A Fly on the Ceiling (Step-Into-Reading, Step 4)

Talk about an inspiring read for kids! Easy to use words with enough challenge, and the topic helps encourage the scientist in everyone.

I’ve always loved this book, great read

Good book

This was easy for my 6 year old to read while teaching about Descartes and his grids...through a story about what he did one day while he was sick in bed. She understood afterward what the grids were used for and how they worked. I didn't know anything about Descartes before having this read to me either...so it was informative for us both! We love these readers for combining reading practice with science, math and history facts in enjoyable tidbits.

An entertaining but appropriately simple explanation of how Rene Descartes developed coordinate graphing. It even gives a beautifully simple example of why this is important. Great first example of the history of math. If you are just looking for a funny little story book with amazing illustrations this will work just fine.

just what I needed, however, I do believe that it may be a little pricey.

I am an Education Major and this is a great book to teach the coordinate plane to students if you are trying to create a cross-curricular lesson.

This book really helped explain a real life (as funny as it was) situation for using a coordinate grid. It gave my 5th graders that common experience from which we could continue to develop our coordinate grid/ordered pairs conversations and activities.

この本は、デカルトの見つけた「カルテシアン座標/デカルト座標」を説明する本で、著者が最後に書いていますが、デカルトがカルテシアン座標を発見したのは真のことながら、描写されているデカルトの生活は創作なのだそうです。片付けが苦手だったとか、セーヌ川に落ちたとかは、話を面白くするための創作と聞くと、デカルトが少々気の毒になります。そこが少々気になりますが、座標の概念をわかりやすく伝えてくれる楽しい本です。イラストも味わいがあります。