21st Century Skills Library: Daring Missions in Math

In this book, you will team up with groups of divers for all kinds of deep ocean adventures. You will learn they have many different jobs and that they need to know real-world math. Discover the concepts of area and perimeter, and learn how to measure the distance and size of the ocean discoveries in this book.

Your math mission in this book is to track a pride of lions across the Serengeti. Let's load up the Jeep and use the x and y coordinates on the map to find where another team last spotted the lions. The Serengeti is a beautiful and dangerous place. To determine the necessary supplies and fully appreciate the landscape and various animals that inhabit it, let's learn how to write and interpret numerical expressions and analyze patterns.

Travel with the experts to locate and extract venom from various venomous animals. We use the venoms for antivenom treatment of bites, pain relief, and even for diseases such as cancer. In this book, we will use multiplication and division to determine the correct amounts for extraction.

Help the Rainforest Rangers locate and count plant and animal species to determine if they are endangered or close to extinction. To do this you will need to know how to add and subtract within a 1000. One thousand is a big number! Let's learn how to round to the nearest 10 or 100.

Ride with the Storm Chasers to track groups of storms and use prediction tools to alert residents before the storm hits. Elapsed time is the perfect tools to be able to make predictions. Use graphing coordinates to show where storms are likely to touch down.