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Design a Skyscraper
Find out what it takes to build high in the sky. Follow each stage of the project and complete the math exercises to build one of the world's tallest buildings! We're counting on YOU to do the math! Featuring math problems from addition and decimals to line graphs and pie charts, these books have different challenges to be solved with a varying range of difficulty.
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32 pages, Hardcover
First published June 1, 2015
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September 23, 2024
Great intro book for math-loving kids that are aspiring engineers/builders/architects. My almost-10 year old loved it. It will serve as a great jumping off point for further study (it is 32 pages so it's not super in depth, more of an overview providing chances for math). We did one section a day which were 2 pages each, containing 4-5 questions, many of which had several parts, taking us on average 10-15 minutes/section.
It guides the reader through the main building steps, several of which I hadn't really considered before. It then relates these to real-life buildings and hypotheticals.
The sections include:
~Shapes of Skyscrapers (identifying 3D shapes & their faces & vertices & bird's eye views)
~The Size of Skyscrapers (reading and interpreting tables, compares heights between current skyscrapers)
~Record-Breaking Skyscrapers (working with graphs about the history & heights)
~Choosing the Site (coordinates, how geography shapes building costs)
~Securing the Site (measurements and perimeters & areas)
~Digging Foundations (negative numbers, calculating below the ground floor)
~Strong Materials (2D shapes, multiplication, and mass using steel girders)
~Skyscraper Uses (fractions and proportions, how different buildings can have different uses for various floors)
~Building Your Skyscraper (multiplication to calculate wiring, light bulbs, bricks, doors & water pipes)
~Surviving Earthquakes (working with decimals and the Richter Scale)
~Emergency Stairs (multiplication and division using rise height and tread depth)
~Going to the Top (multiplication and division with elevator speeds)
~Keeping It Clean (calculation for window washing)
It guides the reader through the main building steps, several of which I hadn't really considered before. It then relates these to real-life buildings and hypotheticals.
The sections include:
~Shapes of Skyscrapers (identifying 3D shapes & their faces & vertices & bird's eye views)
~The Size of Skyscrapers (reading and interpreting tables, compares heights between current skyscrapers)
~Record-Breaking Skyscrapers (working with graphs about the history & heights)
~Choosing the Site (coordinates, how geography shapes building costs)
~Securing the Site (measurements and perimeters & areas)
~Digging Foundations (negative numbers, calculating below the ground floor)
~Strong Materials (2D shapes, multiplication, and mass using steel girders)
~Skyscraper Uses (fractions and proportions, how different buildings can have different uses for various floors)
~Building Your Skyscraper (multiplication to calculate wiring, light bulbs, bricks, doors & water pipes)
~Surviving Earthquakes (working with decimals and the Richter Scale)
~Emergency Stairs (multiplication and division using rise height and tread depth)
~Going to the Top (multiplication and division with elevator speeds)
~Keeping It Clean (calculation for window washing)
April 18, 2017
The art, the writing, and the overall style of the book weren’t done my favorite way. It might have good information in it, but it just isn’t for me.
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