Weights & Measures
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Yardstick Nation: The Metric System in America
$27.95 Add to cartWhy is there no metric system in the United States? Why is it that a country known for its openness to the future, its scientific innovations, and its preference for practicality has not adopted the m… [more below]
- Author: Vera, Hector
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 298
- Publish Date: May 15 2025
- ISBN10: 0826507832
- Language: English
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Down in the Blue Ocean: Journey from the Ocean’s Surface to Its Deepest Depths
$29.95 Add to cartBeginning on the surface, start your ocean descent alongside coral, fish, sea horses and polar bears.
Watch as the scale maps the depth as you are transported deeper and deeper into the water, swimmin
- Series: Orca Up and Down
- Author: Accinelli, Gianumberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: March 17 2026
- ISBN10: 1459843312
- Language: English
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Faster Than a Jet, Bigger Than a Whale: An Illustrated Guide to Measuring Our World
$22.95 Add to cartA lavishly-illustrated guide to real-life wonders large and small! Dive into the biggest, the fastest and the strongest, from nature to technology to the miracles of the human body.
A gorilla is strong
- Author: Minoglio, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 3039641018
- Language: English
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Up in the Blue Sky: Journey from the Earth’s Surface to Outer Space
$29.95 Add to cartDiscover a world that can’t be touched.
Beginning on Earth’s surface, start your ascent into the blue and fly alongside butterflies, birds, drones, aircraft and more. Watch as the scale maps the altit
- Series: Orca Up and Down
- Author: Accinelli, Gianumberto
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1459843282
- Language: English
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I’m Longer Than You!: An Epic Contest of Measurement
$19.99 Add to cartA funny, smart and delightfully original way to teach kids about units of measure.
When Supersaurus claims to be the longest animal, Blue Whale begs to differ. The two animals debate who is longer unti
- Author: Fisher, Carolyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: September 02 2025
- ISBN10: 1525312944
- Language: English
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Measuring Up: How Oliver Smoot Became a Standard Unit of Measurement
$18.99 Add to cartCould you be the next smoot? One MIT student’s diminutive height becomes his mathematical superpower–and claim to fame–in a true story that’s entertaining and inspiring in equal measure.
When the f- Author: Lacika, Jenny
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 153623012X
- Language: English
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Standards
$18.95 Add to cartAn engaging introduction to standards, the invisible infrastructure that shapes the built and digital environments of the modern world.
Standards are the DNA of the built environment, encoded in nearl
- Series: MIT Press Essential Knowledge
- Author: Pomerantz, Jeffrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0262549492
- Language: English
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How Did Romans Count to 100?: Introducing Roman Numerals
$6.99 Read moreHave you ever wondered how people counted to 100 before modern numbers were invented?
In the How Do series, readers are invited to guess and then explore the science behind the right answers. A basic
- Series: How Do?
- Author: Hayes, Lucy D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1486725589
- Language: English
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The Universe in You: A Microscopic Journey
$8.99 Add to cartJason Chin, winner of the Caldecott Medal for Watercress, dives into the microscopic building blocks of life in this companion to the award-winning Your Place in the Universe.
In Your Place in the Uni- Author: Chin, Jason
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0823459977
- Language: English
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How Do You Measure a Slice of Pizza?: A Book about Geometry
$6.99 Read moreHave you ever wondered how to measure your pizza, or how much ice cream is in your ice-cream cone?
In the How Do series, readers are invited to guess and then explore the science behind the right answe
- Series: How Do?
- Author: Hayes, Madeline J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1486725600
- Language: English
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Is a Blue Whale the Biggest Thing There Is?
$9.99 Read moreThe blue whale is the biggest creature on Earth. But a hollow Mount Everest could hold billions of whales! And though Mount Everest is enormous, it is pretty small compared to the Earth. This book is … [more below]
- Series: Wells of Knowledge Science
- Author: Wells, Robert E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0807536563
- Language: English
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Show and Tell! Great Graphs and Smart Charts: An Introduction to Infographics
$7.99 Read moreA visual-learning expert races up the charts and graphs math success with kid-friendly content sure to help with homework.
Want to find the most popular meal in the cafeteria? Compare town sports enro- Author: Murphy, Stuart J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1623541751
- Language: English
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Perimeter, Area, and Volume: A Monster Book of Dimensions
$8.99 Add to cartGrab your jumbo popcorn–you’re invited to the premiere of a 3-D movie, all about those three dimensions
Trusted math picture book duo David A. Adler and Ed Miller tackle the differences between two-- Author: Adler, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0823427633
- Language: English
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How Tall, How Short, How Faraway?
$8.99 Read moreIf you think a yard is a place to play ball, feet are only good for wearing shoes, and a palm is just a tree that grows in Miami, think again They are all actually units of measure–different ways of… [more below]
- Author: Adler, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0823416321
- Language: English
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Graphs!
$18.99 Add to cartMath booster author David A. Adler and artist Ed Miller make pie charts easy-as-pie charts with this fun and vibrantly illustrated guide to data collection.
For students, STEM topics don’t always feel- Author: Adler, David A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0823448630
- Language: English
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Things That Float and Things That Don’t
$8.99 Read moreIt can be surprising which objects float and which don’t. An apple floats, but a ball of aluminum foil does not. If that same ball of foil is shaped into a boat, it floats Why? And how is it possible… [more below]
- Author: Adler, David A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 31 2014
- ISBN10: 0823431762
- Language: English
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The Measure of All Things
$26.99 Add to cartIn June 1792, amidst the chaos of the French Revolution, two intrepid astronomers set out in opposite directions on an extraordinary journey. Starting in Paris, Jean-Baptiste-Joseph Delambre would mak… [more below]
- Author: Alder, Ken
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0743216768
- Language: English
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The Seven Measures of the World
$18.00 Add to cartThe fascinating stories behind the essential seven units of measurement that allow us to understand the physical world
“Entertaining popular science and a literate tale of why things are as they are.”- Author: Martin, Piero
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0300280114
- Language: English
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The Planets Are Very, Very, Very Far Away: A Journey Through the Amazing Scale of the Solar System
$16.95 Read moreQuick: Picture the solar system. Do you see nine planets on tidy rings around the Sun? Then you have been lied to!
It’s not without reason: We have to draw the solar system that way to fit it on a plac
- Author: Vago, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 54
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 161519777X
- Language: English
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Show and Tell! Great Graphs and Smart Charts: An Introduction to Infographics
$17.99 Read moreA visual-learning expert races up the charts and graphs math success with kid-friendly content sure to help with homework.
Want to find the most popular meal in the cafeteria? Compare town sports enro- Author: Murphy, Stuart J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1580898238
- Language: English
