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11/21/13

What's Your Angle, Pythagoras?

AUTHOR/ILLUSTRATOR: Julie Ellis/Phyllis Hornung 
PUBLISHER: Charlesbridge Pub Inc
PUBLICATION DATE: 2004      GENRE: Concept Book READING LEVEL: 3rd-5th Grade
BRIEF OVERVIEW: Young Pythagoras is curious and notices that several people in his community are having problems with angles. So, Pythagoras comes up with a way to calculate the measure of the angles.
INTEGRATED ACTIVITY: I would use this book to introduce the Pythagorean Theorem. After the introduction lesson, the students would then be given a worksheet with examples from the book.
REVIEWER'S NAME & AFFILIATION:  Nicole Waller, Valdosta State University