By the Numbers: 110.01 Cool Infographics Packed with Stats and Figures

by National Geographic Kids

Boost your math-brain power! Discover the amazing world of numbers and the real-world wonders they represent through creative, totally "getable" infographics. Colorful illustrated graphs, word clouds, pie charts, maps, photography, comparitive images, and more illuminate the math behind statistics, trends, measurements, and more that we encounter every day. Infographics cover subjects kids care about and can apply to daily living, such as money, food, green living, technology, how things work, and much more. Awesome Q&As with "numbers" people such as computer programmers, sports statisticians, and more show how math is a cool and useful tool.

Genres: Mathematics

256 pages, Paperback

First published October 13, 2015

About the author

With more than 600 titles—including the popular Weird But True franchise and the New York Times Best Selling National Geographic Kids Almanac—National Geographic Kids Books is the recognized leader in nonfiction for kids. Published in 28 languages, NGK Books reaches approximately 85 million kids every year.

Offering K-12 educators resources that align to and support the Common Core State Standards, National Geographic has a long history of providing high-quality informational texts suitable for primary, upper elementary, and middle school English language arts, social studies, and science classrooms.

Reviews

[Annette]

BY THE NUMBERS: 110.01 COOL INFOGRAPHICS from National Geographic Kids is packed with amazing statistics, facts, and figures.

The book begins with an introduction to infographics and a table of contents providing quick access to specific types of visuals such as word clouds, heat maps, and timelines. Each two-page spread contains an attractive infographic containing facts, graphs, charts, word clouds, maps, photographs, timelines, diagrams, or other types of engaging images. Featuring measurements, trends, statistics, and other kinds of data, this book will bring numbers alive to middle grade readers.

Covering a wide range of subjects, each reader will find topics of interest to explore. Woven throughout the book are interviews with people who work with numbers ever day as part of their jobs.

Librarians will find this book to be a great way to connect infographics with math and information literacy. Create a display containing this book along with others featuring infographics. Provide youth with tools for creating their own infographic projects.

Published by National Geographic Kids on October 13, 2015.

[Barbara]

Colorful photographs and various infographics highlight interesting facts about various subjects, including home much ice cream the average person consumes in a year, the world record for spitting a watermelon seed, and the largest pumpkin ever grown. Math never seemed as fun as it is on these pages that are brimming with nifty information that can be shared with others just for the delight of seeing someone's jaws drop in surprise. As a bibliophile, I really liked the double-page spread showing how many words someone in the sixth grade will read in a year if he/she reads for an hour each day (3,285,000) or even five minutes (273,750) a day. All those letters and words do mount up, after all. I can't imagine anyone who wouldn't be pulled in by this book and its fascinating snippets. All of this made me want to learn even more about some of the topics.