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.
Additional Details
- 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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