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One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With
Science! is one of Science, Naturally's most
popular books. This engaging volume covers plenty of different fields of
science, including chemistry,
biology, physics, earth science and more! At Soundbyte Science, you can
listen to some of these
stories. Be prepared to put on your thinking cap and use your science
knowledge to solve these mysteries!
One Minute Mysteries has received rave reviews from Books for
Kids, Midwest Book Review, and more. It was a
National Best Books 2008 Award Finalist, sponsored by
USABookNews.com, and is a NAPPA 2008 Honors Winner,
judged by nationally recognized industry experts, educators, reviewers
and advocates. The National Science
Teachers' Association has awarded it their highly regarded
"NSTA Recommends" designation.
Awards & Acclaim
In the News!
Eric and Natalie Yoder,
authors of One Minute
Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve With Science!, were
interviewed on NPR's Science Friday last week.
Host Ira Flatow played 'solve the mystery' with the audience,
reading three of the mysteries on the show and inviting listeners to
call in. The phones rang off the hook!
Listen to the show.
Dia Michels and her daughter, Kaely, give
another interview with ABC's Robyn Williams about science
literacy, One Minute Mysteries and Kaely's unique career
aspirations.
Listen to the show.
Sample One Minute Mysteries
A Fair Contest -- Click here to listen.
Students at a science fair decide which diorama of a natural ecosystem
deserves the top prize. Can you figure out which science fair
project is best?
Audio mysteries created by REALscience, an online media company focused on
bringing science content to consumers any way and anywhere.
More Audio Mysteries Coming Soon!
Want more mysteries? Download a
condensed version of the book.
If My Mom Were a Platypus
Listen as Dia Michels,
author of If My Mom
Were a Platypus, gives an
entertaining talk about lessons from the animal world. In "If Your
Mom Were a Platypus: What We Can Learn by Studying
Mammal Lactation," Dia extrapolates lessons of relevance to humans
from exploring the world of wild mammals. Dia's
observations are now available for all to hear on a podcast produced by
the Motherwear
catalog, providing clothing and supplies for breastfeeding women.
Listen.
Dia Michels talks to Australian
Broadcasting Company radio host Robyn Williams about why she wants to be
a platypus. Listen and find out about platypus parenting.Listen.
Platypus Activity Guide
Click here to download the Activity Guide
Use this learning tool by itself or in conjunction with the book. This
guide gives you engaging and easy to follow ideas
on how to use the text to bring the world of animals to life.
Additionally, our Hands-On Guide to Science Demonstrations
pulls the hands-on activities from the Guide and
gives you more detailed information, including where to get supplies,
how to set up the demonstrations, and pre- and
post-experiment discussion points.
Click to Download
You can also download our Mammal Biodiversity Table.
Click to Download
101 Things Everyone Should Know About
Science
Why do you see lightning before you hear thunder? What keeps the
planets orbiting around the sun? Why do we put salt on roads when they
are icy? What metal is a liquid at room temperature? And the burning
question: Why do so many scientists wear white lab coats?
101 Things Everyone Should Know About Science answers these
questions and many, many more (96 more, to be exact).101 Things
is entertaining and educational for aspiring scientists of any age, and
is also a useful tool in the classroom.
Preview the book by downloading the
condensed version
and the test booklet.
101 questions and answers about
everyday math!
Boost your child’s math knowledge!
Learn shortcuts and tricks that make
math fun!
Using a simple question-and-answer format, and
focusing on real-life situations, 101 Things Everyone
Should Know About Math is an easy and fun-to-use
tool designed to broaden your understanding of math.
Whether you’re 8 or 108, this book will help you as
you use math each day.
The second in the “101 Things
Everyone Should Know” series, this book helps readers
of all ages enjoy and understand basic mathematical
operations. Mathematical concepts are explained,
simplified, and applied to real life situations, so even
the most ‘math averse’ person will feel more confident
as they use math.
Written by author/educators Marc
Zev, Kevin Segal, and Nathan Levy, 101 Things Everyone
Should Know About Math is perfect for kids, parents,
grown-ups, students, teachers, and anyone interested
in the difference between an Olympic score of 9.0 and
an earthquake registering 9.0.
Explore a variety of math concepts using fun,
everyday topics like:
Food and Nutrition Music and Art Travel
Sports and Recreation Health Nature
Basic Math Facts
Get a sneak preview!
Sample Question: The square of 14 (142) is
196, the square of 16 (162) is 256.
What is the square of 15 (152)?
Solution: There are a few different ways to solve this problem
–
we are going to give you the fastest:
First, there is something you have to remember: When a
number that ends in the number 5 is squared, the result will
always end in 25. This is great to know, if for no other reason
that it helps you check your answers.
Because you know the answer must be between 196 and
256 (those numbers are given), and the number must end in
25, then, we can see that there is only number between 196
and 256 which has 25 as its last two digits: 225.
For more information about this book, click here.
One Minute Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You
Solve with Math!
Coming November 2009
By Eric Yoder and Natalie Yoder
The second book in our wildly successful
One Minute Mysteries series, One Minute
Mysteries: 65 Short Mysteries You Solve
With Math! keeps you entertained and
eager to learn more! These short mysteries,
each just one-minute long, have a fun and
interesting twist—you have to tap into your
mathematical wisdom to solve them! Solve
over 60 math brain twisters (solutions
included) that challenge your knowledge of
math in everyday life!
Read a sample mystery: “Cereal Numbers”
Ron and Lauren’s father had made a New Year’s resolution in
2007 to be healthier. Part of his program, along with exercising,
was eating only cereal for breakfast instead of things like bacon
and eggs.
It had taken him a while to find a kind of cereal he liked, but
finally on the first day of February he settled on one. It happened
to be Ron and Lauren’s favorite too.
He even had his own special box of it, which he labeled with
a marker: “Dad’s Box—Not for Kids.”
The box held 700 grams of
cereal, and by measuring out a cup a day, he’d made the cereal
last exactly one month. So he decided that he’d start a new box on
the first of each month.
One day in late March the family sat down to breakfast together.
Their father looked into his box and frowned.
“I don’t think I’ll have enough to make it through
the month,”
he said.
He looked at Ron and Lauren. “This reminds me of Goldilocks
and the Three Bears,” he said. “Someone’s been eating
my cereal."
“No we haven’t, Dad,” Ron and Lauren said together.
“Then what happened to my cereal?” he asked.
Solution:
“The first box lasted all of February, which has twenty-eight
days this year—every four years it has twenty-nine,” Lauren
said.
“But March has thirty-one days,” Ron added. “So to
make this
month’s 700-gram box last thirty-one days, you should have been
taking out a little less each day.”
Lauren did some quick division on a sheet of paper.
“To make
700 grams last twenty-eight days, the measuring cup must hold
twenty-five grams of this cereal,” Lauren said.
Ron also did some division. “You should have been taking
22.58 grams, to be exact. But don’t worry, we’ll give you
some
from our box.”
For more information about this book, click here
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