This picture book is about Pythagoras and his cousins trying to figure out how to play their instruments in tune. By doing this he figures out an important discovery about notes and figures it out through certain mathematical relationships. This is a good book for teachers to have in their classroom because it it a quick read, and shows how mathematics connects with music. ( )

Pythagoras and the ratios is an informational fiction novel that follows Pythagoras and his cousins. They are going to a music festival, but they have to figure out how to tune their instruments. He realizes that the beautiful sounds have a relationship with mathematics. This book is great because it teaches the kids about ratios and how math works together with a lot of things that you might not expect. ( )

In this book, Pythagoras is trying to help his cousins produce music and find out how via ratios. This is a great book for kids that are in 3rd to 5th grade. It makes ratios digestible and relates them to the real world. This would be a great book for a read-out-loud. ( )

As the ELL teacher of at least one boy who likes math, I thought this would be a great book. It was even better than I thought as it is also a music book about the first rock band...

Pythagoras is really into music and wants to play in an upcoming contest, but he neglects his work to help his cousins fix their instruments to be tuned together which had never been done before. On the way to the contest, he breaks his pipes, but his cousins who stood in order to height did a magnificent job and Pythagoras decided to name his rock band Ratios in honor of the 5 cousins whose names conveniently started with R A T I and O. You'll have to read it for yourself to figure out the rock band. ( )