociable Sue
    Suitable for: 
    math supplement--best for read aloud, but students might read these independently
    Audience:
    ages 8 and up
    Need for parent/teacher instruction: 
    only for read aloud
    Prep time needed:
    0
    Need for Teacher's Manual:  N/A
    Religious perspective:
    secular

Publisher's Info

  • Pearson Learning Group

    PO Box 2500
    Lebanon, IN 46052

    (800) 393-3156
    www.pearsonlearning.com