| Description |
128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps ; 29 cm |
| Audience |
10-14. |
| Note |
10-14. |
| Audience |
5-9. |
| Note |
5-9. |
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Includes index. |
| Summary |
Presents math activities and puzzles, stories of math geniuses, math facts and statistics, and more. |
| Contents |
Math brain. Meet your brain -- Math skills --Learning math -- Brain vs. machine -- Problems with numbers -- Women and math -- Seeing the solution -- Inventing numbers. Learning to count -- Number systems -- Big zero -- Pythagoras -- Thinking outside the box -- Number patterns -- Calculation tips -- Archimedes -- Math that measures -- How big? How far? -- The size of the problem -- Magic numbers. Seeing sequences -- Pascal's triangle -- Magic squares -- Missing numbers -- Karl Gauss -- Infinity -- Numbers with meaning -- Number tricks -- Puzzling primes -- Shapes and space. Triangles -- Shaping up -- Shape shifting -- Round and round -- The third dimension -- 3-D shape puzzles -- 3-D fun -- Leonhard Euler -- Amazing mazes -- Optical illusions -- Impossible shapes -- A world of math. Interesting times -- Mapping -- Isaac Newton -- Probability -- Displaying data -- Logic puzzles and paradoxes -- Breaking codes -- Codes and ciphers -- Alan Turning -- Algebra -- Brainteasers -- Secrets of the universe -- The big quiz. |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Juvenile literature.
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| Added Author |
Burnett, Seb, illustrator.
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| Note |
Cover title: How to be a math genius : your brilliant brain and how to train it |
| Added Title |
Math genius |
| ISBN |
9780756697969 |
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0756697964 |
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