Where in the World?

How far is it?

A map may be millions of times smaller than the real land it pictures. So how can you find out how far it is from one place to another? To find out, you use a “measuring stick” called a scale. Scale…

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Birds

Wings over the water

Far out over the southern sea, thousands of miles from the nearest land, a great, graceful bird soars in the sky. The bird is a wandering albatross buh traws). It has the longest wings of any bird…

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Mathemagic

Holmes and the e

In the story called Adventure of the Dancing Men, Sherlock Holmes, the famous detective, solves a mystery by figuring out a message that is in code. Holmes is aware that in English the letter e is…

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