| View Larger Image | Mathematicians Are People, Too: Stories from the Lives of Great Mathematicians | Paperbackby Luetta Reimer (Author), Wilbert Reimer (Author)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Dale Seymour Publications | | Page Count: | 143 Pages | | Publication Date: | December 01, 1990 | | Sales Rank: | 123,678rd |
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Product Description
Stories in Volume One focus on moments of mathematical discovery experienced by Thales, Pythagoras, Hypatia, Galileo, Pascal, Germain, and still others. Volume Two dramatizes the lives of Omar Khayyam, Albert Einstein, Ada Lovelace, and others. 15 illustrated vignettes per book introduce students to great mathematicians from various cultures. Grades 3-7 Volume One |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 8 reviews)
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Get them interested... by Samantha Kelly (California)  5 Stars
December 13, 2008
This book is a great way to inspire your little people to love math, and strive for higher goals like the people they will be reading about.
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Bought for School by Donald C. Boyd Jr. (Ashland, Ky USA) 5 Stars
September 03, 2008
I bought this book for my wifes math class for college. She needed to write a research paper on one of the people in this book. She said it was a great resource for her research paper.
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Good for many ages and topics in math and science by Peach Powel  4 Stars
January 05, 2007
Mathematicians are People, Too has been a wonderful tool in introducing and enriching so many topics. There is a lot of useful information in this book and I have used it for both science and math lessons from the Pythagorean Theorem to density to women in the sciences, just to name a few.
The stories about real mathematicians brings a personal side to math and science and the reading of the stories brings added interest and diversity to the lessons.
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Mathematicians for young people by Louis Petrillo (West Haven, CT USA)  3 Stars
September 19, 2005
I bought this book for my godson in Georgia to help him get some perspective on the math that he's studying now. From what his father tells me this book is excellent. As a math major I of course already had heard of these anecdotes. My only question was whether they had been presented adequately for children.
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Great for a read-aloud by M. Christensen (Orem, UT United States) 5 Stars
December 21, 2004
This books is excellent for a read-aloud to your children about ages 7 or 8 to 12. (10 and up or so could read on their own.) I read a chapter aloud each week to my children, and when I felt they'd understand a mathematical principle, I would try to explain that to them as well. No, it's not going to teach them a ton of math, but it does build excitement and interest for math and it makes math seem more personable. And I really like it that they include famous women mathematicians.
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Stories in Volume One focus on moments of mathematical discovery experienced by Thales, Pythagoras, Hypatia, Galileo, Pascal, Germain, and still others. Volume Two dramatizes the lives of Omar Khayyam, Albert Einstein, Ada Lovelace, and others. 15 illustrated vignettes per book introduce students to great mathematicians from various cultures. Grades 3-7 Volume Two
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