Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Absolutely Everything

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Quadrilaterals are polygonal shapes with four sides and four angles. Some common types of quadrilaterals include: Shapes are everywhere… even throughout the city. From rectangles that make up the skyscrapers to kites that are in the shape of diamonds, everything has a shape.

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Review: This is a very colorful picture book. It has pictures of shapes that are all around us, inside and outside. The book has concrete shapes and also shapes that are harder to see. This book could be used for beginners and children who are a bit more advance since it has a variety of pictures. Circle: A non-polygon shape with a curved line forming a closed loop, with every point in the loop equidistant from its center.I loved Jordan Ellenberg's earlier book, How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking, and it was a hard act to follow. But not for Ellenberg, as this book is also great. While the title, "Shape" implies that this book is about geometry--and it is--it is also about so much more. This book shows how mathematics is applicable to just about everything under the sun. And Ellenberg manages to make it all so fascinating! The sheer depth at which he covers an incredibly diverse range of topics is staggering. This is the type of book that I love! Ellenberg is a professor of mathematics, so he certainly knows what he is talking about! Sphere:A perfectly round solid figure, where all points on the surface are equidistant from the center.

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Unreasonably entertaining . . . reveals how geometric thinking can allow for everything from fairer American elections to better pandemic planning.” — The New York Times Polyhedra are 3D shapes with flat faces, straight edges, and vertices. Some examples of polyhedra include: The book is full of quotes and anecdotes of great mathematicians. The hero of the book to me is Henri Poincaré. This quote is taken from him: "If a transcendent being knew the true nature of things... he could not find words to express it. Not only can we not divine the response, but if it were given to us, we could not understand nothing of it." Jordan Ellenberg] is up to the engaging standard of his prior book . . . almost anyone is likely to enjoy Ellenberg’s prose, and mind.” — Harvard Magazine Tom Lehrer’s funny yet educational songs have engaged and enthused children (and adults) for over sixty years. His song, ‘The Elements’ can still be heard on TV shows today!In addition to triangles and quadrilaterals, several other polygonal shapes exist with varying numbers of sides:

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Cultural Considerations: This book shows a variety of pictures that display multicultural contexts/people This book has many excellent pieces but they are poorly linked together and surrounded by bloat. In my opinion, it could be polished into another masterpiece (like his previous book "How Not to be Wrong") if the theme was more concrete and topics were more carefully strung together. If you’re like most people, geometry is a sterile and dimly remembered exercise you gladly left behind in the dust of ninth grade, along with your braces and active romantic interest in pop singers. If you recall any of it, it’s plodding through a series of miniscule steps only to prove some fact about triangles that was obvious to you in the first place. That’s not geometry. Okay, it isgeometry, but only a tiny part, which has as much to do with geometry in all its flush modern richness as conjugating a verb has to do with a great novel. Example: The roof of the house has a triangular shape, with two sides sloping down towards the eaves. Shapes, Shapes, Shapes dates from 1986, but it's still a great concept book that introduces children both to shapes and photography. Some lovely compositions of urban and daily life bring shapes to life for very young children. The book includes no text other than an introduction to the shapes they can look for in the pictures, and she includes a good range of shapes, from arcs to trapezoids with the usual suspects in between.A circle is a closed shape with a constant distance (radius) from its center to any point on its circumference. Circles have unique properties: Introduce your students to art through shapes! Featured artists includeGeorgia O’Keeffe, Henri Matisse, and M.C. Escher.