Archimedes and the Door of Science
Author: Jeanne BendickAdd Your Comments on this Book
Description from Amazon.com: [Customer Review] I just got done reading this aloud to my homeschooled 6th grade twins. What a treasure! The author weaves together mathematical and scientific principles into a delightful story format. My kids had no trouble understanding the well-illustrated concepts.We used this book in our unit study on Ancient Greece. It just so happened, that during the reading, our Science lesson was on the six simple machines, a few of which Archimedes was the founder! As if all this isn't enough, my children took away with them an interesting outlook. We take the principles such as the center of gravity, buoyancy, pi, exponents, all that... [more at Amazon link below]
Description from Amazon.com: [Customer Review] I just got done reading this aloud to my homeschooled 6th grade twins. What a treasure! The author weaves together mathematical and scientific principles into a delightful story format. My kids had no trouble understanding the well-illustrated concepts.We used this book in our unit study on Ancient Greece. It just so happened, that during the reading, our Science lesson was on the six simple machines, a few of which Archimedes was the founder! As if all this isn't enough, my children took away with them an interesting outlook. We take the principles such as the center of gravity, buoyancy, pi, exponents, all that... [more at Amazon link below]Available Online: Amazon $7.99 (prices include shipping)
Check if it's available at your local library
Check if it's available at your local library
Related items at Amazon:
| Archimedes and the Door of Science (Living History Library) $10.17 New | Jeanne Bendick |
| Galen and the Gateway to Medicine (Living History Library) $10.17 New | Jeanne Bendick |
| Herodotus and the Road to History $11.16 New | Jeanne Bendick |
| Markets: From Barter to Bar Codes (First Books - Examining the Past) $15.76 Used | Jeanne Bendick |
| Mathematics Illustrated Dictionary: Facts, Figures, and People $20.95 New | Jeanne Bendick |
| How Much and How Many: The Story of Weights and Measures $7.49 Used | Jeanne Bendick |