Murderous Maths: Guaranteed to Bend Your Brain
by Kjartan Poskitt Author
(From Amazon): Find out about how maths could help you rescue someone in deadly peril, how not to shoot yourself with a cannon, and meet famous mathematicians who were really hard. And watch out for One Finger Jimmy, Chainsaw Charlie and their gangster friends, who are living proof that maths can be murderous.
Additional Details
- Resource Type
- Book
- ISBN
- 9781407105888
- Print Status
- In Print
- Chapters
- 16
- Suggested Grades
- 4th - 8th
- Publisher
- Scholastic
- Copyright
- 2008
Chapters
- 1 Murderous maths - are you kidding? p.7-11
- 2 The basics p.12-18
- 3 Professor Fiendish's fatal fungus p.19-26
- 4 The best invention ever! p.27-31
- 5 How our "ten" system works p.32-36
- 6 Rubbish things about calculators p.37-44
- 7 The long and short of it p.45-51
- 8 Time? p.52-59
- 9 Clocks p.60-71
- 10 The quest for the right angle p.72-80
- 11 The hard boys of maths! p.81-102
- 12 The magic square p.103-106
- 13 Short-cuts p.107-115
- 14 A really good magic trick p.116-124
- 15 How to handle BIG numbers p.125-135
- 16 Symmetry and the mindmashing maze! p.136-144
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