• Welcome
    • The digitizing project
    • What was Childcraft?
      • Organization of Childcraft
      • Getting to know Childcraft
      • Introducing Childcraft in the home
    • Reading to your Child
  • The Books
    • 1 – Once Upon a Time
      • Nursery Rhymes
      • Stories & Poems
      • Folk & Fairy Tales
      • Favorite Fables
      • Things to Know
    • 2 – Time to Read
    • 3 – Stories and Poems
      • Stories
      • Poems
    • 4 – World and Space
      • Our Home, the Earth
      • Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers
      • Air, Wind, Clouds, and Weather
      • Mountains, Valleys, and Plains
      • Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
      • Rocks, Stones, and Petrified Bones
    • 5 – About Animals
      • The Animal Kingdom
      • It’s a Mammal
      • It’s a Bird
      • It’s a Fish
      • It’s a Reptile
      • It’s an Amphibian
      • Many-Legged Creatures
      • Animal Ways
      • The Animals’ World
      • The World of the Sea
      • Staying Alive
      • Living Together
      • Animals of Long Ago
      • Vanishing Animals
      • Domestic Animals
      • People and Animals
    • 6 – The Green Kingdom
      • Seasons of Life
      • Plant Ways
      • Nature’s Neighbors
      • Strange and Surprising Plants
      • How Does Your Garden Grow?
      • Famous Gardens
      • Meet the Trees
      • Plants of Long Ago
      • People and Plants
      • Saving the Plants
      • True Tales and Tall Tales
      • Look for a Lovely Thing
    • 7 – Story of the Sea
      • Animals of the sea
      • Water world
      • Fish
      • Birds
      • Coelenterates
      • Crustaceans
      • Echinoderms
      • Mammals
      • Reptiles
      • Mollusks
      • Sponges, sea squirts, and worms
      • Strange stories of the sea
      • Might and majesty of the sea
      • People and the sea
      • People who work on the sea
    • 8 – About Us
      • Brothers and Sisters, Moms and Dads
      • Fingers and Forks
      • How Do You Know?
      • Let’s Go to My House
      • Living in Two Worlds
    • 9 – Holidays and Birthdays
      • Holiday Time
      • January
      • February
      • March
      • April
      • May
      • June
      • July
      • August
      • September
      • October
      • November
      • December
    • 10 – Places to Know
      • Oh! And ah! Places
      • Queer, Quaint, And Curious Places
      • Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World
      • Treasure Places
      • What’s In A Name?
      • All That’s Left
      • As Good As Old
      • Just For Fun
      • Where Animals Are Famous
      • Where Battles Were Fought
      • Where Land And Water Meet
      • Where Nature Gets In The Way
      • Where People Worship
      • Where They Run A Country
    • 11 – Make and Do
      • Nature Crafts
      • Paint and Print
      • Papier-Mache
      • Puppets and Plays
      • Sew and Stitch
      • Gifts to Give
      • Hook, Weave, Knot, and Braid
      • Let’s Dress Up
      • Let’s Play Games
      • Let’s Play with Clay
    • 12 – How Things Work
      • What’s the Matter?
      • Currents and Sparks
      • Full of Energy
      • Hear All About It
      • Hot and Cold
      • Let’s Get Moving
      • Machines Make It Easy
      • More Things That Work
      • Seeing the Light
    • 13 – Mathemagic
      • How long, how fast, how hot, how heavy?
      • People who work with numbers and shapes
      • Points, lines, shapes, and designs
      • Puzzle fun!
      • What are your chances?
      • What can you do with numbers?
    • 14 – About Me
      • Becoming Me
      • I Speak, I Listen
      • I Wonder, I Think
      • Inside and Outside of Me
      • The Many Me’s
      • There’s Nobody Exactly Like Me
      • Watch Me Grow
      • What Does Me Mean to Me?
      • What I Can Do
    • 15 – Guide to Childcraft
      • The New Baby: Birth to 18 months
      • The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years
      • The Preschooler: 3 to 5 years
      • The School-Age Child: 5 to 8 years
      • The Preteen: 8 to 13 years
      • Health and safety
      • For Special Consideration
      • Medical Guide
  • Random Post
  • Contact
  • Welcome
    • The digitizing project
    • What was Childcraft?
      • Organization of Childcraft
      • Getting to know Childcraft
      • Introducing Childcraft in the home
    • Reading to your Child
  • The Books
    • 1 – Once Upon a Time
      • Nursery Rhymes
      • Stories & Poems
      • Folk & Fairy Tales
      • Favorite Fables
      • Things to Know
    • 2 – Time to Read
    • 3 – Stories and Poems
      • Stories
      • Poems
    • 4 – World and Space
      • Our Home, the Earth
      • Oceans, Lakes, and Rivers
      • Air, Wind, Clouds, and Weather
      • Mountains, Valleys, and Plains
      • Planets, Stars, and Galaxies
      • Rocks, Stones, and Petrified Bones
    • 5 – About Animals
      • The Animal Kingdom
      • It’s a Mammal
      • It’s a Bird
      • It’s a Fish
      • It’s a Reptile
      • It’s an Amphibian
      • Many-Legged Creatures
      • Animal Ways
      • The Animals’ World
      • The World of the Sea
      • Staying Alive
      • Living Together
      • Animals of Long Ago
      • Vanishing Animals
      • Domestic Animals
      • People and Animals
    • 6 – The Green Kingdom
      • Seasons of Life
      • Plant Ways
      • Nature’s Neighbors
      • Strange and Surprising Plants
      • How Does Your Garden Grow?
      • Famous Gardens
      • Meet the Trees
      • Plants of Long Ago
      • People and Plants
      • Saving the Plants
      • True Tales and Tall Tales
      • Look for a Lovely Thing
    • 7 – Story of the Sea
      • Animals of the sea
      • Water world
      • Fish
      • Birds
      • Coelenterates
      • Crustaceans
      • Echinoderms
      • Mammals
      • Reptiles
      • Mollusks
      • Sponges, sea squirts, and worms
      • Strange stories of the sea
      • Might and majesty of the sea
      • People and the sea
      • People who work on the sea
    • 8 – About Us
      • Brothers and Sisters, Moms and Dads
      • Fingers and Forks
      • How Do You Know?
      • Let’s Go to My House
      • Living in Two Worlds
    • 9 – Holidays and Birthdays
      • Holiday Time
      • January
      • February
      • March
      • April
      • May
      • June
      • July
      • August
      • September
      • October
      • November
      • December
    • 10 – Places to Know
      • Oh! And ah! Places
      • Queer, Quaint, And Curious Places
      • Seven Wonders Of The Ancient World
      • Treasure Places
      • What’s In A Name?
      • All That’s Left
      • As Good As Old
      • Just For Fun
      • Where Animals Are Famous
      • Where Battles Were Fought
      • Where Land And Water Meet
      • Where Nature Gets In The Way
      • Where People Worship
      • Where They Run A Country
    • 11 – Make and Do
      • Nature Crafts
      • Paint and Print
      • Papier-Mache
      • Puppets and Plays
      • Sew and Stitch
      • Gifts to Give
      • Hook, Weave, Knot, and Braid
      • Let’s Dress Up
      • Let’s Play Games
      • Let’s Play with Clay
    • 12 – How Things Work
      • What’s the Matter?
      • Currents and Sparks
      • Full of Energy
      • Hear All About It
      • Hot and Cold
      • Let’s Get Moving
      • Machines Make It Easy
      • More Things That Work
      • Seeing the Light
    • 13 – Mathemagic
      • How long, how fast, how hot, how heavy?
      • People who work with numbers and shapes
      • Points, lines, shapes, and designs
      • Puzzle fun!
      • What are your chances?
      • What can you do with numbers?
    • 14 – About Me
      • Becoming Me
      • I Speak, I Listen
      • I Wonder, I Think
      • Inside and Outside of Me
      • The Many Me’s
      • There’s Nobody Exactly Like Me
      • Watch Me Grow
      • What Does Me Mean to Me?
      • What I Can Do
    • 15 – Guide to Childcraft
      • The New Baby: Birth to 18 months
      • The Toddler: 18 months to 3 years
      • The Preschooler: 3 to 5 years
      • The School-Age Child: 5 to 8 years
      • The Preteen: 8 to 13 years
      • Health and safety
      • For Special Consideration
      • Medical Guide
  • Random Post
  • Contact
Mathemagic, Points, lines, shapes, and designs

