Math Concept Reader MCR g5 city of the future

... variety of solid figures to prepare for the City of the Future competition. The nets help them identify the faces, edges, surfaces, and vertices of some of the solid figures. As they take the solid ... Ortabasi Math Concept Reader City of the FUTURE ca56os_lay_070108ap_ll.indd 3 1/9/07 1:47:08 AMDIGITAL FINAL PROOFMrs. Ng’s students are looking forward to the annual City of the Future competition. ... models of solid figures. Mrs. Ng tells the students that their next task is to start constructing the City of the Future using all of the forms they have created. The students talk and laugh as they...

... where the buildings are located, the data table of the heights of all the buildings and the population data for each city. Finally, they add a list of references where the data were found. The ... features of Earth’s surface height the length of a perpendicular from the base to the top of a plane figure or solid figure hundreds place the position of the third digit from the left of the decimal ... in these two U.S. cities. Next, they decide to find out the population of the cities in China with the world’s tallest buildings. They add the population of Shanghai to the population of Guangzhou...

... read their podcast. They start their podcast with an introduction. Then they describe their visit to the wind farm. They explain how much energy the three wind turbines make. Finally, the ... describe the distances in the podcast if they used a smaller scale. He uses the scale of 1,000,000 km equals 1 m. Kaja and Henry divide the distance from the sun to Earth by 1,000,000. Then they ... from the ground. In the 1930s, windmills generated electricity. The wind turbines built today operate on the same principle as windmills. Wind turns the giant blades of the turbine. The...

... at the Lake Math Concept Reader by Amy AyersIllustrations by Lorin Walter I am at the lake. It is a warm, sunny day. I see many animals at the lake. They are in and around the ... 414-332-3567.HARCOURT and the Harcourt Logo are trademarks of Harcourt, Inc., registered in the United States of America and/or other jurisdictions.Printed in the United States of AmericaISBN 13: ... about birds at a lake. cak6xs_lay_070103ad_sb.indd 13 1/8/07 11:25:54 PM Numbers at the Lake Math Concept Reader Copyright © Gareth Stevens, Inc. All rights reserved.Developed for Harcourt,...

... complete, the skatepark committee asks the city council for approval of their plans. The city council votes to approve the park and must approve the location of the park as well. Then the fun ... get the city council to approve its plans. If there is no proof the community wants a skatepark, there is no reason for the city council to approve it. The skatepark committee does a lot of ... area of the section in which it will be placed. The area for the halfpipe is 1,500 square feet. The area of the intermediate and advanced section is 5,625 square feet. The dimensions of the...

... more. The classmates discuss why some parts of Earth have different weather during the seasons of the year. They learned that the seasons are due to the tilt of the Earth as it moves around the ... set up the pictograph Keisha draws three rows to represent the types of weather that they can expect during summer camp. Each of the three rows is made up of the number of days of either sunny, ... FINAL PROOF The girls give their presentation to the entire class. When they finish, other students have many questions about their data. For example, they ask Keisha and Olivia whether they have...

... represents the number of people that like the Hollywood theme best. Ben and Ari figure out what fraction of the circle represents this number of people.They tell their classmates that of the circle ... looks great! They bring the graph to TJ and together they analyze the data displayed in the circle graph. It is clear to everyone what the theme of the fundraising fair will be—Around the World!ca52xs_lay_070106af_kb.indd ... FINAL PROOF&(Around the World is the fundraising fair theme, but the fair will include each of the other themes, too.TJ studies the graph again and smiles. He has an idea. TJ says, The Around...

... Fivejudgesawardpointsfor the maneuvers.Theygivepointsfor the height of the snowboarder’sjumps.Inaddition, the judgesscore the overalltechnicalquality of the performance.Thisportion of the scoreincludes the quality of the landings.Snowboardersaresupposedtohaveclean,smoothlandings.They’renotsupposedtofall,orusetheirhandstokeepthemfromfalling.ca54os_lay_070107xad_cp.indd ... Mr.Dunbarstandsbefore the classasheintroduces the rstscienceunit.Hesaysthat the classwillstudyNewton’sLaws of Motion.Heasksifany of the studentshaveeverheard of theselaws of physics.Whennobodyanswers,heasks the classwhetherany of themhavesnowboardedbefore.Onlyafew of the studentsraisetheirhands.Then,heaskshowmany of themhavewatched the WinterOlympicssnowboardingcompetitions. ... The classconcludesthat the scoringrulescanmakeabigdifferenceonwhereeachsnowboardernishesin the nalrankings.Theyalsoagreethatforsnowboarding,keepingjustonescoreisagoodidea.Otherwise, the athletesmightnottryasmanyriskytricks,anditmightnotbeasexcitingtowatch. As the schoolbellrings,Mr.Dunbarpassesout the datafrom the women’snaleventandtells the classthat the computations of the results of the women’snaleventwillbetheirhomeworkassignment....

... FINAL PROOF&%Chapter 3:A Trip to the Sand Dunes The day of the trip arrives at last and the students load the bus with camping gear, food, and other supplies. Finally, the group of 32 ... thousands of years, the winds blew across the valley and carried sand with them, forming the dunes. Since the winds blew mostly in the same direction, the sand built up and formed the dunes. The ... another year. What is the difference in numbers of visitors at the park between the two years? 3. In 1997, the number of visitors to the Great Sand Dunes was 232,663. In that same year, the...

... and Grandfather have kept up their ends of the deal.They play foosball on the new table as often as they can. The three of them agree that their family and friends will have a lot of fun playing ... their grandfather screw the backs of the table together. As soon as one side board is attached to the back of the table, Grandfather slides the tabletop into the grooves along the sides and ... over the work they finished. They have gotten farther than they expected thanks to the careful planning they did with Grandfather ahead of time. While they were working on the rods, Grandfather...