Millions to Measure

Millions to Measure tells the story of measurement through the playful guidance of Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician, taking readers across history to learn who created measurement systems, what they are used for, and why standard units are important. The book highlights when and where measurement ideas developed, from ancient civilizations to the modern metric system, using colorful illustrations and storytelling. The intended audience is upper elementary students and middle school readers. The book includes academic vocabulary such as length, volume, mass, metric system, and standard units. It can be connected to instruction by serving as an engaging introduction to lessons on measuring and converting units. This book would be show more a great addition to the classroom library because it makes abstract measurement ideas understandable and relatable for young learners. show less

This book shows children how to measure by using length volume and width. The story uses a magician to go back in time to show kids about different measurements of all kinds of things! I love this book to help kids understand math in a fun and imaginative way. Math can be hard for a lot of students, so this book makes learning math more fun.

"Millions to Measure" is a measurement book that uses the character of Marvelosissimo the Mathematical Magician to explain the history of measurement to a group of children. The author targets children by measuring objects such as unicorns, whiskers of a cat, and hogs. He also explains the metric system and what happens when people confuse the metric and customary measurement systems. The book uses colorful illustrations and the information is comprehensive and accurate. Children would probably like the characters and references the authors uses. Although I would probably not use this book in one of my lessons, I would recommend it to one of my students for further reading or assign it as part of a bonus project.

A book that takes you back in time to find out how measurements came about. This brightly illustarted book is in comic form which makes it interesting to read. At the end of the book, there is more information about the metric system and a table. This can be a fun book to use when introducing children to the different methods of measurements and the metric system.

Millions to Measure is a measuriffic book that I am measuring to tell you about. I am reviewing it Measuria, a place where measuring is measical. Get it, magical measical?

Oh, whatever!

Let's get down to measuring how great this measuring book is!

Whenever I give an excellent review on one of the parts of this book, give it 5 points. Whenever I give it a good review, give it 3 points. When I give it an OK review, give it 1 point.

This book has magnificent hand-drawn and colored pencil drawings. One of the great illustrations is of Hercules The Huggable Hippo. It's a really funny picture to explain weight! Give this 5 points. I hope you're keeping track (I'm not!)

Next part of this book is its excellent explanations. It helps you measure by show more showing the different ways people measured back in time and compared that to now. It even has a sidebar showing fluid ounces on one of the pages, and it helped me with my homework since I'm learning about capacity.

I recommend this book to people who are learning about measuring,or who want to. show less

A good introduction to measurements for kids. Not too complicated and not too simple. The pictures by Kellogg, as usual, are brilliant.

This story goes back in time, teaching children how people measured items back in the days, and then compare it to how we people measure things today. This story goes in dept, teaching children how to look at and use a ruler to looking a volume and measuring by the weight of something. Along with other books that I have read, this story could be really fun to use in a lesson, and it could even be used to spark a hands-on activity for students to explore and learn how to measure different items of different forms.