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Murderous Maths: Easy Questions, Evil Answers

by Kjartan Poskitt Author

(From Amazon): Why do people think Friday 13th is unlucky? How can you make a liar tell the truth? How many people in the world share your birthday? Easy Questions, Evil Answers provides the answers to all these questions and more. It's the perfect laugh-out-loud, boredom busting read for everyone who's ever wondered just how many footballs you can fit in a swimming pool and how long it takes to count to a million.

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Resource Type
Book
ISBN
9781407114514
Print Status
In Print
Chapters
31
Pages
160
Suggested Grades
4th - 8th
Publisher
Scholastic
Edition
0
Copyright
2010

Chapters

  • 1 The suggestion box p.7-12
  • 2 Some useful stuff p.13
  • 3 Arithmetricks p.14-22
  • 4 The formula board p.23-24
  • 5 Pytho power p.25-30
  • 6 When does 9–11=10? p.31-36
  • 7 How far away is the horizon? p.37-41
  • 8 How fast does the moon move? p.42-45
  • 9 The Great Rhun and the box of one year's delight p.46-48
  • 10 Calendar chaos! p.49-57
  • 11 What is the very smallest measurement? p.58-63
  • 12 How can you make a liar tell the truth? p.64-68
  • 13 How far does a water current make you drift off course? p.69-74
  • 14 What is the biggest shape you can put a fence around? p.75-77
  • 15 How many snaps does it take to break up a chocolate bar? p.78-80
  • 16 How many different nets of a cube are there? p.81-83
  • 17 Did Dolly diddle the dodgy diamonds? p.84-85
  • 18 Why can't you get a giant people-eating spider? p.86-92
  • 19 What's that nasty thing in the basement? p.93-99
  • 20 How many people in the world share your birthday? p.100-108
  • 21 The shortest link p.109-112
  • 22 A lot of hot air p.113-116
  • 23 How do you make a perfect kite shape quickly? p.117-118
  • 24 What is the biggest number? p.119-130
  • 25 The curry burger problem p.131-132
  • 26 How high is a kite? p.133-136
  • 27 Can one giant sneeze blast the Earth out of orbit? p.137-141
  • 28 The mysterious handcuffs p.142-143
  • 29 Some unexpectedly evil football sums p.144-155
  • 30 How much of Archimedes' bathwater is in every glass of water you drink? p.156-157
  • 31 Goodbye! p.158-159

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