Get better at maths and numbers by realizing which math skills you already use in daily life, and learn new ones while having fun.
Did you realize how much maths you are already using when playing computer games, planning a journey, or baking a cake? This ebook shows how to expand the knowledge you've already got, how your brain works things out, and how you can get even better at all sorts of maths. Explore amazing algebra, puzzling primes, super sequences, and special shapes. Challenge yourself with quizzes to answer, puzzles to solve, codes to crack, and geometrical illusions to inspire you, and meet the big names and even bigger brains who made mathematical history, such as Pythagoras, Grace Hopper, and Alan Turing. Whether you're a maths mastermind, numbers nerd, or completely clueless with calculations, train your brain to come out on top.
This essential ebook explains the basic ideas behind maths, to give young readers greater confidence in their own ability to handle numbers and mathematical problems, and puts the ideas in context to help children understand why maths really is useful and even exciting! Fun, cartoon-style illustrations help introduce the concepts and demystify the maths.
Author(s): DK
Edition: 1
Publisher: DK
Year: 2022
Language: English
Commentary: Vector PDF
Pages: 128
City: London, UK
Tags: Popular Science; Mathematics; Children
CONTENTS
A world of maths
MATHS BRAIN
Meet your brain
Maths skills
Learning maths
Brain vs. machine
Problems with numbers
Early mathematicians
Seeing the solution
INVENTING NUMBERS
Learning to count
Number systems
Big zero
Pythagoras
Thinking outside the box
Number patterns
Calculation tips
Archimedes
Maths and 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 MATHS
Interesting times
Mapping
Grace Hopper
Probability
Displaying data
Logic puzzles and paradoxes
Breaking codes
Codes and ciphers
Alan Turing
Algebra
Brainteasers
Secrets of the Universe
Katherine Johnson
Glossary
Answers
Index
Acknowledgments