Bedtime Math

So how do you say “tomato,” anyway? Tomatoes are tricky. When people first found them in America hundreds of years ago, everyone thought they were poisonous. But people figured out that you ...

Giraffes are the tallest animals in the world, standing 16 to 18 feet high. That’s more than twice as high as your bedroom ceiling! The fuzzy baby giraffe here is way bigger than you think, too. She was born already 6 feet tall! Also, we humans are 9, 12, or even 18 months old when we learn to walk – but in

Normally you don’t catch a tennis ball – you whack it with a racquet. And if you did try to catch a tennis ball, you’d use your hands, not a bucket. And even if you DID use a bucket, you wouldn’t hold it on top of your head. But

We don’t have live dinosaurs today we could put on a bathroom scale to weigh. But how much DID they weigh? Take the spinosaurus, which had huge 5-foot spines along its back. We know these dinos were about 50 feet long and stood over 10 feet tall – that’s higher than your bedroo...

We know we can teach an animal to dance. But can wild animals out there dance to a beat? One scientist watched thousands of videos of animals “dancing” to music. He found 33 of them were dancing for real – and 29 of those were birds! (the rest were elephants).