What's the Point of Math?

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Math makes the world go around. An educational book that will give you surprising answers to everyday math challenges.

This ebook unpacks how math is an essential part of our everyday life in ways that you never thought of. Full of crazy facts, magic tricks, and mathematical brainteasers and beautiful illustrations show you that math is interesting, fun, and not intimidating at all!

Ever wondered where math originated from? This fantastic educational ebook unpacks all the curious questions that your child has about math including intriguing historical stories that explore the often-surprising origins of math that we use in our daily lives.

Learn about how the formation of number sequences began, to the origins of trigonometry, and find out how to become a trillionaire! Math in our daily lives is used in many things that might not even seem that obvious.

Math Controls Just About Everything

Inspire your children with numbers and help bring mathematical explanations to life with this engaging educational book. Expand their knowledge in the complexity of understanding math by using simple illustrative examples.

To make these topics more exciting and impactful, the ebook is full of great puzzles, awesome games, and interesting facts that will break barriers in their understanding. "Try it out" examples give mathematical explanations that are simple and easy to grasp.

What's The Point Of Math? will not only change your child's perception of numbers but give them the skills and understanding to apply the principles in their everyday life!

This educational ebook explains the point of:

- Numbers and counting
- Shapes and measuring
- Patterns and sequences
- Probability and logic
- Data and statistics

Author(s): DK
Publisher: DK Children
Year: 2020

Language: English
Pages: 128

CONTENTS
What’s the point of math?
WHAT’S THE POINT OF NUMBERS AND COUNTING?
How to track time
How to count with your nose
How to count your cows
How to make nothing a number
How to be negative
How to tax your citizens
How to use proportions
How to know the unknown
WHAT’S THE POINT OF SHAPES AND MEASURING?
How to shape up
How to use symmetry
How to measure a pyramid
How to measure your field
How to measure the Earth
How to get a piece of pi
How to tell the time
How to use coordinates
WHAT’S THE POINT OF PATTERNS AND SEQUENCES?
How to predict a comet
How to become a trillionaire
How to use prime numbers
How to go on forever
How to keep secrets
WHAT’S THE POINT OF DATA AND STATISTICS?
How to impress with a guess
How to catch a cheat
How to estimate the population
How to change the world with data
How to compute big numbers
WHAT’S THE POINT OF PROBABILITY AND LOGIC?
How to plan your journey
How to win a game show
How to escape prison
How to make history
Glossary and answers
Index