Meet the angle family

People have names. And we give names to different kinds of animals. So why shouldn't angles have names? They do! Angles are named after the kind of corner they make. An angle that forms a square...

Manuel
March 4, 2024March 4, 2024
Mathemagic, Points, lines, shapes, and designs

Dot-picture shapes.

You've probably made dot pictures lots of times. They're pictures you make by drawing lines from one dot to another. Well, here are some special dot pictures you can make for yourself. Get a paper...

Manuel
March 4, 2024March 4, 2024
Mathemagic, Points, lines, shapes, and designs

Points and lines

What is this • ? You probably said, "It's a dot." Or maybe you said, "It's a period." Well, it could be a dot or a period. But to mathematicians, it's a picture of a point. You probably think of a...

Manuel
March 4, 2024March 4, 2024
Mathemagic, Points, lines, shapes, and designs

Shapes everywhere

Just as you live in a world of numbers, you also live in a world of shapes. Your house or apartment is full of shapes. Every corner forms a shape called an angle. Every door and doorway is a shape...

Manuel
March 3, 2024March 3, 2024
Mathemagic, Points, lines, shapes, and designs

Points, lines, shapes, and designs

Start with two points. Connect them with a line. Then make an angle (You're doing fine). Close the angle And a triangle's there. Put two triangles together ---You've got a square! And squares and...

Manuel
March 3, 2024March 4, 2024
How long, how fast, how hot, how heavy?, Mathemagic

Measuring mountains

> Have you ever wondered how people measure the height of a mountain? > They don't do it by climbing the mountain and measuring with a ruler > as they go! The height of a mountain is found by...

Manuel
March 3, 2024March 3, 2024
How long, how fast, how hot, how heavy?, Mathemagic

Measuring temperature

For thousands of years, people judged the temperature by how they felt. To check the heat of an oven, cooks put a hand into the oven. If the weather felt cold, people put on more clothes. Long, long...

Manuel
March 3, 2024March 3, 2024
How long, how fast, how hot, how heavy?, Mathemagic

Measuring speed

The mighty Superman can move faster than a speeding bullet---but how fast is that? A tiny snail creeps along at what is called a "snail's pace"---but how slow is that? There's an easy way to measure...

Manuel
March 3, 2024March 3, 2024
How long, how fast, how hot, how heavy?, Mathemagic

Minutes, seconds, and nanoseconds

> Atop a tower in the town square hung a big bell. At each side of the > bell was a large iron statue of a man. Each statue held a hammer in > its hands. > > Suddenly, one of the statues seemed to...

Manuel
March 3, 2024March 3, 2024
How long, how fast, how hot, how heavy?, Mathemagic

Water clocks and sand clocks

Measuring time by the sun or the stars is all very well, but people soon needed a better way. And this need led to the invention of the water clock. The first water clock was just a large clay or...

Manuel
March 3, 2024March 3, 2024
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