Re: Pinhole Digest #1326 - 09/30/03

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From: Rebecca J. Sherman (beccasherman@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Oct 02 2003 - 23:23:40 PDT 

From: "Rebecca J. Sherman" <beccasherman@hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Pinhole Digest #1326 - 09/30/03
Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2003 06:23:40 +0000
Message-ID: <BAY2-F164NtWZmaFxey00002d54@hotmail.com>

Hi- Looking for some insight on two books for use with 8th graders:
Einstein's Dreams and Flatland (or Flatter Land if I can get copies of it)

Einstein's Dreams: I'd love to use this book as opening readings with a
rowdy but curious after-lunch class. Looking for an 8thgrade level
explanation/application of Einstein's Theory of Relativity in order to give
them a little to chew on. :)

Flatter Land is a response to the book Flatland (perspective of life in a
two-dimensional world). I'd like to use this book for enrichment and maybe
geometry review in a geometry-sparse algebra course for 8th graders. Anyone
have experience or thoughts on using it with this level of students?

thanks!
becca

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious."

                            -- Albert Einstein

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