The Fly on the Ceiling: A Math Myth
The Fly on the Ceiling: A Math Myth
Glass, Julie
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Annotation: A story about how the very messy French philosopher, Rene Descartes, invented an ingenious way to keep track of his possessions.
Genre: [Historical fiction]
 
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Catalog Number: #4408803
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Random House
Copyright Date: 1998
Edition Date: 1998 Release Date: 05/19/98
Illustrator: Walz, Richard,
Pages: 48 pages
ISBN: 0-679-88607-9
ISBN 13: 978-0-679-88607-5
Dewey: E
LCCN: 2003012538
Dimensions: 24 cm.
Subject Heading:
Descartes, Rene,. 1596-1650. Juvenile fiction.
Descartes, Rene,. 1596-1650. Fiction.
Graphic methods. Fiction.
Orderliness. Fiction.
Language: English
Word Count: 984
Reading Level: 3.4
Interest Level: 2-5
Accelerated Reader: reading level: 3.4 / points: 0.5 / quiz: 2464 / grade: Lower Grades
Reading Counts!: reading level:2.8 / points:2.0 / quiz:Q16578
Lexile: 560L
Guided Reading Level: P
Fountas & Pinnell: P

Recognized as the father of analytic geometry, René Descartes was a French mathematician and philosopher. Kids will love this funny and very accessible tale - based on one of math's greatest myths - about the man who popularized the Cartesion system of coordinates.  

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